Taking Care of Bixby
There is work to be done at Bixby! Recycling needs to be put out, the lunchroom needs to be set up…and don’t forget to get it all cleaned up and…
Group Time At Bixby School
Morning Group Time is an important part of the day at Bixby. Meeting together as individual grades gives students a significant anchor at our school. Group Time becomes a safe…
Cultivating Critical Thinking At Bridgewalk Pond
Children cultivate critical thinking skills when they closely observe their surroundings and record what they notice. So every Monday, the kindergarteners walk to a local wetland area called Bridgewalk…
Nurturing Wild Readers and the 40 Book Challenge
Though we hope books travel with students wherever they may go, within and beyond the walls of Bixby, the literature classroom is our reading home for the year. Within these…
Discovering Boulder’s Bridgewalk Pond
Last week Emily and I had the wonderful opportunity to take a group of Preschoolers on a walk to Bridgewalk Pond during group time. It was a beautiful fall day…
Building Classroom Environment – 3rd Grade Interviews
The beginning of the school year is filled with excitement and transition. Schedules are being learned, routines are being established, and different expectations are being outlined for the various classrooms.…
Science Hopes and Dreams
If you’re near the downstairs island, look for a bulletin board titled “Science Hopes and Dreams.” It’s filled with quotes from our 1st-through-5th grade science students, articulating what they’d like…
Time For A Snack!
Children work hard in school everyday. Teachers care deeply about academics, but they are also concerned with making sure that students are doing well emotionally, socially and physically. Abraham…
Welcome to the new school year from Bixby’s Director of Admissions.
The start of a new school year is an exciting time for all of us. As our children are navigating new classes, new grades and possibly new friends at a…
Back to School
No matter how many times I’ve done this (and the years are certainly adding up), I experience equal measures of excitement and nervousness as I enter each new school year.…
Welcome Back Bixby Preschoolers!
The preschool program had an amazing first week back to school! It was so wonderful to see all our smiling classmates and families once again. Our new students who…
Welcome To Our 2016-17 School Year
We are off to a great start in our 46th year of continuous service to our Boulder community. I am delighted the board of trustees asked me to stay on…
If you want to be a better teacher, take some time to be a student.
Every time I’ve stepped back into the world of being a student in one form and another over the last few decades, my empathy for other students has increased considerably.…
Child’s Play Is About More than Games
Summer is a wonderful time to kick off the shoes, find a friend, or ten, and invent your own world. What are the kinds of things that happen internally and…
Bixby School’s 99 Ways To Play With Kids This Summer!
Now, set aside school, work and stress; it's time to focus on 99 ways to play with kids this summer! Build a toy car racetrack out of old boxes, paper…
Izze for Izzi
4th and 5th graders have a tradition in math every spring. After spring break, when spring fever is high, it can be difficult to keep students engaged, learning and having…
Science Assessments The Bixby Way
This time of year, end-of-year reports lead me to a careful examination of my own assessment practices. What have students learned, how do I know they learned it, and how…
The Interest Study
The interest study is a time-tested, time-honored Bixby writing tradition. Essentially research papers, interest studies give students the opportunity to dive deep into personally captivating topics. The process is more…
Nurturing A Bixby Community Across All Grades
One of the things I love about working with preschoolers is that I get to teach in a multi-age classroom with children from two and a half to five years…
The Tricky Month of May
I could make a case for how each month of the school year has its own particular and considerable challenges, but right now May and the approaching end of the…
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