11 Picture Books That Live In My Heart
Like play, children use pictures books to make sense of the world around them. To give voice to the feelings and experiences they cannot yet articulate. At 43, I still use picture books this way....
Nurturing A Love Of Reading In The Preschool Classroom
One of my very first teaching mentors began the first day of school, with her kindergartners, with this message… She started out by asking her students to raise their hand if they knew how to read....
Material Matters
“The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.” — Caroline Pratt, progressive education reformer &...
The Teacher and Bixby’s Rubric of Student Growth
As rubric season comes to a close at Bixby, I’ve been reflecting on the experience of writing these reports. For many years the rubric has been a Bixby hallmark. It is actually a trademarked...