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Phone-free Schools Address Global Problem
October 17, 2023
Nothing has impacted the appearance of the picturesque campus that lies along French Creek in the historic district of Kimberton Village. Instead, it was a change the school felt was necessary to make to its technology landscape after its governance identified an increasing concern over the grip that cellphone usage was having on students nationally, and the impact this was beginning to have on their own school environment. This resulted in KWS deciding to make the entire school cellphone and smartwatch free during the school day. More »
The Girl Inside the Raindrop
October 2, 2023
One of the gifts of working at a Waldorf school is sifting through the leavings of the children. Perhaps once a week I stumble upon a drawing of some sort—under a bench in the auditorium, wet in the grass on the field—that makes me pause. Waldorf drawings tend to be of the same kidney: lots of dragons; lots of fairies under mushrooms; lots of knights upon steeds. Here at The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara I keep a collection of favorite discards in a drawer in my desk: a portrait of “Jefe Grande,” the “trick pony” who is “77,711 years old”; a note that reads: “This orange juice is from the orange tree. It was made at 7:53. I made it.”; a hand-drawn campus advertisement done in crayons for the play “Shepherds, Giants, and Kings: Stories from the Old Testament”: blue Nile, basket made of reeds, thick bulrushes. But my favorite discard is right here framed atop my desk, a delicate colored-pencil drawing I found half-crumpled in the trash enclosure. So beautiful is the image that it sometimes puts prickles on the back of my neck. More »
‘The Bosklas’: A Steiner Forest School Kindergarten
September 25, 2023
During my training in Holistic Early Years Education, I had the blessing to land at the Steiner School in Bruges, Belgium where I did my placement and stayed volunteering for over a year. Amongst a group of wonderful teachers was Trees Sirens who runs the Forest Class Kindergarten: a group of 22 children aged 4-7. With my background in farming and passion for outdoor education, I immediately connected with her teaching style and started assisting her classroom regularly where I learned invaluable lessons from this extraordinarily inspiring woman that I wish to share with you to hopefully encourage more outdoor classrooms experiences as I am deeply convinced that this is the future for Early Years Education. More »
I’m a child psychologist in the Netherlands, home to the world’s happiest kids—6 things parents here never do
September 18, 2023
As a Dutch child psychologist who works with families in the Netherlands, I’ve observed a number of different parenting styles across many cultures. While each approach has its benefits, Dutch kids are consistently ranked as the happiest in the world. This had me thinking about we do differently here to raise happier and more resilient children. Based on my research as a psychologist and experience raising two young daughters, here are six things Dutch parents never do: More »
My fight to get screens out of schools
September 11, 2023
It was gratifying to see the recent Unesco report recommending moderation on the topic of tech in the classroom. I do hope the Department for Education, Ofsted and every school head in the country has read it. Britain seems to have submitted to the tidal wave of digital learning without so much as a minnow of doubt. The switch to online lessons during the lockdowns should have been temporary, an emergency measure – not something we then accepted wholesale. Personally, I find the sight of 26 bright faces glued to 26 bright screens for lesson after lesson indefensible. The argument that these platforms are ‘adaptive’ is unpersuasive – a good teacher is adaptive. Multiple teachers have been very candid with me about the failure of tech in the classroom. Rachael G, an assistant principal from a school in Hackney, east London, saw first-hand the damage caused by giving every child an iPad in her previous school. More »
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