Talking Race With Young Children It is never too early to have conversations with your children about race, this link is a great resource with an NPR recording and a link to a TEDx talk by Beverly Daniel Tatum, who wrote, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race.
Montessori Matters
Book Corner! Two great reads…
Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World by Madeline Levine,PhD This is a must-read for parents who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or just curious about how best to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future. By exploring our parenting techniques and our myopic educational system, Levine offers not just… Read More »
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
“I think it’s important to say that we know what the solutions look like [in education]. This isn’t like curing cancer, where we just don’t know and we’re thrashing around. There are great schools everywhere that are achieving high results. If you want just one example, the Montessori system.” -Sir Ken Robinson Do schools kill… Read More »