- Nov 6, 2013
No More Time Outs
Published in ChicagoNow, November 6, 2013 (Photo by Marco Nedermeijer) My 4-year-old grandson who lives in another state wondered when...
- Oct 25, 2013
Mister Rogers, Doctor Seuss, & Tests
Published ChicagoNow, October 25, 2013 A friend of mine who trains Chicago public elementary school teachers how to teach reading was...
- Oct 23, 2013
Too Much Standardized Testing
Published in ChicagoNow, October 23, 2013 In a letter to President Obama dated October 22, 2013, top children’s authors and illustrators...
- Oct 23, 2013
No child left behind, or leave no child behind - a big difference
Published in ChicagoNow, October 23, 2013 Most of this post was printed in the Cherry Preschool newsletter in January of 2006, but it...
- Oct 21, 2013
Getting Ready for Kindergarten
Published in ChicagoNew, October 21, 2013 My four-year-old grandson will be one of the youngest boys in next year’s kindergarten class. ...
- Oct 14, 2013
Good Teaching is Not a Mathematical Formula
Published in ChicagoNow, October 14, 2013 After being a teacher for seven years and supervising teachers for 25 years, I still firmly...
- Oct 4, 2013
Parents Need to Advocate for Children in our Schools
Published in ChicagoNow, October 4, 2013 I often gave a presentation to parents of children about to enter kindergarten that straddled...
- Oct 2, 2013
Kindergarten Class of 2014: Color Outside Those Lines!
Published in ChicagoNow, October 2, 2013 The nation’s five-year-olds filed into their schools for the first time last month, their faces...