Provocations for Practitioners

What is the story of your child’s name?
Practice

What is the story of your child’s name?

What is possible at the light table?
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What is possible at the light table?

Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children
Environments and Materials

Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children

  For young children the sensory world is a source of satisfaction, and imagination is the source of exploratory delight.…Read More.
Playful Inquiry in the Early Years: Field Guide
Playful Inquiry
Tools and Publications

Playful Inquiry in the Early Years: Field Guide

Playful Inquiry in the Early Years A Field Guide for Creating Inclusive, Inquisitive and Collaborative School Communities that Learn Together…Read More.
Getting the Lights Right for Dancing
Playful Inquiry

Getting the Lights Right for Dancing

FROM THE OPAL ARCHIVE: 02/2017 – Written by Matt Karlsen, Director of Opal School’s Center for Learning To learn more…Read More.
Is it Playful Inquiry?
Playful Inquiry

Is it Playful Inquiry?

FROM THE OPAL ARCHIVE: 12/2016 – Written by Opal School teacher researcher and pedagogical director Susan Harris MacKay To learn…Read More.
Administrative Observation Tool
Tools and Publications

Administrative Observation Tool

ADMINISTRATIVE OBSERVATION TOOL Many elementary school principals are just beginning to develop their understanding of playful learning and appropriate practices…Read More.