by Darline Guerrero | Mar 11, 2016 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker
by Sarah Felstiner, Curriculum Director, Hilltop Children’s Center Ouch. When I was starting out in this field, I found it insulting and painful to hear from colleagues, or from families of children in my class, that I “didn’t understand” young...
by Darline Guerrero | Mar 4, 2016 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker
by Bria Bloom, Educator, Hilltop Children’s Center Physical play, or physical endeavors in any form, have long been undervalued. In Seattle schools, educators had to fight to keep policy makers from cutting recess altogether. Studies have been done about the...
by Darline Guerrero | Feb 24, 2016 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker
Should a classroom for young children be provocative? Maybe not in the sense of being risqué or unsettling, but educators in the schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy do hold a notion that the classroom environment itself can offer inspirations and challenges to the...
by Darline Guerrero | Feb 10, 2016 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker
by Jacob Leavitt, Educator, Hilltop Children’s Center I am sitting in Hilltop’s conference room leafing through binders of In-Depth projects from the past two decades. These yearly projects take place in each classroom, with small groups lead by an individual teacher....
by Darline Guerrero | Feb 3, 2016 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker
by Becky Krueger, Educator, Hilltop Children’s Center In my classroom, I used to think of taking a “first group” of children outside at 3:45 as a benefit mainly to the children who remained in the classroom: more time one-on-one with my co-teacher,...
