by Hilltop Faculty | Sep 25, 2019 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker, School News, School News News Ticker
Are you living with a tiny person who is exploring a colorful vocabulary? Do you teach or interact with tiny people who like to explore using words that might make the adults around them cringe? Recently I have begun to experience the three-year-old children in my...
by Hilltop Faculty | Aug 15, 2019 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker, School News, School News News Ticker
With summer in full swing, educators in the Rainbow Classroom at Hilltop are gearing up for our biggest transition of the year, when we send our group of now-3-year-olds into their new classrooms. They are ready for this move and it is becoming more apparent with each...
by Hilltop Faculty | Jul 2, 2019 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker, School News, School News News Ticker
This spring I had the opportunity to travel, with a group of colleagues from my graduate program at Portland State University, to Reggio Emilia, Italy to tour the schools. While I have many thoughts to share about my trip, I want to focus on teacher preparation in a...
by Hilltop Faculty | May 30, 2019 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker, School News, School News News Ticker
One of my cherished childhood memories was working on my all-time favorite activity: building forts. I dove into a process of adding several layers of bedsheets combined with a set of mix-and-match chairs, creating an impervious stronghold. There was something really...
by Hilltop Faculty | Apr 7, 2019 | Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker, School News, School News News Ticker
PREFACE:This space has been created for educators, administrators, parents, and youth advocates and attendees of “Creating LGBTQ+ and Gender-Inclusive Schools: A Human Rights Campaign” as a forum for sharing experiences and reflections as they work through...
by Hilltop Faculty | Mar 10, 2019 | Educator Discussion Series Dialogue, Institute Blog, Institute News Ticker, School News, School News News Ticker
PREFACE:This space has been created for educators, administrators, parents, and youth advocates and attendees of “Indigenizing Education: A Discussion of Early Learning in Native America” as a forum for sharing experiences and reflections as they work...
