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Career Ready Kindergarten
An argument against the push toward academic, career-focused kindergarten programs and in favor of play-based early childhood education.
2019 »
A Playground Should Have A Pulse
A case for reclaiming free, risky, rule-light play in schools as essential to children's learning, wellbeing, and healthy development.
2019 »
A Year of Mathematical Freedom
As a student, mathematics was a confusion of disjointed concepts to be memorised from page upon page of joyless, sterile and seemingly endless textbook problems. It was about speed and rules and conformity.
2019 »
Being That Teacher: Shifting Towards Student-Centred Learning
As teachers, it seems the system measures us by the “success” (see standardised test scores) our students achieve while in our care, but perhaps the truest measure of an educator should be defined by the number of options our past students have available at age 30.
2018