Category: Teaching

Brian’s learning story

Posted by Sunflower Creative Arts | Respect for the Individual, School Age Children, Teaching

A teacher shares a beautiful example of child-led, community-based learning (the kind we believe in at Sunflower!) in a more traditional classroom setting.

The Possibility of Something Really Important Happening

Posted by Susan Caruso | Respect for the Individual, Teaching, Things Children Teach Us

It’s always there– A tiny spark, and a space opens up. The idea bubbles, it gains momentum and cracks wide open.

“My teacher has a worm!”

Posted by Sunflower Creative Arts | Learning Through Experience, School Age Children, Teaching

by Leslie Cooper, teacher Saint Andrew’s School, Boca Raton After 25 years of teaching four-...

A Little Nonsense Now and Then…

Posted by Jonathan Iris-Wilbanks, AMFT, CCLS | Adventures with preschoolers, Teaching

This morning at Seedlings I bit a tree. I bit the tree branch for a few minutes, and it...

Experiencing Risk

Posted by Jonathan Iris-Wilbanks, AMFT, CCLS | Learning Through Experience, Play, Risk, Teaching

To seven-year-old Jonathan it was the edge of the world. To everyone else at the Coral Springs...

Barriers.

Posted by Jonathan Iris-Wilbanks, AMFT, CCLS | Art, Communication, Learning Through Experience, Teaching

About a year and a half ago I stood before a group of 20 fourth graders, tasked with teaching the...