| Tagline | This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making. |
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day 3
This morning I have a helper teaching my kindergarten class at the Clear Spring School and I begin my third day of box making class at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts. My students there are maki
1 day ago
Investing in investigation.
A Stanford study has determined that high school students lack the digital skills to spot fake news. Adults suffer from the same malady, but I question whether the skills lacking are digital ones, or
3 days ago
Kids need dirt and danger?
A reader, Lisa, sent this link to an article in the Atlantic, "Kids need dirt and danger." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/malka-haas-kibbutz-kindergarten-junkyard/619204/ It is a g
3 days ago
returned to print
I learned yesterday that 2 of my books that F&W Publishing had allowed to go out of print before their bankruptcy and before the book rights were bought by Penguin Random House, have been brought back
5 days ago
family style education
An interesting article about a return to the one room schoolhouse ideal for American education has been circulating through the Clear Spring School community, as we have embarked on our own path in th
5 days ago