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People start writing stories in kindergarten and don’t stop until they finish school, but that doesn’t make most people any less fearful of it. I think that comes from having to write paper after paper in high school and college and being thoroughly critiqued on them. However, just because you got a bad grade on paper doesn’t mean you can’t write for fun. Anyone can write blogs and keeping these three simple tips in mind will help you get started. Write What You Know Writing blogs can be fun, especially if you are writing about things you know about. I...

Upali Sedere writes about education and serves as an advisor to Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education. He notes that online learning is available to children and adults in many areas, but not others. "One section of the population is enjoying online learning, with virtual classrooms, with all kinds of apps, whereas recently the UNESCO indicated a total of 826 million students are kept out of classrooms - and only 43 percent of this number has access to some form of [online] learning today.” The numbers he gives come from the International Task Force on Teachers, also called The Teachers Task...

A teacher greets her students. An imam counsels his congregants. A firefighter reports for duty. New parents take their baby home from the hospital. These are routine moments in the lives of Coloradans. But the coronavirus has transformed the routine into the remarkable, upending how we live and interact with each other.   As a heavy spring snow blanketed the state on Thursday, April 16, journalists from news organizations across Colorado set out to chronicle a day in the life of the state’s residents during this extraordinary time. The Colorado stories of April 16 show how much has changed in such...

When our daughter went off to kindergarten, I essentially stayed behind to become a preschool teacher. I had a lot to learn, of course, I still do, but at the time I was working on the language piece of the technology of treating children like human beings. I was working on changing a lifetime of bad habits, moving away from adult language that treats children as subordinates toward a way of speaking that gives them the respect we all deserve.It wasn't easy. I often came off as stilted and slow as I wrestled with my instincts, working to replace my...

These alphabet activities are perfect for preschool and kindergarten kids exploring early literacy. Learning about letters is more than singing the alphabet song over and over (although that can be fun for a while!). It’s about hands-on activities, manipulating letters, using letters in real and meaningful ways. I put together this collection of alphabet activities to inspire you as you plan to teach your students all about letters. How to Teach the Alphabet to Kindergarten and Preschool Children Let’s start by talking about teaching letters to young children. It’s so very important to focus in on meaningful and engaging activities...