This is What Classroom Management Looks Like in a Play-Based Setting

That's a Lot to Lose in the Name of Arbitrary Adult Control

Spoiling What Should Be Our Greatest Pleasures

I met this four-year-old boy because he had been forced to leave his previous preschool. Apparently, he had taken to hitting, biting, kicking, & otherwise abusing the adults around him. . .Classroom Management Based on Helping Children Get Their Needs Met

I'm excited to announce that registration is open for my brand new 6-part course -- Controlled Chaos: Teacher Tom's Guide to Classroom Management . . . Controlled Chaos: Teacher Tom's Guide to Classroom Management

"The Entire Purpose of the Brain is to Make Efficient Movement from Experience"

"The Entire Purpose of the Brain is to Make Efficient Movement from Experience"

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" ~Albert Einstein . . . That's a Lot to Lose in the Name of Arbitrary Adult Control

I met this 4-year-old boy because he had been forced to leave his previous preschool. Apparently, he had taken to hitting, biting, kicking, & otherwise abusing the adults around him . . . Classroom Management Based on Helping Children Get Their Needs Met

I'm excited to announce that registration is open for my brand new 6-part course -- Controlled Chaos: Teacher Tom's Guide to Classroom Management. . . . Controlled Chaos: Teacher Tom's Guide to Classroom Management

Spoiling What Should Be Our Greatest Pleasures

This is our "unlimited power" and it's why a proper education must be driven by curiosity and led by the senses, all the senses. . . . Unleashing Our "Unlimited Power"

Making makes meaning. Making makes something, anything, matter. . . . Making Makes Meaning

I once knew a two-year-old who was terrified of pinecones. In nearly every other circumstance, he was a bold, confident child, but when he spied a pinecone he froze in fear. . . . Racing Heart, Sweaty Palms, Tense Muscles

Maybe we shouldn't be preparing our children for anything, but rather give them permission to live the life they are prepared for right now. . . As a Man Who Can See the Future

It's always useful to learn about a child's collections. This is where we see their passion. In a play-based environment, we see this urge to collect as part & parcel with the urge to go more deeply into a subject, any subject. . . A Theory of Collecting

This is our "unlimited power" and it's why a proper education must be driven by curiosity and lead by the senses, all the senses. . . Unleashing Our "Unlimited Power"

Making makes meaning. Making makes something, anything, matter . . . Making Makes Meaning

Racing Heart, Sweaty Palms, Tense Muscles

Maybe we shouldn't be preparing our children for anything, but rather give them permission to live the life they are prepared for right now. . . As a Man Who Can See the Future