A BULLDOG’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY
Doesn’t it seem like we can’t talk about anything these days without it getting political? Everything is so fraught. You’re either on our side or their side. You’re either liberal or you’re conservative. Democrat or Republican. Black lives or Blue lives. These...
HOW CAN SCHOOLS CULTIVATE CARING AND A COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE IN CHILDREN?
DR. RICHARD WEISSBOURD, FACULTY DIRECTOR & SENIOR LECTURER Richard Weissbourd is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he co-directs the Human Development and Psychology Program, and the Kennedy School of Government. His work focuses...
Exploring Rhythm and Melody in Early Childhood
In this age of Zoom, it is perhaps the greatest sadness for music teachers to not be able to hear their classes sing as a group. Technical sound lags and a platform geared towards projecting one voice at a time combine to make sing-alongs frustrating and...
The Rights of Spring in Preschool-3
In Preschool-3, one part of our distance learning program has been the fun-and-learn sharing of the marvels of faunal and floral transformations that unfold in forests and woodlands in spring. We began with a look at trees and how they burst from bare twigs and...
That’s “ARRAY”zing!
Through the distance learning process, the first graders have been working diligently in their math groups. Their creativity truly sparked during our multiplication unit of study. The first graders are familiar with the idea of grouping items to make them easier to...
Virtual Field Trip to Neon Art Studio
StringJam Virtual Concert
“Happy” at D-E!
Spotlight on… Ken Yan ’19
Ken Yan ’19 showing his 3D printer ‘in action’
Write Night Featurette
Despite a pandemic, one of the core traditions of the English department, Write Night, was held over Zoom this past April 2021. Founded by former English chair, Fred Daly, Write Night has been a special community gathering for students and faculty to share original writing and poetry twice a year since 2012. The spring Write Night is hosted in April in honor of National Poetry Month. Especially in these unprecedented times, Write Night is a reminder of poetry’s power to reflect on the past, imagine new futures, and hold space for the present.