by tjohnston | May 17, 2016 | Helpful Resources, Sharing Ideas and Practice, Social-Emotional Learning, With Administrators in Mind
What has been the impact in kindergarten classrooms of good implementation of the following new initiatives and tools in Massachusetts? Elements of High Quality Kindergarten document Observational formative assessment Social Emotional Learning and Play and Learning...
by tjohnston | Apr 22, 2016 | Sharing Ideas and Practice, Social-Emotional Learning
By Kim Davenport, MKEA Regional Coordinator, Central Region A Worcester Kindergarten teacher recently shared an update on her use of Storytelling-Story Acting. In her classroom of 28 students 22 were identified as DLLs at the beginning of the school year. She began...
by tjohnston | Apr 4, 2016 | Sharing Ideas and Practice, Social-Emotional Learning
By Kim Davenport, MKEA Regional Coordinator for the Central Region At a January DESE conference on Early Literacy, the Boston Public School Early Childhood Department shared aspects of their K2 Focus on Literacy curriculum. It is an empowering, project-based...
by tjohnston | Mar 23, 2016 | Social-Emotional Learning
By Kim Davenport, MKEA Regional Coordinator for the Central Region Transitions are all around us. As educators we focus on transitions for children – keeping to schedules, shifting across curriculum topics, and transitioning to snack, lunch, recess, specials…and...
by tjohnston | Mar 23, 2016 | Sharing Ideas and Practice, Social-Emotional Learning
By Kay Lisseck, MKEA Regional Coordinator, Pioneer Valley Region With a focus on social-emotional learning, the latest annual report from the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy points to “an increasing — and convincing — body of evidence”...
