I was at ExpoMom last Saturday and bumped into an old friend. When we got to talk about what I do, she told me that her fourth grader who...

It’s the calm after the storm. The Philippines has been ravaged by Storm Ondoy/Ketsana and Storm Pepeng/Parma. Statistics show that...

My youngest sister didn’t attend preschool. She was the youngest of 5 kids and my parents were, honestly, just too tired and old(er) to...

Activity Time usually follows the first Circle Time. It is the climax of the temporal environment. Activity Time is planned. When...

Tanya! Congratulations on your new Moleskine Notebook!

I am again the guest of Sonshine Radio DZAR 1026 AM on Thursday, August 20, from 10-11 am. The topic is Teaching Children Respect. Can...

I came across this article in Yahoo this morning that prompted me to write a new post after a month of managing the overwhelming response...

To make up for my absence, I’m posting this inspirational documentary about a 4th grade class in Japan. It focuses on their Notebook...

I was invited to be a resource person by Sonshine Radio DZAR 1026 AM on the topic “How to choose the right television shows for children”...

I was browsing through Alfie Kohn’s article about Progressive Education and revisited the concept of Active Learning vs. Memorization....

I was reading the thesis of a friend and a regular reader of this blog, Teacher Tanya, and she reminded me of the essence of progressive...

This is a classic question. We usually hear this question from parents who are opting for a progressive preschool and are planning to...

These past few weeks taught me a few hard lessons. I realized that not only should a parent choose a school for the wrong reasons, a...

When I look at the votes in our poll recently, I noticed that a lot of our readers are parents. Well, parents, this may be a difficult...

One of our readers, Mommy Nikka, sent me this video of Ken Robinson, a creativity expert advocating REAL learning in schools… Listen to...

After Free Play, the teacher calls everyone in a progressive preschool class to sit together, usually in front of the blackboard for...

One of the most vivid parent inquiry I handled was when the parent asked to meet the teacher who will be handling her son’s class in the...

We have discussed the school’s learning environment, but let’s discuss it in the parent’s persepective in looking for a school for their...

There are only 3 kinds of schools — Traditional, Montessori and Progressive. You first have to determine the kind of school that you feel...

It’s January and it’s school scouting season for most parents. Most of the parenting forums I’ve scanned these past weeks are all talking...