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Teaching Kindergarten – What Not to Do

My girlfriend is a substitute teacher and before that she was a college student. I spent a lot of time in a variety of Kindergartens: rural, urban, and suburban; first of all the affluent and especially the weak; well-equipped schools and financially struggling schools; multi-level and single level; inclusive and typical. She has witnessed manykindergarten-teacher”>used […]

Takeaways from Our First Parent-Teacher Conference

Our son recently started kindergarten and we just had the opportunity to partake in our first parent-teacher conference. It was a meeting that we were looking forward to, and since our son had no pre-school prior to starting kindergarten, we wanted the meeting to be as constructive and informative as possible. With just 20 minutes […]

Kindergarten Options in Ohio

The last time it happened I was in line at a closeout store. My four-year-old had taken up a conversation with the older woman behind us, which was not an uncommon thing for my social butterfly. “How old are you?” the woman asked. Heidi stuck four fingers up. “I’m going to school tomorrow,” she announced […]