The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
An ad for a forthcoming product crossed my MyFace stream today and I am grateful for the number of competing issues it caused me to …
The world lost a giant of an educator on July 26th when Vivian Paley passed away at age 90. Paley was the only kindergarten teacher …
I became a pre-k through 8th grade teacher in the mid-1980s. I was literally in the last teacher education cohort who was expected to learn …
On Christmas Eve (2016), the world lost one of its most profound thinkers when learning theorist, Dr. Edith Ackermann, left us at age 70. Anyone …
There are aspects of the “art of teaching” I have long taken for granted, but are apparently no longer taught in preservice education programs. Classroom …
As far too many American schools become obsessed with time-on-task, achievement, and beating the rest of the world in long division, play, recess, and even …
Four out of five kindergarteners agree. . Foam blocks suck. Gary StagerVeteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do …
You know it’s a good day when UPS delivers a new book by legendary school leader, reformer and Constructing Modern Knowledge guest speaker, Deborah Meier! …
It’s Superbowl Sunday (Go Saints!) and I just saw the first of what will undoubtedly be many public service announcements for Play 60, the NFL’s …