A couple days ago, I spent the morning with several other parents at my kids’ school, helping the Elementary II and Middle School switch rooms. The kids did a huge amount of work. I kept seeing things that made me feel so grateful to be part of that community. It started with spotting one of my all-time favorite books lying on top of a pile of science texts. Seeing Dr. Williams’s poems on the biology and chemistry books made me happy. While I scuttled to get my phone, somebody moved it to join the language arts books. But still. No one's tying him down.
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| 1. WCW is in the room. |
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| 2. There's knitting lying around on the floor. It's no big deal. |
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| 3. There's beauty everywhere. |
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| 4. Boys mess with pretty stuff, too. |
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| 5. Instead of drab texts, they use books a person actually wants to look at. |
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| 6. They walk the walk. |
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| 7. Kids understand the logic of their environment so completely that they were able to set the room up pretty much independently. |
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| 8. Crayon colors are stored with their complements, so you can really see them. |
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| 9. There's no uniform. |
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| 10. They provide necessary instruction. |
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