A Recipe for Success: Kids, Dirt, and Gardening
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
6/16/07
On warm spring days, instead of leaving their hearts and minds in the classroom, my students often turned to the outdoors.
Question-Mark Children: Sometimes the Quiet Ones Are the Ones Who Speak the Loudest
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
5/21/07Have there been question-mark children in your teaching life? Certain children have puzzled me. Sometimes they wouldn’t talk; sometimes they would ask questions that were difficult to answer. As I became more experienced as a listener, I realized that these questions were circling around things that were bothering the child, and that they were looking for answers from me.
The Importance of Social and Emotional Learning: How You Can Implement it In Your School
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
4/25/07Like everyone, I was shaken by the massacre last week at Virginia Tech. It is clear that the shooter had severe emotional and mental problems that could have been addressed much earlier.
Misunderstandings About Reading and Media: A Closer Look
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
4/20/07I try to ignore those who don’t believe children should use technology in schools by remembering what it is like to listen to one voice all day, no matter how interesting the person.
A Learning Lab on Wheels: Science Is on a Roll
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
4/20/07Imagine a high tech, state-of-the-art science lab on wheels, one that provides teachers with tools for coordinating school programs and projects and allows them to share with kids the fun and mystery of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
All About African Americans: Black History Month Teaching Resources
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
2/6/07Because of the meager amount of resources about black history available in textbooks and the time that teachers must spend to find them, I am posting some useful links to articles and videos about black history, biographies of influential black people, and related information.
Feeding the Equity Pipeline: The Joint Educational Facilities Program
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
9/28/06I noticed Dr. Jesse Bemley at conferences, but I was not sure who he is and what he does until this summer. When I was finally introduced to him, I found him to be a soft-spoken man but one with a can-do personality.
Scratching the Surface of Creativity: Educational Tools on the Web Can Help
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
9/19/06You always hear people talk about innovation and education and getting kids interested in thinking differently, in thinking about ways to innovate. I am always on the hunt for new ways to facilitate this kind of learning through creativity and problem solving in what I call "hard" play.
Technology: You Go, Girl!
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
9/6/06The Center for Excellence and Equity in Education (CEEE) seeks to promote greater participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences and to encourage academic excellence for all. It's where I learned lots of ways to use technology to interest my students -- girls in particular.
The Global Teenager Project: Promoting Worldwide Education Through Technology
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
8/28/06Several years ago, I was in Africa with teachers from places that were just pinpoints on the globe to me. There were participants from Argentina, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Latvia, Macedonia, Madagascar, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Romania, South Africa, Ukraine, and more.
