Kids, Dirt, and Gardening: A Recipe for Success

By Bonnie Bracey Sutton

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

Have 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

By Bonnie Bracey Sutton

Like 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

I 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.

I like what Henry Jenkins, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Comparative Media Studies Program, says about what turns kids on and how he sees the various technology gaps -- not just the digital divide or the knowledge divide, but the huge differences in the lives of those who do have access to technology and those who don’t.

A Learning Lab on Wheels: Science Is on a Roll

By Bonnie Bracey Sutton

Imagine 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).

Imagine the look on children's faces as they are introduced to this rolling resource in the parking lot of their neighborhood school.

All About African Americans: Black History Month Teaching Resources

By Bonnie Bracey Sutton

Because 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

I 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

Scratching the Surface of Creativity: Educational Tools on the Web Can Help

By Bonnie Bracey Sutton

You always hear people talk about innovation and education and getting kids interested in thinking differently, in thinking about ways to innovate

Technology: You Go, Girl!

By Bonnie Bracey Sutton

The Center for Excellence and Equity in Education (CEEE) seeks to promote greater participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences

The Global Teenager Project

By Bonnie Bracey Sutton

Several 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