In the spring of 2017, Senior Kindergarten teachers, Linda Krulock and Claire Norman, began a new unit of exploration. Three young students had expressed an interest in movement, specifically movement from two-wheeled vehicles… ‘How did they keep from falling over?’ ‘Can they do a loop-the-loop?’ ‘Why are old bikes so hard to peddle?’ These questions...Read More

In the fall of 2012, we began noticing an alarming trend among a subsection of students at Wheeling Country Day School. Despite our best intentions and our willingness to adjust or omit outdated classroom practices, some students just seemed unable to keep up with even the most foundational linguistic concepts. It’s an age-old issue in...Read More