policy
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October themes for classrooms that don’t celebrate Halloween
I love holidays and celebrating them in the classroom, but there are many completely valid reasons for not incorporating these into your lesson plans. When it comes to Halloween there can be religious considerations, cultural implications, and economic concerns. Every school has it’s own policy, but if you don’t celebrate holidays in the classroom it can be a real challenge to look for new lesson plan ideas and only find the ubiquitous Halloween ideas. I have a list of 35 fall themes that can be a great starting point for your planning, but these few October themes fit closely enough to Halloween that you can use many of the Halloween…
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A cause worth believing in
Other than advocating for my favorite teaching philosophies, I don’t generally get political here – don’t worry I’m not about to. I just wanted to take a quick minute to recognize that election day is coming up and I for one am most interested in what all of the candidates have to say about Early Childhood Education Policy and Funding. While the presidential election is important, don’t forget about local races too, state representatives and senators have a lot of influence on state budgets, and local school levies impact our children too. While I’m not advocating for any specific candidate (I promise I will never ever do that here), I…
