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For those of us who live alone, or just live for a little alone time with our favorite cup of coffee and a crossword puzzle, the huge capacity of presses or drip brewers does nothing for us. You're not a loner, you just prefer a little solitude and don't want to deal with storing the huge amounts made by a standard coffee machine. These single-serving brewers are here to answer your challenge!
Choose from pour-overs, cold brewing systems, or even handy stovetop pots for simple, small batches coffee.
Jura ENA Micro 1 Automatic Coffee CenterThe Jura ENA Micro 1 Automatic Coffee Center is tiny but mighty, delivering a gourmet cup of espresso or coffee with an ultra-compact footprint. Unlike many single cup brewers on the market, the ENA Micro 1 delivers a true bean-to-cup experience by grinding fresh beans right before brewing, eliminating the need for capsules or pods. The intuitive touchscreen interface is simple to operate, allowing you to program three cup sizes and select from two dosage levels depending on how strong you'd like your cup. Learn More
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Bonavita Porcelain Pour Over Coffee Dripper StandThe new Bonavita Porcelain Pour Over Coffee Dripper Stand matches the Bonavita V-Style Drippers and the Immersion Dripper for a matched set. It looks like molecular gastronomy in action, and that is half the fun! Brew a perfect pour over with less muss and less fuss. Grab a Bonavita Variable Temperature Gooseneck Kettle and start experimenting with coffee. Learn More$49.99
Saeco Minuto Automatic Espresso Machine & Coffee MakerYou can't help but think of KITT (if you don't get that reference, you didn't watch enough television in the 80's) when you see the Minuto, but there's a reason for that...It manages to be a superautomatic espresso machine and coffee maker, without sacrificing anything for either option. Learn More$749.00
Capresso On-the-Go Personal Coffee MakerDon't let the craziness of life stop you from brewing a tasty cup of joe! Take it to go, with Capresso's On-the-Go Personal Coffee Maker. This convenient brewer lets you call the shots, by letting you decide what to brew. Indulge your taste buds with a cup brewed from freshly ground beans, or simply brew your favorite pre-ground blend or soft coffee pods. This sleek and slim personal coffee maker also includes a 16-ounce stainless steel thermal travel mug that fits perfectly beneath the brew head. Learn More
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Nespresso Pixie Espresso Capsule MachineNespresso has done it again, but taken its machines to another level with the idea in mind that smaller is always better. What Nespresso is calling a miniature version from its first round of popular Nespressos, the Pixie sits nine inches tall and allows you to fit cups for your favorite type of caffeinated drinks — espresso, lungo, lattes, macchiatos — to fit underneath its spout. Not only small but energy saving too, this machine will switch off after nine minutes, has a 40 percent lower power consumption than other machines and its heating time has been reduced to 25 seconds. Learn More$229.00
Hario Drip PotThe Hario Drip Pot has dramatically altered the single-serving drip coffee process, eliminating the mess and stress of balancing your dripper over your cup. Learn More$40.00
Breville YouBrew Coffee Maker with Glass CarafeThe product of over 5 years of dedicated coffee loving research, the Breville YouBrew Coffee Maker with Glass Carafe will satisfy all of your coffee crazvings. Is it a 12-cup carafe kind of morning? No problem. Prefer to just have a single cup? Your YouBrew's built-in grinder freshly grinds beans according to selected brew strength, flavor profile and, of course, size of cup. Learn More$199.99
Nespresso U Espresso Capsule Machine
So easy, anyone can do it! The Nespresso U Espresso Capsule machine has features that all kinds of coffee drinkers have come to know and love. It is simple to insert the capsule of your choice into the machine. The Nespresso U takes over from there doing all of the hard work. It automatically punctures the capsule and uses 19 BARS of pressure to extract and release the perfect shot. Optimum flow and distribution of the water through the pre-packed capsule ensures consistency and deliciousness in every cup.Learn More
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Capresso Coffee a la Carte Coffee & Tea MakerSmart technology and programmability allows the Capresso Coffee a La Carte to brew to your specifications. This new coffee maker can whip up one prefect cup of java or a whole pot of coffee just as easily. No need to have a one cup capsule machine along with a high capacity coffee maker taking up counter space when the Capresso Coffee a la Carte can do both jobs. Use your own fresh coffee or tea and select how strong and how much, like a genie in a bottle, the machine grants your wishes. Learn More
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Bonavita Electronic Scale and Dripper StandIntensity in ten cities! Bonavita has gone gonzo over the perfect pour over with their new product the Electronic Scale and Dripper Stand. Super water resistant with a sealed casing for fearless flow. It pairs beautifully with a Bonavita V-style Dripper and a Bonavita Variable Temperature Gooseneck Kettle. Put on your apron and lab goggles, it is time to let loose your inner mad (coffee) scientist! Learn More$109.99


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Located on Scenic Highway 12, 50 miles East of Bryce Canyon National Park.
The Escalante Outfitters is charming rustic cabins, with a central shower house, or camping in our xeriscape campground. Pet friendly, camping, hot showers, and outdoor cooking pavilion.
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|Fly fishing guide service – come discover the wide array of fish and waters the area has to offer. Always wanted to learn how to fish? We enjoy fishing with beginners and seasoned experts.
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The Hennepin County Courthouse, located in the Hennepin County Government Center, was completed in 1974. It was designed by John Carl Warnecke and Associates of San Francisco, with Peterson, Clark and Associates of Minneapolis. The masonry is the same carnelian red granite from Ortonville, MN, that was used in building the Minneapolis City Hall, where the courthouse used to be located. The diagonal braces of the modern building are steel sprayed with a fireproofing material to which a cream-colored porcelain-type material was fused.
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It's hard to replace a player who had such an impact on a team.
Yet Jacksonville senior goalkeeper Zach McCracken has done just that, taking over for Holland Hammond, who graduated last year after becoming the area's best goalie.
And now the 17-year-old McCracken finds himself as the starter in net when the Cardinals (25-1) battle Hickory (27-1) on Saturday in the NCHSAA 3-A championship game at the Dail Soccer Stadium at N.C. State University.
Kickoff is 5:05 p.m.
"I think it's a really great honor," McCracken said of making the title game. "We have been working so hard."
Last year, McCracken was a back up to Hammond, a versatile goalkeeper with the ability to make clutch saves, communicate with the defense and come out of the box to kick the ball away from danger. Those abilities led Hammond to earn all-state honors as well as be named The Daily News defensive player of the year last year.
But Hammond graduated, leaving a big hole between the pipes for Jacksonville.
The Cardinals have typically had some of the area's best goalies, but there were questions early in the season if McCracken could step in and follow in that lineage. He's proven that he could by having a 0.82 goals against average and recording 9 shutouts for Jacksonville, which is in the championship game for the fourth time since 2005 — the only year the Cardinals have won the title.
"I put pressure on myself by thinking, 'Hey, this is a team that's had a great goalkeeper in the past and I need to step up and help in the same way,'" McCracken said.
But by doing just that, McCracken has gained the respect and confidence from his teammates who know he's reliable in the back.
"I'm very impressed," senior defender Blake Heatherly said. "He puts the time out here, he tries his heart out and I'm proud of him."
Senior midfielder Aaron Sparks agreed.
"Zach has been a good asset to this team," he said. "I think at the beginning of the season people probably said, 'Oh, he's not going to be as good as Holland,' but I think he's really stepped up."
McCracken's teammates as well as coach Dave Miller pointed out that McCracken's clutch play Tuesday night in a 6-2 win over two-time defending state champion Cardinal Gibbons was a sign of the goalkeeper's continued solid play.
McCracken ended with 8 saves, some coming when the match was still close.
"Oh, he's been huge. He's come up with big saves when we've needed him to," Miller said. "In the first 10 minutes against Cardinal Gibbons, he made 3 key saves. And against White Oak he had a save on a 1v1 early in that game. It's impressive seeing him in games and stopping some of the shots he's stopping."
But while McCracken has shown he's capable of being the man in goal, he did mention there are some differences in his game compared to Hammond, who is now playing at Appalachian State University.
"Holland played a completely different game than I do. He was a lot more aggressive, always very confident off his line and he always knew he could win a ball," McCracken said. "I'm more cautious than he was. I'll come off my line if I'm relatively sure that I'll get the ball, where he would come off his line for any ball."
McCracken's game may be different, but that's just fine with him. He understands what the Cardinals need from him is stability and simple play.
"I just think as long as I keep playing my game and make myself better, then I'll be fine," McCracken said.
Another thing McCracken provides the Cardinals is a fifth defender.
Under Miller, Jacksonville utilizes its goalie more than other teams in that the Cardinals will often drop the ball back to its goalkeeper so that he can clear it away from the defensive side of the field. It's a dangerous strategy but something Jacksonville has always done.
"We knew he could do it," said senior defender Cormick Brennan, adding McCracken has been his goalkeeper while both came up through the ranks. "It was just a matter of when he was confident having the ball played back."
That was just one thing McCracken focused on trying to improve during the offseason and into the preseason. He realized he had to improve his fundamentals if he was to become the starter.
McCracken and junior Joe Davis battled up until the regular season for the position. McCracken said that competition made him a better player because he had to focus on improving.
"I was thinking that I had to work as hard as I could to make sure I get the spot I wanted," McCracken said. "I knew very well he (Miller) may choose Joe over me because he's a good goalkeeper. I'll admit I was a little nervous, but I think the competition was good for me because it made me a lot better than I would have been if he hadn't been there."
It also didn't hurt McCracken having to stop shots from his talented teammates in practice.
"With people being able to take shots from anywhere on the field in practice, you kind of get used to the mentality of always being on your toes," McCracken said. "You have to be ready to make a save."
And the Cardinals are confident McCracken can do that Saturday against Hickory, which has scored at least 3 goals in 20 games this season.
"Honestly, Zach has been the man," Brennan said. "He's been solid in goal."


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Teacher research is increasingly recognized nationally and internationally as a critical part of early childhood professional development and noted for its role in advancing knowledge about teaching and learning. This section of Voices of Practitioners highlights the wide range of early childhood teacher research initiatives and inquiry communities through brief summaries. They include contact infroamtion for educators interested in learning more about specific project goals and methods. Action and Reflections is an ongoing series in which we will post new projects as we receive them.
To submit a summary of your teacher research community of practice, contact Gail Perry, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Read about the teacher research projects below, all excellent examples of recent and ongoing communities of practice.
Toward the Horizon: The Legacy of Progress in Early Childhood Education, Heather Posner
Cape Cod Early Childhood Teacher Research Group, Holly Bryant, Heidi Ingram, and Debra Murphy
Inquiry into Languages, Literacies, and Identities with(in) a Diverse School District, María Paula Ghiso
MSIP--Math and Science Inquiry Project for ECE Teachers, Judy Kysh
RECESS--Reflective Early Childhood Educators' Social Seminar, Jeff Daitsman
Kent State University Child Development Center, Ongoing Teacher Research, Carol Bersani
Making Learning Visible at the Lee Academy Pilot School, Ben Mardell
Las Americas Early Education School Teacher Research Initiative in Collaboration with San Francisco State University, Isauro Michael Escamilla
Inquiry into Languages, Literacies, and Identities with(in) a Diverse School District
María Paula Ghiso
Too often, professional learning is structured by a top-down model where educational knowledge is constructed outside the classroom and transmitted to teachers, who must then implement the required program or content. Practitioner inquiry disrupts such prevalent arrangements, providing opportunities for teachers to theorize their practice and investigate issues they identify as important (Cochran-Smith & Lytle 1999; 2009). The goal of such research is not merely to critique existing educational arrangements, but to take action and construct alternatives more conducive to children's flourishing (Campano 2007; 2009).
For the past three years, I have collaborated with teachers in a multilingual school district in a large northeastern city through professional development courses we have restructured along an inquiry-based model. The courses focus on investigating the languages and literacies of children and families, and how educators might learn from and include such cultural and linguistic funds of knowledge (Moll et al., Amanti, Neff, & González, 1992) within school contexts (Moll et al., Amanti, Neff, & González, 1992). The group is intentionally composed of individuals from different institutions, age groups, and job descriptions. This inspires dialogue, allows us to better learn from one another, and fosters inquiry into interrelated issues affecting immigrant families that extends beyond an individual classroom. For example, early childhood educators working with English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers who span the elementary grades can together reinforce the need for shared advocacy for students. At times, our inquiry groups have also included high school teachers, creating a platform for investigating learning across the grades, delving into overlaps and divergences in academic practices and expectations, and exploring how intergenerational networks might be a resource for multicultural learning. The courses provide structures to support such collaboration, a dimension often difficult to encompass within the demands of a regular school day.
The meetings entail discussing educational literature, participating in pedagogical experiences about language and literacy learning (including Spanish-language experiences, which foster better understanding of how children with emerging proficiencies in English navigate the curriculum), and jointly examining data in the form of children's work and teacher practices. The goal is to create a climate of dialogue where teachers' own professional questions are honored and collectively explored. The following examples provide a window into this inquiry-based work.
• Changing the school environment: Troubled by the messages their physical settings may have conveyed regarding inclusion and exclusion, two groups of teachers examined their school sites with regard for how environmental print and public imagery did or did not reflect children's native languages and cultures. Each of the groups then took action by altering the surroundings based on a resource orientation (Ruiz 1984). They replaced English-only signs with ones representing the schools' multiple languages, choosing high-profile placements such as the Visitor's Log-in Book, the front door, and the main public hallway. In this way, changes would not be confined only to their classrooms. For both groups, the project also entailed an interactive component: children participated in schoolwide investigations of different countries and languages, posting questions and predictions in a central public space. English language learners were invited to help direct the inquiries and also to showcase their multilingual knowledge through the public announcement system.
• Sharing available resources: A kindergarten teacher noted that although Spanish speakers were the most represented language group in the district, her work in community outreach revealed that Latino families were not utilizing the library. As a result, she undertook a project to familiarize them with this resource, which she titled "Bienvenido a la biblioteca libre" (Welcome to the Free Library). She conducted interviews with librarians and community members to understand available services and possible obstacles for families in accessing them. As a result of her research, she developed and distributed a bilingual pamphlet that included maps to the closest library and pictures to illustrate its resources. She conducted Spanish language tours of the site that brought together Latino families from across the district, and provided childcare during the event in the form of a Storybook Reading Time so that more parents could attend.
• Reconceptualizing children's experiences: An ESL teacher working with primary grade children was dissatisfied with the battery of tests in English that newcomers were given upon entrance to her school. She examined how the design of such evaluation measures effectively positioned English language learners as failing instead of focusing on either their resources or information that could substantively inform instruction. She consequently devised an alternative set of assessments in Spanish more conducive to accurately understanding the children, including their rich cultural and linguistic resources. She also hopes to work with school translators to offer the assessments in other languages.
• Building multilingual libraries and cultural networks: After investigating the role of native language literacies, several educators applied for and received grants to acquire multilingual children's literature in order to diversify their school libraries. These texts have then been used for Multilingual Literacy Nights, where children and families are invited to engage with books in their native languages and teachers emphasize the importance of oral storytelling for supporting children's emergent bilingual literacy. One insight from such gatherings has been the realization that many families have felt isolated. This is leading to further inquiry and action to build networks among families.
These undertakings constitute only a subset of the varied projects and issues the teachers have researched, and the ongoing directions we continue to explore. It is heartening to see educators across a district working together in communities of inquiry to think creatively about early childhood educational practices in support of diverse children and families.
For more information, contact Maria Paula Ghiso at email@example.com.
MSIP—Math and Science Inquiry Project for ECE Teachers
Project findings include:
1. The varied nature of the group (from teachers to administrators to a museum outreach coordinator) promoted an intriguing range of perspectives on children's math/science learning as well as the inquiry process
2. The combination of data samples and the reading of sections of the two inquiry texts helped integrate data and analysis/reflection
3. The age/developmental range (from infants to kindergartners) of the group participants provided data on children's math/science learning across the 0–8 age span
4. This kind of inquiry project served as an important form of professional development for promoting math/science knowledge and inquiry methods
5. The project provided opportunities for cross-site discussion and collaboration.
For further information, contact Judy Kysh at firstname.lastname@example.com or Daniel Meier at email@example.com.
RECESS—Reflective Early Childhood Educators' Social Seminar
Jeff Daitsman
Chicago, Illinois
The term research-based practices often refers to the practice of teaching based on theories and philosophies rooted in a scientific understanding of children's early development. But as theories become more abstract, so too do the researchers developing them. Educational research thus moves farther away from the practical classroom applications of the theory. In order for there to be research-based practices, there needs to be practical research.
One form of practical research comes from practicing teachers. Teachers who reflect on their practices and consider the implications not only for their own classroom, but for others as well, can make unique contributions to the field of education. By collaborating with other reflective teachers, teacher researchers gain insights about the minds of the children they teach and about methods of improving classroom practices.
It is in this vein that the Reflective Early Childhood Educators' Social Seminar (RECESS) was created. A collective of reflective teachers of young children in the Chicago area, we dedicated ourselves to improving the quality of education in our classrooms. Through visiting each other's sites and conducting regular meetings, RECESS members shared teaching experiences to gain a greater understanding of children and how they learn.
Each member of the group investigated a particular focusing question in his or her classroom. When we met, we focused on one of these questions. We shared stories of our classroom experiences as they related to the topic of inquiry and raised questions based on these stories. As we discussed the questions, group members gained insight not only into the investigation presented at the meeting, but also into their own question as it related to the topic.
After each meeting we wrote up the stories we shared and the summaries of our discussions and posted them to our website at http://sites.google.com/site/aeraarsig/Home/action-research-world/recess, where they can be accessed for review.
Here are some examples:
- Allison Ashley of Covenant Nursery School investigated how teachers can create an atmosphere where children's questions and exploration are encouraged and welcome.
- Jeff Daitsman of McGaw YMCA Children's Center investigated children's understanding of the concept of death.
- Pearl Frantz of North Park Preschool investigated how aggressive play can be positively implemented in a preschool classroom.
- Roxanne Junge of Glenview New Church Preschool investigated the impact of nature on children's aggressive behavior.
For more information, contact Jeff Daitsman at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Kent State University Child Development Center, Ongoing Teacher Research
Carol Bersani
Kent, Ohio
The teachers at the Kent State University Child Development Center, a laboratory school for children 18 months through kindergarten, are engaged in teacher research with children and families about the nature of relationships formed in the outdoors. The context for this research is a campus full of hills, trees, and gardens and an adjacent wetland area with a variety of plant and animal life, creeks, ponds, and woods.
The goals of our project are to understand the child's approach to natural outdoor spaces, to engage families in dialogue regarding the value of nature experiences, and to support preservice teachers' knowledge of the integrated learning opportunities when children explore natural spaces on campus, in the wetlands, on the school playground, and in their own neighborhoods.
The following are some of our findings:
• As small groups of children and teachers explore natural places, they can listen to each other on a level not always possible indoors. This ability to listen closely to others supports the group decision-making, negotiation, and problem solving experiences that naturally occur in the outdoors.
• As the children establish their own landmarks in the outdoors, they begin to form an identity with these outdoor places (for example, a drainpipe covered by a grill becomes "a bear cage"; a group of trees becomes the "whispering woods"). In these places, the children engage in rich, imaginative storytelling that blends science and fantasy. They also desire to bring the outdoors back to their classroom through dramatic play and the creation of maps of the wetland using the landmarks as points of reference.
• Children engage in more positive risk-taking in the outdoors. They test their physical capabilities and share their thinking and stories. We observe that children who engage in less verbal communication indoors often become eager to talk when outdoors. Individual learning styles often become more visible in the outdoors.
• Children are able to slow down, observe carefully, explore intentionally, and make many discoveries that are later shared with other children and adults. Gardening on the playground becomes an opportunity for children to study the life cycle of plants.
• Children become caretakers of their outdoor environments. They develop habits related to honoring and protecting the natural environment. In a book written by a group of preschoolers, they stated their rights and responsibilities in the outdoors (for example, "We never pick anything that is living").
As the children document their encounters in the outdoors and represent their findings through drawing, painting, and other forms of expression, they begin to understand the connectedness of all living things.
These teacher-and-child research projects depend on a support system for conducting teacher research with children. Teachers have studied teacher research methodology, including framing the question, observing and documenting, interpreting, and communicating findings. They have organized themselves into critical friends groups, small groups of teachers exploring a particular aspect of the schoolwide nature studies—for example, two teachers are studying
the ways toddlers and preschoolers communicate their findings to each other about the birds that feed just outside their windows. Other aspects of the support system include resource people to support the process of teacher research and time for study together.
One of our research projects was published in the July 2009 issue of Young Children ("We Need a Way to Get to the Other Side: Exploring the Possibilities for Learning in Natural Spaces," by Galizio, Stoll, and Hutchins). We also share research projects with families and visitors by displaying collaborative hallway panels that communicate the importance of outdoor explorations for young children's learning.
For questions about this project, please contact Carol Bersani, Associate Professor, Director, Kent State University Child Development Center, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Making Learning Visible at the Lee Academy Pilot School
2009 – 2010
Ben Mardell
Boston, Massachusetts
For the past three years, the Lee Academy Pilot School, a pre-K through grade 5 Boston Public School, has partnered with the staff of the Making Learning Visible Project—a research project of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education—to promote learning communities among children and adults. During the 2009–2010 academic year, instructional coach Marina Boni of the Early Childhood Division of Boston Public Schools joined our effort. We are focusing on how to best support conversations and storytelling among the 3- to 5-year-old children in the school's early academy.
Our guiding inquiry questions are,
• How can teachers best support the oral language development of a diverse group of young children at an urban public school?
• How can a school faculty come together to build knowledge and improve their instructional practices?
Every other week, Marina or Ben Mardell and Mara Krechevsky, staff of the Making Learning Visible Project, facilitate a discussion among the six preschool teachers and two kindergarten teachers during their common planning time, a forty-five-minute period during the school day. Teachers take turns bringing a question about their practice and a related artifact to these meetings. For example, a teacher who wondered what questions to ask to extend his students' conversations brought a transcript of a conversation from his class. A teacher wanting to refine her prompts to promote storytelling brought a videotape of her eliciting a story from a child.
The protocol guiding our conversations includes the following steps:
• The presenting teacher describes her question and provides a brief context
for the artifact she is sharing.
• Teachers carefully review the artifact, make observations, and discuss the material the presenting teacher shared.
• The teachers answer the presenting teacher's questions.
• During a few minutes of silent, individual reflection time, the teachers consider the feedback provided during the session and think about how it might influence their teaching practice. The facilitators encourage the teachers to share their reflections.
Each session builds on the preceding session's conversation. Teachers report on strategies related to the previous meeting's topic that they have tried, and they discuss new questions that have emerged.
Kindergarten teacher Erin Daly feels that the time to reflect at the end of the conversation, even if only a few minutes, is very valuable, giving her a chance to plan how she can move her practice forward. Preschool teacher David Ramsey appreciates the chance to talk to colleagues about teaching and learning.
Building knowledge and influencing practice through collaborative teacher research requires a culture in which teachers are accountable to themselves and each other. The facilitators, Marina, Ben, and Mara, support this culture in several ways. As noted above, we bring teachers' ideas and practice to the forefront by beginning each session with teachers' descriptions of how they have tried to support conversations and storytelling in their classrooms since the last meeting. We reproduce the teachers' insights in several documents (for example, a list of prompts for supporting storytelling) and bring these documents back to the group for feedback. We check in with the teachers—individually and as a group—to see if there are ways our work can better support their teaching.
Given the multiple demands teachers face, helping them focus on one topic is a challenge. However, real learning comes when teachers have opportunities to carefully track, collect evidence, and reflect on one aspect of children's learning over time. It is a process for which teacher research is well suited.
For questions concerning this project, please contact Ben Mardell at email@example.com.
For more information, visit Making Learning Visible: Understanding, Documenting, and Supporting Individual and Group Learning at www.pz.harvard.edu/mlv. See also Project Zero & Reggio Children's Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners (Cambridge, MA: Project Zero, 2001).
Information about the Lee Academy can be found at http://boston.k12.ma.us/leeacademy/index.html.
Las Americas Early Education School Teacher Research Initiative in Collaboration with San Francisco State University
Isauro Michael Escamilla
San Francisco, California
Located in the heart of the Mission District of San Francisco, California, Las Americas Early Education School is part of the San Francisco Unified School District Child Development Program. Our school provides a nurturing educational program inspired by the project approach, an academic philosophy that embraces children's interests as the starting point for in-depth study of specific topics through multiple media: reading, writing, drawing, field trips, and creative arts such as painting, collage-making, music, and movement.
Reflecting the ethnic, economic, cultural, and linguistic tapestry of our city, our school includes a multiage preschool program for children ages 3 to 5, a mainstreamed special education preK program, and an educational after-school and summer program for children in kindergarten through fifth grade. We aim to provide an environment-based curriculum using our school garden to connect nature, outdoor learning, and academic success. In our classrooms we offer children a rich variety of materials to explore and represent their ideas and emergent understanding on a variety of topics; in the process they create their own knowledge, with teachers offering support as needed at specific points of the learning experience.
Our staff has a commitment to support children's interests and curiosity by listening, observing, and documenting. We document their theories, ideas, and feelings through stories, photographs, dictations, audiotaped conversations, and drawings. We believe that when children work and play in small groups they are better able to explore and understand concepts of literacy, numeracy, nature, and the creative arts. Besides ensuring the safety of the children and their social-emotional well-being, we believe that one of the most important and challenging roles as teachers is to present children with thought-provoking questions or situations that encourage them to expand their emergent analytical thinking.
Preschool head teachers Isauro Michael Escamilla and Mary Lin graduated from the master's program in education with a concentration in early childhood from San Francisco State University, and consider teacher research an art as much as a science. Both are experienced teachers with a personal interest in pursuing the underpinnings of teacher research as a pedagogical tool to guide their own professional growth. Some of their work with children has been published in Learning from Young Children: The Art and Science of Teacher Research (Meier & Henderson 2007), Young Children (Escamilla 2004), and more recently in Teaching Young Children (NAEYC 2010).
The other teachers in our program have different levels of expertise and knowledge about the inquiry process and systematic documentation of children's learning experiences. Our inquiry group, described below, has provided the right context to share experiences, find answers to common questions, and more importantly develop the habit of collaborative reflection as a strategy to gain a better understanding of our role as educators of young children.
Our teacher research inquiry group
Our monthly teacher research team meetings help us further our understanding of the research process as it relates to documentation of children's learning experiences based on classroom projects. These meetings, supported by professor Daniel Meier, provide the pedagogical framework needed to reflect on practical day-to-day decisions about children's interests, and possibilities for inquiry based on those interests and activities. We hope to provide an on-site pedagogical forum to further our understanding of our role as educators and to improve our skills as critical thinkers and teacher researchers.
Our inquiry group is composed of two head teachers, two associate teachers, and two assistant teachers. All teachers are bilingual and speak Spanish, Cantonese, or Mandarin. We have different levels of expertise in the field, with a range of four to almost 15 years in the classroom.
We consistently meet approximately once a month for an hour and a half to discuss the progress of our class projects and the content of assigned readings. In order to create a common experience we decided to read the book Learning from Young Children in the Classroom: The Art and Science of Teacher Research (Meier & Henderson 2007) as a way to reflect on our job as educators, develop a common professional language, learn specific data collection strategies, and further our understanding of classroom based research. From the outset, each teacher received a copy of the book; a teaching journal to keep up with the development of class projects, observations, and pedagogical reflections; a notebook for note taking during meetings; a calendar and folders;and one digital camera per room in addition to a tape recorder and a computer.
An important aspect of our inquiry group is the relaxed atmosphere and flexible formality of our meetings, with teacher researcher Isauro Michael Escamilla serving as group coordinator. Our meetings are not mandatory for the staff, but have become a forum where we can present to colleagues our ongoing projects, samples of children's work, emerging documentation panels, and the challenges we face to move projects forward. During these meetings we get constructive feedback, ideas, or strategies and we set new goals for the next meeting. More than anything else, these sessions have provided a framework to acquire a common language and the opportunity to learn or redefine the meaning of terms such as observations, reflective practice, pedagogical reflections, teaching journal, documentation of children's learning experiences, classroom-based inquiry, and active listening, to name a few.
Research examples
Our inquiry group explores a wide variety of topics. For example, in a recent meeting teacher Mary Lin focused her attention on an emergent interest in writing from a small group of kindergarten-bound children, and the strategies that teachers could use to help these children become proficient in holding different writing tools.
Throughout this richly documented project—which included photographs, teacher reflections, children's dictations, and writing samples dating back several months—Mary Lin discovered and confirmed that strategies are subject to differences in cultural beliefs, the involved adults' personal upbringing, and each child's skills, age, and dispositions to learning. She shared specific activities that helped children gain a more meaningful understanding of the writing process. Some of these activities were sensory, such as when she gently traced letters and other shapes with her fingers on the children's backs while they simultaneously wrote down the same letters or shapes they were feeling (and reading) with their bodies.
Other examples included writing in the air and manipulating playdough or sticky foam to engage the children in creative writing. She discovered that "playdough and sticky foam lead children to the sensory exploration of the abstract concept of letters, as the children represented the letters in a more concrete manner by manipulating, bending, and twisting the sticky foam to form random and letter-like symbols that had meaning for the children." She explains the influence of teacher research on her teaching:
|My participation in the teacher research meetings has encouraged me to question the status quo and to challenge my own assumptions and beliefs. The group has opened my mind to new possibilities in the way I teach children and collaborate with colleagues. Most importantly, it has made me be fully aware of how much I actually learn from coteachers and children.
The parents and guardians of the children who participated in this particular writing project shared that they observed great improvement in how their children held their pencils, crayons, or markers. Lin's coteachers Edwin Serrano and Sahara Gonzalez also noticed an increase in children's motivation to write, either with a marker on paper, a stick in the sand, or with plain water and a paintbrush on the walls in the school yard. Suddenly, writing became an enjoyable, stress-free activity for both children and teachers. The inquisitive nature of project-based learning and teacher research opened multiple perspectives on how to best support our young learners to develop a disposition to engage in real or imaginary writing. In this context, Lin and her coteachers promoted an optimal environment for creativity, laying a solid foundation for learning to take place.
Some of the projects we are currently working on and that are still in different stages of development are:
• Celebration of Chinese New Year, initiated by associate teacher Joanne Yu
• The Importance of Sand Play in the Classroom, documented by assistant teacher Sahara Gonzalez
• The Children's Creative Process in Collage-Making Using Recycled Materials, by head teacher Isauro Michael Escamilla
• Supporting Children's Literacy Development by Role-Playing Stories Read in Class, documented by assistant teacher Edwin Serrano and head teacher Mary Lin
Reflecting on our teacher research
In our first 18 months, our teacher research inquiry group has accomplished several objectives in accordance with our original goals. Some further questions we would like to reflect on, regardless of our topic of investigation, are:
• How do we find a balance between children leading the projects and teachers' guidance?
• How can we teach and at the same time collect data from multiple children?
• How can we deepen our reflective practice skills to find the pedagogical meaning behind the activities?
• How can we facilitate school-home connections when working on long-term projects?
Although most of the staff have embraced the principles of teacher research and the role of the teacher as observer, recorder, and interpreter of children's learning experiences, the premise of teacher research still remains thought-provoking. Perhaps this is because it contradicts the common perception that teachers are not deep thinkers and theory-makers. In many ways, teacher research breaks the stereotype of teachers as holders of knowledge and children as recipients of information; it encourages critical thinking along with self-reflection as common teaching practice. In any case, one of the themes that has emerged from our discussions is how to listen to the children and to ourselves, which has led us to the exploration of a pedagogy of listening within the teacher research context. The more we explore this topic, the more we discover that the traditional roles of teacher and learner as opposites tend to blend; the inquiry process helps us understand that these roles can and should be interchangeable.
Being a part of this group makes us feel a responsibility not only towards the children, but also towards each one of our members—when we commit to carry out a specific task, most of us tend to follow through and come fully prepared to the next meeting. Moreover, these gatherings may also count as professional growth hours to fulfill SF CARES requirements in order to obtain an annual monetary stipend. Professor Meier is also investigating how staff might be able to gain a college credit for professional development through local colleges and universities.
The success of our teacher research group at Las Americas Early Education School is in great measure the result of a staff-driven idea, as opposed to a top-down mandate. In a way, just like children, we are creators of our own knowledge. However, these opportunities for professional growth would have been more challenging without both the administration's support and funding from the Preschool For All (PFA) program, which is part of the First 5 San Francisco initiative. Our current site manager, David Hollands, has expressed that our group provides a unique scholarly forum for teacher-initiated inquiry, in-depth observations, and interpretations and discourse, which only improve the teaching/learning experience of both teachers and students. Funding for substitutes has been possible through PFA and the First 5 San Francisco initiative, allowing our group to meet for more time.
In a recent staff meeting, Hollands outlined the expectation that our expanded support will provide more opportunities for enhanced class project developments, field research, innovative data collecting strategies, and field trips to exemplary schools in our area. He added: "The teacher research group . . . has been central to our faculty's team building and core competence. The individual and collective professional development of this diverse group of educators has been impressive and will continue to evolve."
Teaching can become quite an isolating profession; our teacher research group has made it possible to create a community of educators brought together by the need to make visible their voices, ideas, and learning journeys, with the ultimate goal of offering young children meaningful educational experiences.


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I suppose I'd wonder what else that company registered about that time. It could have just been a `grab'.
Charlotte fan checking in here... We were discussing the rebrand On our board as the owner of our site registered a Hornetsplanet.com domain just in case the name is returned and I started doing some domain name research about the names that New Orleans has been rumored to be in consideration.
Nothing stood out until I looked up NewOrleansKnights.com
What do you guys think about this? Coincidence or something else?
Tom Benson agreed to buy the team on April 12th, on April 15th the domain name NewOrleansKnights.com was registered by a company named "Domains by Proxy", this is a company that registers domains confidentially for their clients.
Gayle Benson announces the new colors for the team as Red, Gold, and Navy (she said she wanted Black but, the NBA said there were too many Black uniforms). I then ran across this submission in the ESPN contest for rebranding the team.
(I'm on an IPad and can't upload the image, can someone upload it to make it easier to view)
Replace the Black with Navy and you get Mrs. Benson's colors... Maybe just a weird coincidence and I love a good conspiracy
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I suppose I'd wonder what else that company registered about that time. It could have just been a `grab'.
"Aime la vérité, mais pardonne à l'erreur." - François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
Can you attach the file here. Most of us won't be able to view it.
I think it would "bee" sweet if Mayor Landrieu and Tom Benson sent Hugo to Charlotte as a "present" almost like the French sent the Statue of Liberty to America.
Type in "New Orleans Knights NBA" in google images, it's the first one ( submitted by a fan in the ESPN contest so it's nothing official in any way, shape or form) I just thought it was odd that the colors matched up.
@42- if it was just a grab, I can't imagine anyone would pay extra to keep it confidential. All the other names that are popular aren't registered confidentially and I guess those were just grabs.
Maybe the timing is too close for Benson to have someone do it that quick (3 days) but, I just thought it was weird.
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Are you talking about this?
I like the name Knights. That would be a cool name. I also like Dukes, Pelicans, and Voodoo. Either one will work. What does Knights have to do with NOLA? The Knights in mardi gras parades i guess???
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Geaux LSU Tigers, New Orleans Saints, New Orleans Pelicans, Oakland Athletics!
The name Pelicans for a sports franchise is about as laughable as it gets. Please if there is a god, let the name stay Hornets if Pelicans is a serious consideration for a name change. Surely Mr. Benson has someone close to him that will be honest and tell him that is a stupid idea for a rebrand.
Pelicans looking all but official
Jeff Duncan @JeffDuncanTP
The #Hornets are expected to change their nickname to Pelicans, per a report by @SpearsNBAYahoo. So what do you think? Yay or nay?
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Haters gon hate, we're the ****ing Pelicans.
Well, New Orleans basketball is one less thing I can spend my money on. What an embarrassing decision. Gayle does realize that she can't just turn around and change it again next year, right??
I love all of the hate. The internet really is great isn't it.
Big debacle. It's been... uh.... negative 6 months already! Way to judge!
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I'm trying to save more money so I can quit my job. So I'm just going to treat myself to CK Shock this Christmas.
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... Oh man! My birthday is the 27th so its a combo for me for Thanksgiving so I am buying Tonka Imperiale.
He boiled for our sins.
On my wish-list are L'eau d'Ikar (Sisley) and Equus (Lalique)... for now
"M" of course. I think I'll be one of the first to purchase the 100ml bottle. It cuts the price per ml nearly in half.
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Already ordered, can't wait to arrive a big square bottle of:
Funny thing, I did't care too much of it when I tried it 2 years ago....taste evolution !!!
"I love fragrances because they provide a sheer endless variety: there is a scent for every occasion, mood or feeling. Standing before my collection in the morning matching a perfume to my needs is one of the most enjoyable things in my day"...I don't want to miss that...
Current Top 15 Spring: | Dior Fahrenheit | L'Artisan Parf. Timbuktu | Dior Eau Sauvage Parfum | Tom Ford Grey Vetiver | T.Mugler A*Men Pure Wood | Cartier Must PH | Guerlain L'Instant | Narciso Rodriguez Him | Trussardi Inside | YSL Kouros | C.H. 212 on Ice Black | Versace Versus | Givenchy PH | Lancome Miracle L'Aquatonic | Azzaro PH |
I have bought far too much recently......on the other hand if a few kind basenoters were to buy some of my collection i could buy myself more treasures ;-) lol
Christmas came early this year... and I should be receiving my Byredo Encens Chembur and Mark Buxton Around Midnight tomorrow! (I'm on an incense kick.)
Once my credit card has recovered -- likely after the holidays -- I've got my eye on Tom Ford Italian Cypress and a small bottle of Cuir de Russie or Sycomore.
One leather I never did get to try that I really wanted to:
Cuir de Lancome
Not a big spend, but I'm still looking forward to it!
Just ordered myself a botte of Jubilation XXV, 20% off at fourseasons.com - fully prepared to Jubilate this holiday season!
To begin the new year, I hope I can find a bottle of the original Dior Homme Intense.
Idole de Lubin EDP
Mona di Orio Vetyver
MFK Aqua Universalis Forte
*edit*: exclusive to Harrods in UK till next year Feb.
Funny thing. I haven't seen a pyramid in about a year that sparked an interest in even sampleing a new fragrance. Hmm! I haven't purchased a fragrance in probably the same amount of time.
Don't panic. Just stay calm, and reload....
Samples from Soivohle (Liz Zorn), Ayala Moriel, Ore and samples from Slumberhouse, and Cuir D'Oranger.
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Not me...
But I have sent my wish list off to Santa...
Watch out for JohnTheBeginner's third annual 'What Did Santa Bring You' thread, due to be posted around 20:00 GMT December 24th...
JTB 'Blatant Self Promotion'
I dont know about treating myself but Ive put in a couple of requests to father Christmas
I'd like Zileri's Sartoriale, Kouros, and Narciso Rodriguez for Him but probably will wait until next year or later.
Yuzu Man or L'homme Libre
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Just bought it this morning.... A raw material I have wanted for a long time and have struggled to find a source that I trust for it.
White Rose CO2 from White Lotus Aromatics.....I'm stoked!!!!
Honoré des Près - I Love les Carottes, a "vegetable fougère".
It took several tries to like it, but now I'm on board. It's organic, but with good lasting power, it's odd, but not pretentiously so and it seems humorous to me. Carrot juice?! Yes it actually works as a perfume.
I know I already mentioned the Jubilation. However, Christmas came early at the Gae house this year, and my folks just gifted me with L'Ether de Iunx. The presentation and packaging is stunning, by the way.
5-600€ worth of books for my next semester Studying law is expensive... My frag purchases have been seriously hampered by the book prices, but I hope to squeeze a bottle of GIT into my budget
Allure Homme Sport & Guerlain L'instant
I dont think I will be bying myself anything for christmas
Smellin good
Jubilation XXV, Memoir Man, and Honor Man all from Amouage
Aventus, if FragranceNet ever get it in stock again.
Serge Lutens: Five O'Clock au Gingembre
Kilian: Sweet Redemption
ELdO: Noël au Balcon
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I'll be in a warmer country during that time for holiday. I'll be doing some perfume hunting over there. So let's see!!!
Guerlain Mitsouko and Amouage Jubilation 25! I love my chypres!
Follow-up to OP: the Patou Pour Homme arrived today, and damn - it is fine stuff.
I have been nearly saintly good this month, and Santa Claus has agreed that I deserve it. Bout to indulge in a little Serge Lutens year-end binge. . .
I'll be traveling to the Netherlands prior to Christmas. There seems to be very good places to indulge in perfumerie (thanx for all the info Bonoanimoes ). I am debating myself to get one (maybe two ) from the following:
-Lyric, Reflection, Memoir, or Epic (Amouage)
-Cuir Beluga (Guerlain)
-LDDM (Tauer)
I got myself a bottle of Vanille 44 and restocked my supplies with almost 50ml of Windsor (first batch).
My big bottle of Coromandel just arrived this morning.
So far, it looks like I'm getting Tobacco Vanille, Ambre Sultan, Chergui and Five O'Clock Au Gingembre...
Purchases for myself are some Creed samples (stocking stuffer), couple miniatures eg Egoiste, Tuscany, DK Men, and a bottle of Michael Kors for men. With the exception of the Creeds these are fragrances I am revisiting that I once received for Christmas.
Le Labo Rose 31.
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l can never resist buying myself a present. l've already bought Dior Addict, & with my Christmas money l'm planning some decants of the (very expensive) perfumes on my wish list for New Year.
"What is this secret connection between the soul, and sea, clouds and perfumes? The soul itself appears to be sea, cloud and perfume..." - from Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.
LOL @ JoeP and comments, especially "well-deserved"!
Ken_Russel -- L'Erbolario is a good solid line, with their prices one can't go wrong.
hednic, great plan, nice winter possibilities! Will it make your total bottle count around 10K?
For me, I originally intended to buy a few bottles from Provence Sante but after testing and re-testing some, the plan has been changed: the only one from the entire line (Tilleul) will be purchased sometime closer to springtime. There is also a thought of replenishing two or three of the fragrances I have almost finished: Mauboussin, Chanel Beige, SL Arabie.
Still undecided about FM Therese or Dior Diorella (when/if I can find an older version of the latter). Another idea lurking on the back of my mind is Hermes Rouge.


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