Resources
Social Emotional Learning Part Two: Teaching Acceptance to Inspire Change
Please find below our daily SolBe Family update letter containing helpful resources and exciting projects to explore while we all do our part to stay home during this pandemic. Subscribe here to receive updates. June 10, 2020 SolBe Families, In Part Two of this Social...
Social Emotional Learning Part One: Teaching Kindness to Inspire Change
Please find below our daily SolBe Family update letter containing helpful resources and exciting projects to explore while we all do our part to stay home during this pandemic. Subscribe here to receive updates. June 8, 2020 SolBe Families, As I said in our post on...
Language & Learning
Please find below our daily SolBe Family update letter containing helpful resources and exciting projects to explore while we all do our part to stay home during this pandemic. Subscribe here to receive updates. June 7, 2020 Language & Learning For over ten years,...
A Message from the SolBe Family
June 4, 2020 SolBe Families, We took pause yesterday to sit in a place of thought and reflection. To hold space. To read. To listen. To try to feel deeply into the hurt and pain and anguish permeating through the Black community. We took pause to begin looking inward...
The Value of Imaginative Play
The Value of Imaginative Play “Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.” This perfect gem-of-a-Lewis-Carroll-Alice-in-Wonderland-quote does not simply evoke whimsy. It is but one of many literary examples that are rooted in the...
And So It’s Sewn
It is with the greatest joy that I share with you, SolBe is growing a garden. For the past 20 years and most of my life, I have been trying to connect people to their food. I followed that path to botany, the study of plants. But how would studying plants in all...
A Montessori-Inspired Place
A Montessori-inspired Place This is it. Today, you will begin with that one simple question -- a modest collection of mono-syllabic words, words so easy to string together yet chock full of possibility and promise. Not even realizing, you ask it in a gently lilting,...
A Hundred Languages
As adults, we subconsciously engage with the subtleties of communication. It is spoken in our tone of voice, our eyes, and body language. It is when we find ourselves code-switching between colloquialisms and languages. Some of us have even developed other languages....
The Value of Process-based Learning
“Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.” ― Loris Malaguzzi Hubspot recently published a short article, entitled, The...
Preparing a Learning-rich Environment
Imagine entering a lush greenhouse. Feel the humid air on your cheeks, smell the sweet lilac, and marvel at the vibrant color palette. A deep breath in through your mouth signals to your brain a taste of metal from a recently used garden hose. With little effort, you...
The Curious & Creative Classroom
Curiosity and creativity are powerful tools—forged through play and exploration, fortified with respectful relationships and a learning-rich environment. Maria Montessori and Loris Malaguzzi, the brilliant powerhouse educators who respectively founded the Montessori...
7 Best Parenting Blogs For Quick Tips, Help & Ideas
Being a parent is a full-time job. Between getting your kiddos up in the morning for school and tucking them into bed in the evening, your day starts and ends with ensuring they are well taken care of. While there is no one-size-fits-all guide to parenting, there are...
