Mapping Teaching and Learning with Gillian Toledo, Curriculum Coordinator
One fall day this October, Gillian Toledo saw a truck backing up to the Valley School property with a load of hay bales. Wrong address, she assumed, and as she was walking over to speak to the driver, a teacher reminded her that the bales of hay were a seasonal addition to the playground. Kids could play on them and use them as they like—one of the many ways that the school activates the space of “the second classroom.” She realized that the problem solving and imaginative play inspired by those hay bales was going to be part of the teaching and learning in this new setting.
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