Visualizing for Understanding
Understanding mathematical operations is about seeing and understanding how and why they work, not about taking someone’s word for it. READ MORE »
Miquon Blog
What Goes Into Lunch at Miquon?
The students learned are walking away with many of the analytical skills needed to initiate a small sales enterprise. READ MORE »
Giving voice to our best guess
Math work at Miquon often works across several topics, connecting mathematical reasoning skills with students’ number sense and experience of relative distances. READ MORE »
Guided Exploration in Science
Giving students opportunities to mess around is a key component of science education at Miquon. In this case, “messing around” means time devoted to . . . READ MORE »
Kids Wonder ‘If I Ran the Circus’ at Miquon Conference week
Twice a year, Miquon conference week offers children something a little different: it’s a chance to delve deeply into a particular study, with the entire week’s activities focused on one topic. READ MORE »
Dancing Dots and Tapping Beats: “I Notice a Pattern!”
Our emergent curriculum leads us far and wide, and the children’s exploration thus far invites us to look at repetition and design of patterns that interconnect within nature, math, sound, movement, and art. READ MORE »
We are a school that opens our doors, our minds, our hearts
As a Progressive school, we value civility and equal, fair treatment for all humans. We deliberately immerse our students in material about a variety of human experiences to build an understanding of a world bigger than their own. READ MORE »
We Read about Brave Women
One such discussion shared the value of the counterstory, or a story that presents experiences beyond the dominant narrative. READ MORE »
“Pretend we were just born”
A close look inside our Nursery classroom reveals children’s stories unfolding, characters evolving and plots twisting. READ MORE »
Finding Empathy Through Art and Story
During morning choice time, many of our learners are taking agency in talking about what they are creating and their intention to give it to someone as a kind gesture. READ MORE »
