Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won’t. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time.

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.