I enjoyed my conversation with Victoria Hackett and the Outdoor Classrooms Podcast! Here's Victoria's description: In this enlightening episode, we dive into the world of early childhood education and environmental science with Ann Gadzikowski, the author of the...

As the new school year begins, I'm looking forward to participating in the 2025-2026 cohort of the Educators’ Neighborhood, an initiative of the Fred Rogers Institute. Educators' Neighborhood is a community of educators who learn together inspired from the life and...

I’m honored to be included as a presenter for the Natural Start Alliance 2025 conference, the largest national gathering of nature-based early childhood educators. My session is titled “Every Drop Counts: Exploring Water Science with Young Children” and is available...

I'm happy to announce the birth of a new book!  Every Drop Counts: Exploring Water Science with Young Children in a Changing Climate will be published this fall with Gryphon House. The book provides early childhood educators with inspiration, ideas, resources, and...

The teachers at Families Together Cooperative Nursery School have many skills and talents but one particular area of strength is their ability to develop emergent curriculum activities in response to children’s interests. For example, one day this spring the Junipers...

My NAEYC workshop on "Young Children and Climate Change" focuses on the importance of exploratory play in building children’s creativity, resilience, and hope. Play empowers children as change agents because it prepares them for imagining and constructing solutions to...

Many thanks to Early Insights for publishing my article about the role of children in climate change. My take-away message is, "Open-ended exploratory play... helps prepare children to engage in a world in which resilience, innovation, and creativity will become our...

All the recent talk about ChatGPT has caused me to revisit the work I did in 2018 on talking with children about the ethical uses of technology. As I wrote in my article "Teach Artificial Intelligence in Kindergarten," it’s never too soon to begin having conversations...

I was thrilled to present a live virtual workshop to Indonesian educators at their Annual Conference on Friday morning, October 7. Amazingly, it was still Thursday night, October 6 in Chicago when I gave my presentation. My session was titled “Coding, Robotics, and...