Meredith W. Burton

Teaching, Learning, and Living
 
Meredith W. Burton

Giving Thanks

Each year, my school does a service project around Thanksgiving to open up the world just a little bit to our preschoolers.  Empathy is a lifeskill that begins to develop at a young age, but it needs to be fostered.  Young children are egocentric and need to make an authentic …

In the First Five Years

Did you know that 75% of a child’s IQ is developed in the first five years of life?  If you think early childhood is just a time of physical growth, you are mistaken.  The brain is constantly changing through this period (and really into adulthood too…the prefrontal cortex isn’t fully …