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Dec 4, 2014 · Nancy Carlsson-Paige is a leading advocate for early childhood education. An emeritus professor at Lesley University, where she taught teachers for thirty years, she is the author of several books, including Taking Back Childhood: A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kids. She is also the co-founder of the Defending ...
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In a June 2011 speech given by Dr. Carlsson-Paige she won the Embracing the Legacy Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, she said, “Teachers cannot thrive in punitive environments where they are measured, compared, and threatened. Children can’t learn in these environments either — at least they can’t learn in the ...
Jan 30, 2014 · How to raise a grounded, creative child. Link Copied! Matt Damon, right, at 5, and Kyle Damon, 8, listen to their mother Nancy Carlsson-Paige reading Beatrix Potter in 1975. Editor’s Note: Nancy ...
Dec 9, 2014 · Carlsson-Paige, sitting alone on a bench in the summer heat, had wept as she’d listened. Her son had captured the essence of her life’s work — her passion for educating the whole child, for ...
Educator and writer Nancy Carlsson-Paige urges us to see the commonalities in all humans in order to build a society based on racial and social justice. View...
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Feb 24, 2009 · Nancy Carlsson-Paige speaks with emotional wisdom.”— Daniel Goleman, author of the New York Times bestsellers Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence “Practical advice for parents who want to build better—nonviolent, caring, creative—relationships with their children.”— Publishers Weekly
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Geralyn M. Bywater, MEd, has 30 years of experience in early childhood education. She is a founding teacher at the Mission Hill PK-8 School – a teacher-led, democratic Boston Public School. Geralyn was Director and then Co-Director of Defending the Early Years from 2012- June 2020.
