By Jennifer Winters, Executive Director At the heart of Bing Nursery School is a unique and essential figure: the teacher. More than classroom practitioners, Bing teachers serve as co-constructors of…
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By Jennifer Winters, Executive Director “School readiness” has received significant attention recently, with states, schools, educators, and parents striving to prepare children for the transition to…
By Jennifer Winters, Executive Director, and Beth Wise, Program Director Walking through Bing classrooms each day provides ample opportunities to stop and listen to how teachers respond to young…
By Jennifer Winters, Director After significant events, there comes a time when the dust settles, and you can pause and reflect on what you have just experienced and accomplished. The end of this past…
By Jennifer Winters, Director Though Bing closed on March 13 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the staff remained hard at work through the spring and summer. And though the school was still officially…
By Jennifer Winters, Director The prolonged COVID-19 crisis restrictions have certainly changed everyone’s world. It has also sharpened our focus on what’s important. For the children and families…
by Jeanne W. Lepper, Director An interview with Jeanne Lepper conducted by Chia-wa Yeh, editor of The Bing Times. I know Bing was founded and is run as a laboratory school, but what does that really…
By Jeanne W. Lepper, Director The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. —Robert Louis Stevenson “What a beautiful child!” the parents exclaim over their…
By Jeanne W. Lepper, Director How do young adults learn about children? Some come from large families and have siblings and cousins. Some may have served as counselors at summer camp, others as…
By Jeanne W. Lepper, Director One day this spring I had a wonderful surprise. During a visit to Bing School, Helen Bing presented us with a typed, one-page document that her mother-in-law, Anna Bing…