The Bing Times
The Bing Times is published annually in the fall, recounting news and stories of the previous year's classroom curricula, research activities, undergraduate teaching, interactions with parents and educators, and significant events in the life of the school. Each issue can be downloaded as a PDF document or perused as individual online articles. Annual issues are available from 2000 to the present.
2024 Issue
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 formal education. Too often, however,…
By Karla Kane, journalist and former Bing parent
Educators, parents, and caregivers hear a lot about executive functioning these days. We know it’s important, but why? What exactly is it? And how does it relate to academic readiness?
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By Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator
How do children learn about themselves? Do they actively seek out information from others about things like their abilities or personality?
Peter Zhu, a fourth-year doctoral…
By Rinna Sanchez-Baluyut, Head Teacher
“Plant the seeds of wisdom in children’s hearts; they’ll grow into forests of understanding.” —Unknown
This spring, the Twos studied butterflies and learned how they start life as caterpillars…
By Sadie Parrinello, Head Teacher
Building trusting relationships may be thought of as the primary developmental task—the very foundation of a 2-year-old’s introduction to Bing Nursery School as they venture from home to school. For most…
By Todd Erickson, Head Teacher
There is a symphony of sound and movement unfolding in the East Room sand area on a cool spring morning: the scraping of shovels as diggers heave scoopfuls of sand from one spot to another. The shouting of…
By Mark Mabry, Head Teacher
We often think of math learning as consisting of concepts—addition, subtraction, counting, or number recognition—that are taught didactically. However, as young children play, they are constantly and actively…
By Mischa Rosenberg, Teacher
The fauna of Bing’s outdoor spaces offer abundant opportunities to learn about the local natural world. In the spring, however, an animal ambassador visited from farther afield. Turok, a chahoua gecko natively…
By Parull Chandra, Head Teacher
As teachers returned to Bing Nursery School after winter break, we heard unusual sounds coming from the redwood grove on the west side of the yard. The sounds were beautiful, and we found their source when we…
By Nandini Bhattacharjya, Head Teacher, and Betsy Koning, Teacher
As the children returned to school in the new year, we heard them saying things like “How can I make wings?” and “I want to make butterfly wings.” We had observed the…