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.
2019 Issue
By Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator
Sophie Bridgers, a beloved Stanford researcher known to Bing Nursery School children as “game room teacher,” worked and interacted with 2-year-olds at Bing for the past three years.…
By Mary Munday, Head Teacher
As children entered the Tuesday/Thursday AM Twos classroom this spring, they quickly discovered several jars with tiny caterpillars inside. The teachers had set up the jars at the children’s eye level and…
By Rinna Sanchez-Baluyut, Head Teacher
I’m making a hospital for my dad. I’m putting the roof on. This is the elevator!” said one child. “I’m making a big airport. It’s going back to San Carlos,” said another. With much animation and…
By Nandini Bhattacharjya, Head Teacher, and Betsy Koning, Teacher
“We’re going on a trip!”
“Let’s go on a boat.”
These were some of the recurring play scenarios in the Monday/Wednesday PM Twos class this winter quarter. As…
By Peckie Peters, Head Teacher
I can’t find my Mommy!” announced a child loudly, causing several children in the Twos classroom to pause. In the beginning of the school year, 2-year-olds often like to carry around a photo of their family…
By Peckie Peters, Head Teacher
Every day in the classroom, teachers encounter an endless supply of teachable moments, those small moments in time when we notice something about a child’s play that is interesting, informative or…
By Nandini Bhattacharjya, Head Teacher, and Betsy Koning, Teacher
“Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience.”
—Lilian Katz, leading scholar in early childhood education
As…
By Jess Goodman, Teacher
“The living world is the natural domain of the most restless and paradoxical part of the human spirit. Our sense of wonder grows exponentially.”
—Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia
Built on the site of…
By Jeanne Zuech, Head Teacher
Children at Bing are seen as explorers and inventors. They are guided by an inner drive to fulfill a need, follow an interest or meet a challenge. On any given day, a child might choose to seek a sensory…
By Parul Chandra, Head Teacher
At the start of winter quarter, teachers in Center AM noticed that children who ordinarily didn’t visit the language table were drawn to it and wanted to share their own stories. It became obvious to us that…