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.

2022 Issue

By Parul Chandra, Head Teacher 

Interacting with peers of different ages has historically been part of the natural order of childhood. You may have grown up in the city where you and other children played in backyards or streets only…

By Mark Mabry, Head Teacher, and Paloma Moreno, Teacher 

When children arrive at school every day, they are welcomed with many opportunities for pretend cooking and baking play. They see a play kitchen in the center of the classroom…

By Nancy Verdtzabella, Head Teacher  

“It is, thus, that materials show their hand at the dawn of development. It is materials that invite motor actions, linking discovery to imagination in what will become an inexhaustible interplay…

By Todd Erickson, Head Teacher 

Newspapers have informed, entertained and inspired people for over 400 years. East AM’s daily classroom newspaper, the East AM News, provided a yearlong platform for East AM children to share their…

By Mary Munday, Head Teacher

Activities that include basic materials like blocks, clay, paint, sand and water are central to Bing’s curriculum. There is, however, another material that is a staple of our nursery classrooms—wood. On a…

By Anna Christiansen, Teacher 

The abundant flowers in the Bing yards became a focal point of the curriculum in West PM this year. The flowers not only beautify the school, they also serve as materials for children to use to extend…

By Marisa Chin-Calubaquib, Teacher 

Have you ever wondered why children choose to play in one area of the classroom over others? What do they base their decisions on? Just like adults, children are drawn to beauty in all its forms.…

By Chuyi Yang and Jessica Goodman, Teachers 

Bing Nursery School staff learned about and grappled with the concepts of radical empathy, systems of oppression and ethical song choice at the school’s 2021 Fall Staff Development Day.…

By Lindsay Damiano, Teacher 

“Is ability the main way we get to know a child? Rather than their characteristics, passions, strengths, loves?” 

Guest presenter Todd Wanerman posed these questions to the Bing staff at the…

By Amanda Louie and Mischa Rosenberg, Teachers, and Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator 

During Bing Nursery School’s 2022 Spring Staff Development Day, held on April 22, staff explored two topics: teaching children…