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.

2002 Issue

By Nancy Howe, Head Teacher

Bing Nursery School was originally founded in 1949 as the Stanford Village Nursery School. In 1966 a grant from the National Science Foundation to the Stanford Psychology Department,…

By Jennifer Winters, Assistant Director

Parents and teachers alike understand that young children learn best by making their own discoveries and acting on their own ideas. But learning something well also requires …

By Courtni Holst, Teacher

Alphabing started as West PM’s class gift for the annual Harvest Moon Auction last November. The idea of an alphabet book all about Bing was mentioned to Jennifer Justice, a parent of…

By Nancy Howe, Head Teacher

Parents are always welcome at Bing Nursery School, and they can participate in their child’s first school experience in many ways, from fundraisers like the annual auction to family events like the Bing Fair to working…

By Sarah Wright, Head Teacher

James: I see the ring. Look! It’s going to have babies. It’s going to have eggs. I found a worm that’s about to have babies.

Nika: Worms don’t have babies that are eggs. They are…

By Tom Limbert, Head Teacher

“This is my building,” Riley explained to a teacher transcribing his words. “It’s a hundred feet tall!” Riley pointed to his clay creation and elaborated, “It has a huge window. The little…

By Jennifer Winters, Assistant Director

At our staff-development day during spring quarter, Masaharu Kage spoke to us about “lesson study,” a technique for teacher training in Japanese elementary schools. Kage is an…

2001 Issue

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 new baby.…

By Carolee Fucigna, Head Teacher

Rachel B.: Mommy had Nicole in her tummy. I couldn’t sit on her lap. She was in the hospital. I had to sit on Daddy’s lap. Mom was not there in the night.

Chloe…

By Courtni Holst, Teacher

This past March more than twenty Bing staff members traveled to San Diego for the annual conference of the California Association for the Educa-tion of Young Children. In three days we…