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.
2001 Issue
By Adrienne Gelpi Lomangino, Head Teacher
Teacher: Brigid thinks that people go down [the ramp] slower than the ball because balls have air in them.
Zachary H.: They don’t because balls are round…
By Rinna Sanchez-Baluyut, Teacher
Children at Bing come from culturally diverse backgrounds, and increas-ingly they speak a language other than English in their homes. On October 9, 2000, Bing teachers had the…
By Adrienne Gelpi Lomangino, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator
"I hate to admit it, but I love children most for what they give me. Mark Twain said that a person could live two weeks on one compliment. A child who says that they…
By the West AM Team
Hey! The longer it is, the higher it goes!” yells Zack as he excitedly launches another foam ball skyward above the sand pool with his plank and hollow-block catapult.
Or, put another way…
By Sue Gore, Teacher
Caps for sale, caps for sale, fifty cents a cap,” sang the children, balancing towers of hats on their heads, playing gleefully in the autumn grass.
The idea for East AM’s fall project emerged…
By Beverley Hartman, Assistant Director
The lady who read us a story,” as one child called her, is Mrs. Helen Bing, a longtime friend of the Bing Nursery School community. Bing’s children had an opportunity to meet…
By Pamela Crisostomo, Teacher
In November 2000, I and five other staff attended the annual conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children held in Atlanta, Georgia. On returning to Bing,…
By Tom Limbert, Head Teacher
Even before our plane landed on Italian soil, we felt grateful and fortunate. We knew that not everyone involved in early childhood education works for a school that values professional…
2000 Issue
by Tom Limbert, Head Teacher
When I came to Bing four years ago, I was fortunate enough to have previously worked in two university-based laboratory nursery schools. I was already aware of the tremendous potential for…
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 mean?
Laboratory schools…