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.
2020 Issue
By Todd Erickson, Head Teacher
A play-fueled morning in East AM is filled with opportunity, excitement and wonder. Dramatic play and oral, visual and written storytelling bring imaginative narratives to life. Around the classroom,…
By Nandini Bhattacharjya, Head Teacher, and Betsy Koning, Teacher
“But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon. He made a balloon and he grabbed on to it. And he made a basket under the balloon big enough to stand in.”—Crockett…
By Mark Mabry, Head Teacher
“Frog and Toad are friends. They have adventures. Sometimes existential dilemmas. All in brilliantly limited vocabulary and sentence structure that kept me sane and entertained through no less than 4,785,421…
By Nancy Verdtzabella, Head Teacher
“I’m an artist today! I’m an artist every day! I paint. I draw. I love to paint! It’s fun!—Kelia, painting a rainbow at the easel
“Why do we always have paint at school? What would happen if…
By Jade Arellano, Teacher
Bing Nursery School staff members consistently work to cultivate an environment that nurtures a curiosity and passion for learning. On Feb. 18, Bing hosted a staff development day where staff reflected on the…
By Emily Mendonsa, Teacher
Forty-four Bing teachers and administrators attended the Innovative Learning Conference at the Nueva School for our fall staff development day on Oct. 5, 2019. The conference, held every two years by the K-12…
By Mischa Rosenberg, Teacher and Librarian
For three days in mid-February, a record 2,500 attendees, including eight Bing staff members, gathered at The Fairmont Hotel and the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco for a conference held by…
By Jess Goodman, Teacher
Waldkindergarten, skogsmulle, bush kinder, forest school: all terms that describe early childhood learning environments that occur primarily or exclusively in nature. In such settings, trees, birds, streams,…
By Parul Chandra, Head Teacher
Equity in early childhood education was a central topic of the 2019 annual conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The conference, held in Nashville in November, also…
By Jess Goodman, Teacher
The Play First Summit, an online conference held July 20–24, was an exciting collaboration between Sally Haughey of Fairy Dust Teaching and Tom “Teacher Tom” Hobson. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives…