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 Amy Shin, Teacher
As children get close to entering kindergarten, many questions emerge for parents and teachers hoping to make the transition as smooth as possible. To help answer these questions, Stephanie Agnew, assistant director…
By Gene Aiken, Facilities Coordinator; Samantha Bologna, Operations Coordinator; Larry Ong, Development Coordinator; Jenny Rahn, Finance Coordinator; and Ereka Tinsley, Program Assistant
As parents, children and guests step into the Bing…
By Vanessa Ibarra, Teacher
I have always known that I wanted to be a teacher. My parents migrated to the United States in 1989 to pursue the so-called “American Dream.” I grew up in East Palo Alto, surrounded by warmth and love from my…
By Bing Nursery School
A concert by cross-cultural music maker, clarinetist, tenor saxophonist and composer Oran Etkin took place at Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Auditorium on Oct. 12, 2019, as part of the annual Bing Nursery School Performance…
By Sandi Gedeon, Associate Director of Finance and Operations, and Larry Ong, Development Coordinator
On Nov. 9, 2019, at Bing Nursery School’s 31st Annual Harvest Moon Auction, over 500 buccaneers and mateys sailed to Treasure Island at…
2019 Issue
By Jennifer Winters, Director
On a recent tour of Bing with a group of prospective parents, I overheard one parent say, “Yes, it is a beautiful school, but the children are really just playing and not learning anything.” I took a deep…
By Holly Finn, Bing parent
One of the winners of 2019’s Turing Award for artificial intelligence gave a lecture not long ago with the reassuring title, How Does the Brain Learn So Quickly? The unspoken subtitle was: And How Come AI Does…
By Mischa Rosenberg, Teacher
At my snack table last summer, a child on the cusp of 3 years old, newly arrived from China, sat across from me. She was in the early stages of English language acquisition, and her communication at school was…
By Kelli Agnich, Teacher
Using a pen or pencil and a piece of paper, draw a phone, a rabbit and a train.
Now, take a look at the distinctions you included to convey the object’s identity: Does your phone have a cord, or does it more…
By Tayna Gonzalez-Rivera, Teacher
Adults infer and learn so much from others’ emotional expressions. If we see someone looking at a screen with a terrified look, we can infer that this person might be watching a scary movie or show. If we…