Mandie Goodwin ’22 (New England, Certificate in Nature Based Early Education) was hired to be the first Nature Based teacher in Portsmouth, NH. She brings the joy of living and…
Nandita Bajaj ’21
Nandita Bajaj ’21 (New England, MED) is adjunct faculty at Antioch University in the Human Education programs at its New England campus. She teaches courses on pronatalism and overpopulation, and…
The Quiet Revolution: How Introverts Change the World
Isabelle Kluge I am a proud introvert who is always growing in self-awareness and learning to empower myself in a noisy world of extroverts. In this essay, I will address…
Happy Children’s Day
Katlyn boucher On this day, we celebrate children, the magic of childhood, perhaps reminisce about our own, and hopefully reflect on the kind of world children are living in now….
Growing Resiliency—and Food
“When we stop communities from being able to grow their food, we create a cycle of dependency.”
From Library to Submarine and Back Again
Getting kids reading takes more than a little doing—it requires making the library somewhere students want to be.
Kimberly Severance ‘05
Kimberly Severance ‘05 (New England, MED) is the new Head Golf Coach and Director of Career Services at Cottey College, an independent liberal arts and sciences women’s college in Missouri….
Raising Awareness and Improving Vision for Childhood Learning
It was almost twenty years ago when Wendy Rosen’s daughter began having difficulties in school. The long-time elementary school teacher knew something was wrong. But she didn’t know what. She…
Nature-Based Early Childhood Education Faculty Host a Weeklong Workshop
Antioch New England’s Nature-Based Early Childhood Education program faculty, Ellen Doris and Elizabeth Lowe, recently hosted a weeklong workshop with the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union. Cheryl Charles, chairwoman of the…
Big Idea: Redefining Literacy
We’re getting ready to launch Season Four of the Seed Field Podcast and we’re putting together two mini-episodes that revisit interviews from Season Three and pull out the themes that consistently run through them. If there’s hope in anything, there is hope in children as educators. As our school systems focus on producing certain test scores, checking boxes, and sometimes treating students as products rather than people, we have education experts like the three guests from this mini-series on “literacy” who challenge teachers to take an individualized approach, to meet students where they are, and encourage their curiosity.
Jazmine Casey, MA in Teaching
I was a preschool teacher for seven years and then I decided to take myself to the next level and get into elementary school. I chose Antioch because I really…
Promoting Literacy Education as a Key for Social Justice
“Students come to Antioch to be justice educators,” says Heather Cheney, a core faculty member and chair of the MA in Teaching program at Antioch Seattle. “I mean, it’s part…