Kindergarten as a Distillation of Humanity with Sara Neufeld

I'm talking Kindergarten this week as I visit Sara Neufeld to discuss Trees instead of numbers, how words reflects beliefs, how we can understand the world by observing kindergarten classrooms, deepening our relationships, inquiry, play: the first language of children, how different stories emerge depending on the classroom setup, noticing and wondering, social problem solving, the ways different cultures might effect the ways we solve problems, the capacity of children to hear each other, what we mean by ‘we’, the expectations of kindergarten versus other grades, kindergarten report cards, and my worry that there is an encroaching idea that play is less important than the academic piece of kindergarten.