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...Casa de los Sabores B&B (011-52-951-516-5704; lasbugambilias.com) A lovely, outdoor kitchen in a vintage, colonial home is Pilar Cabrera?s classroom...
...typical day at Harvard, 6,500 undergraduates fill the hallowed lecture halls and classrooms of Harvard Yard in pursuit of their Bachelors of Arts and Sciences degrees. When the sun sets and the students return to their dorms and dining halls, they are replaced by another set of Harvard undergraduates. But with an average age of 36, these nighttime seekers of an Ivy League education are not your typically college students.The majority of candidates in the Bachelor of Liberal Arts (ALB) program, the four year undergraduate program of the Harvard Extension School, are working adults. But, according to Mark Ouchida...
...using the French peasants’ habit of making ridiculous, rhymed slogans as political commentary, for example—but to do so would be to miss the point. “A Tale of Two Cities” was about taking a break from academic analysis, leaving the classroom to sit on the grass with a group of kids, and laughing alongside them as some of Harvard’s most talented actors put on a delightful comedy. The half-hour-long production was a reminder of the simple pleasure that we once experienced watching Saturday morning cartoons...
...classroom with four teenage boys, the focus is on life skills. Johnathan learns to type a grocery list, which he and an instructor will later take shopping. Another boy, learning to use a camera, asks visitors whether he may take their picture. He uses the same words and intonation each time he asks...
...emphasizes the expression of emotion and spontaneous thinking. Rather than work on a highly specific skill, DIR activities tend to include complex social interactions that build many skills at once. In a classroom for 5-to-9-year-olds, eight kids sit in a circle playing a game in which they pick an activity card and a card showing a classmate's face. Children earn cheers as they perform the designated activity with that classmate (giving Olivia a high five, hugging Alex). Instead of tangible rewards, shouts of encouragement, a sense of accomplishment and what Greenspan calls the "warm, pleasurable...