Joy, but make it academic Inside Laura Kirchofer’s Kindergarten classroom
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Laura Kirchofer, a kindergarten teacher at Birch Street Elementary in Kalkaska, works to create a classroom where students feel safe, supported and engaged in learning.
Paper snowballs fly across the room as music plays and laughter fills the air. When the song stops, kindergarteners scramble to uncrumple their papers, sound out letters and write CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. No one has the same paper. No one is singled out. Everyone is learning.
“It looks chaotic,” Laura Kirchofer says with a smile, “but it’s academic.”
For Kirchofer, moments like this capture what matters most. Every student is engaged. Every learner can access the content. And joy is part of the process, not a break from it.
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