Smith College, Massachusetts, recently sponsored a conference on “Teaching, Learning and Imagination.” Many of the presentations were from teachers in the Smith College Campus School, where they have been experimenting with implementing IE ideas in their teaching.

Teaching, Learning, and Imagination at Smith College

The Smith College Campus School, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the laboratory school for the Department of Education and Child Study at Smith College. The school serves children from kindergarten through sixth grade, with two classes at each grade level. The Campus School is located at Gill Hall on the Smith College campus. You can read a description of the school and its aims by its principal, Cathy H. Reid here.

Information about the conference and its aims is available here. One of the main guides to the school’s use and development of imaginative approaches to teaching is Professor Al Rudnitsky, who works in the Smith College Education and Child Study Department, and in whose study, it is reputed, Henry James slept during a visit to Smith.