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Short: ‘Everyone’s A Friend And Everyone Can Play’

Kevin C. Brown
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90.5 WESA
Each day at Carnegie Mellon University’s Children’s School begins with “free choice”: the children can roam from room to room and choose what they’d like to do for the first 45 minutes.";s:3:"uri

Being human is difficult, but learning how to be human can be even more so. For the young students at Carnegie Mellon University’s Children’s School, teacher Jean Thompson Bird begins with making everyone feel included. “Everyone’s a friend and everyone can play,” she says. “That’s kind of our overarching rule.”

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WESA receives funding from Carnegie Mellon University’s Children’s School.