1. 1 Through a practice called Descriptive Inquiry, Carini and her co-collaborators identify a series of processes that draw on description to better meet the
2. needs of children. This informed the work I did with student teachers.
3. 2 Patricia F. Carini, Starting Strong: A Different Look at Children, Schools, and
4. Standards (New York: Teachers College Press, 2001), 196.
5. 3 Gail Boldt and Joseph Thomas Valente, “Bring Back the Asylum: Reimaging Inclusion in the Presence of Others,” in Reconceptualizing Early Childhood