She spearheaded a 1963 Boston kindergarten project that inspired the Head Start program, and she helped with other Head Start groups. In 1970, she and her husband started the Mountain View Center for Environmental Education in Boulder. But it saddens and angers her that attitudes of 60 years ago persist. Hawkins insists that more regimentation isn't the answer. Education of teachers is the problem.
Bored teachers breed bored students.
But few, it seems, were ever bored in Hawkins's classroom.