For the past 25 years, Ben has taught and conducted research with infants, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners. He is the author of From Basketball to the Beatles: In Search of Compelling Early Childhood Curriculum and Growing Up in Child Care: A Case For Quality Early Education and a co-author of Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners and Making Teaching Visible: Documentation of Individual and Group Learning as Professional Development. Recently, Ben has begun competing in sprint triathlons.