For Your Binder
Dramatic Play: Bring it on back
While I have moved beyond creating prop boxes, this article, while a little dated, provides a nice reminder as to the importance of dramatic play and, should the children instigate an exploration of some of the themes that are presented, might serve as a starting spot for some additional materials that might add to the exploration and play. #play #teaching #learning #DAP
Kindergarten Cram: Toss out the No. 2 pencils and let them play
This article begs the question, why are we so hellbent on, "bigger! better! faster! sooner! now!" ?? #DAP #play #pushdown #teaching #learning #parenting
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Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm Research reveals potential risks of academic preschools and kindergartens
Louder for the people in the back! #DAP #play #teaching #learning
Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning
While I would (re)(para)phrase the findings of this report to say: when children have the time to make choices as to how they spend their time, there is evidence of higher levels of executive function skills, I was not on the research team. But that's my non-scientific take-away all the same! #teaching #learning #DAP #play
Please, "go outside and play"
Unfortunately, “going out to play” has gone the way of the dodo, the typewriter and the eight-track tape. #outside #play #parenting #risk #resilience
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Distinctions between Academic and Intellectual Goals in Early Childhood Education
A classic. #DAP #teaching #learning
The conflict within: Resistance to inclusion and other paradoxes in special education
This article explores resistance to the inclusion of students with disabilities into mainstream classes and the solidification of special education as an institutionalized practice. #DAP #specialed #teaching #learning
Improving Children’s Health through Play: Exploring Issues and Recommendations
This report is a collaboration between the Alliance for Childhood and the US Play Coalition acknowledging that while play is making a come-back, we still need rapid, wide-spread progress to avoid additional suffering from play deprivation and to heal children already suffering from it. #play #DAP #playwork #outside #movement #recess
Back to the Playground
In 2007 The Alliance for Childhood shared excerpts from an article that appeared in the Boston Globe explaining the need for adventurous play - I scanned it here for you. #play #recess #adventureplaygrounds #recess #environment
PreK Expulsion Study: Policy Brief
This brief was compiled by The Foundation for Child Development and summarizes the first study ever conducted (Gilliam, 2005) on the rate of expulsion in prekindergarten programs. #teaching #learning #equity #expulsion #implicitbias
Sitting Babies Up – The Downside
The splendor of “baby-owned” accomplishments is why Janet Landsbury recommends giving infants the opportunity to learn to sit on their own and not propping or positioning them. This article lists some of the other reasons! #movement #teaching #learning #parenting #DAP #theorists
Setting up a Process-Oriented Classroom: Learning from the Journey in a "Yes-Environment"
Getting closer to YES! #teaching #learning #art #creativity #play