For Your Binder
Mixed Age Grouping - Why we love it!
When I first read this article in the margins I simply wrote, "This is beautiful." #DAP #play #teaching #learning #mixedages
Beyond the Investment Narrative
In this article we read about the author's reservations with the investment narrative so often mentioned when talking about the value and benefits of early childhood programs. #teaching
The Invisible Curriculum of Care
"I didn't get a master's degree to change diapers!" #care #relationships #teaching
The COVID generation: how is the pandemic affecting kids' brains?
Child development researchers are asking whether the COVID pandemic is shaping brains and behavior. #teaching #learning
Your Image of the Child: Where Teaching Begins
The school we are talking about is not the school you are familiar with in the past, but it is something that you can hope for. #teaching #learning #theorists
Let Kids Play With Fire, and Other Rules for Good Parenting
A Q/A session with Gever Tulley, co-author of Fifty Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do #risk #play #DAP #outside #parenting #teaching
The Arts and Staying Cool
The art of making a space for the playfulness and messiness of teaching requires courage and letting go! #learning #teaching #creativity #art
How to play without toys? A playwork experimentation in Paris
Loose parts were provided on playgrounds located in two housing structures in Paris. The researchers had questions: How will children play with objects that are not toys? How do the objects affect children's play? #play #toys #playwork #adventureplaygrounds #recess #outside
The real reason children fidget - and what we can do about it
This is a fantastic SPOT ON 7 minute Ted Talk video with Balanced and Barefoot author, Angela Hanscom, that concisely sums up WHY children need to move and HOW to go about making sure they do! But don't just watch it and agree with it, DO IT! #play #outside #movement #recess #risk #resilience #teaching #learning #nature
Why can't we get beyond quality?
What's the "problem with quality" and why can't we get beyond it? #teaching
The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds
This was the first American Academy of Pediatrics article (well, that caught everyone's attention anyway) that mentioned the importance of play. 11 years later they released another statement but ramped up the language saying that play was crucial to a child's healthy development. I often wonder if they sat around saying to each other, really? we gotta say this again? #DAP #play #parenting #teaching #learning
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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