For Your Binder
Let 'em eat dirt
Busy busy busy kids don't get the opportunity to wander outside the parental orbit to explore! Will we pay a price? #play #outside #pushdown #dirt #nature
The Colorado Paper
This was my first exposure to playwork as a "discipline" and seeing the playground as therapeutic space; as healing. #playwork #play
After 100 years of the Same Teaching Model It's Time to Throw Out the Playbook
It's time to change the direction of the arrow! #teaching #relationships #environment
We’ll Come Back When You’re Teaching: Examining the Need for Curricular Reform in Higher Education in Response to the Introduction of Transitional Kingergarten in California’s Public Schools
What happens when you "add" a grade without considering the training of the folks who might end up teaching it? Or supervising it? #teaching #learning
The school where kids can build dens
The author states that his guide on the visit said the den building was not an adult idea: it originated from children’s spontaneous activity. #dens #forts #play #outside #teaching
Hand Strength: 35 Fun Activities for Kids
Remember, these are in addition to all those big juicy large motor verbs that are crucial if you want strong hands in the first place! #DAP #teaching #learning #movement #writing
2? 4? 6? Grouping Children to Promote Social and Emotional Development
See you at the steps! #DAP #teaching #learning
Oh Those Little Ones
If you work with the wee bairns this one is for you! While the theory applies to all ages, if you are needing a few fresh ideas for the little ones, this handout will assist. And while there are activities in the handout, please please please remember it's never ever about the activities; it is about the caring, the connecting, the relationships and attachment! If those ingredients are missing, it doesn't matter how pretty the room is or how much stuff you got! #handouts #care #relationships #DAP #teaching #theorists
Missed the workshop? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool
Einstein May Never Have Used Flashcards, But He Probably Built Forts: Bringing play back into the lives of children
Can you just see it? A young Einstein, wild hair flying, throwing his mother’s quilt over a couple of chairs and crawling underneath!?!?! #nature #play #forts #dens #looseparts #outside
Prologue: Why We Should Care about Caring
Caring does NOT substitute or replace learning, caring establishes an effective culture for it to actually happen. #caring #teaching #learning #relationships
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Comparing Injury Rates on a Fixed Equipment Playground and an Adventure Playground
Data was collected over a five year span. Anyone wanna take any guesses? Yup! You guessed it! The adventure playground was statistically safer. #adventureplaygrounds #playgrounds #play #risk #movement #recess #playwork #outside
Seeing Children do More with Less
Toes not toys! #play #DAP #looseparts #teaching #learning #environment
