For Your Binder
Why LGBTQ Identity Labels Are Important
You can never go wrong by using the words someone has asked you to use for them. #equity #gender #teaching #learning
Why good teachers allow a child’s mind to wander and wonder
Our educational climate is often inhospitable to instigating a sense of wonder. #teaching #learning #creativity
When Children Are Not Read to at Home: The Million Word Gap
Conclusion? Home-based shared book reading represents an important resource for closing the word gap. This is a link to the study. #parenting #teaching #learning #books #stories #DAP #reading
Understanding and Applying the Intelligence of Play
Nurture the soil, and the seed grows fully with little attention. Neglect the soil, and the seed’s development is compromised at every step. #play #DAP #teaching #learning #parenting
Nixing Recess: The silly, alarmingly popular way to punish kids
Sometimes it takes teachers AND parents to bring educational policies in-line with what we know about the importance of recess. #recess #play #teaching #learning #DAP #outside #movement
Multiple Intelligences Theory
Lisa uses Howard Gardner's existing framework as a platform to stretch ourselves out of our comfort zones to make sure our classrooms are making room for everyone - not just the kids we like. #handouts #teaching #learning #DAP #theorists
Missed the workshop? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool
Hidden Meanings in Children's Fairy Tales
Many important issues can be worked out through argument and conflict. #fairytales #books #stories #reading
The Playwork Primer
A wonderful introduction to playwork as well as some key concepts and phrases. It also provides an overview of the play types as identified by Bob Hughes as well as tons of resources & notes at the end. It might only be 20 some-odd pages, but for a small little book, it packs a punch! #playwork #DAP #play #teaching #learning
Lisa Murphy On... Being Child Centered
Contrary to what your poopy face co-worker might believe, being child centered does NOT mean kids are running around naked with paint flying through the air! This is the handout that goes with the workshop that goes with the book of the same title! #handouts #play #DAP #teaching
Missed the workshop? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool
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
What is Happening to Fine Motor Development?
To put it bluntly, Guddemi says that lacking fine motor skills is not "fine" in Kindergarten! #teaching #learning #DAP #play #pushdown #reading #writing
Re-defining the Play Cycle: An empirical study of playworkers’ understanding of playwork theory
The Play Cycle was initially identified in 1998 in what is oft simply referred to as The Colorado Paper. Since then, a new definition of the Play Cycle as been proposed by the authors of this study. #playwork #play
