For Your Binder

Ten Little Hotdogs Fryin' in the Whaaaa???

How many songs do you know??? Memorize them memorize them memorize them!  Need assistance?  Search Lisa's YouTube to watch the ones you need and want to learn!  #songs #singing #music #handouts

Want to watch the whole workshop?  Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool  

Principles of Early Childhood Education

Twelve important points that would still be relevant even if the copyright date was 1800! #play #teaching #learning #DAP

Handprint Turkeys, STEP ASIDE! Embracing process art in early childhood programs
2018

Originally entitled, BEYOND PINTEREST! Amen! #art #creativity #teaching #play #learning

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Play is NOT a Stupid Waste of Time
2021

FUN FACT! Mother Nature installed the “play drive” for the same reason she installed that other drive – the drive to reproduce: BOTH are critical for the species to continue. (In fact, play makes you into the kind of person someone would want to reproduce WITH.)  #play #teaching #learning

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Setting Children Up to Hate Reading
2014

The American Academy of Pediatrics reminds us that the critical factor as to how a student will learn to read “is not how aggressively,” the child is given instruction, but rather their “own enthusiasm for learning” yet still, we push.  #DAP #reading #teaching #learning #pushdown #play #parenting

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Benefits of Mixed-Age Groups in Early Child Education
2020

Life isn't always separated by age! There is magic in the mix!  #mixedages #DAP #learning #teaching

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Why kids should go barefoot more (and probably adults, too)
2016

Our feet were healthier before we started wearing shoes!  #play #risk #outside #movement

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The Importance of Play
2012

A report on the value of children's play and a series of policy recommendations.  This report is very UK/EU centric but the data points are still applicable, even some 10 odd years later!  #play #DAP #teaching #learning #parenting

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The Death of Recess in America
2019

Some claim we are in the middle of an ADHD epidemic.... do the kids need more drugs? Or more recess? #recess #play #teaching #learning #outside #movement

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The Importance of Play
1987

From the Atlantic Monthly, March, 1987

The way a child wants to play is often very different from the way their parents want them to, the child however, knows best! #play #DAP #learning #teaching

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Creative Art With Young Children

It's the process NOT the product! Stop with the craptivities already!!! #handouts #art #creativity #teaching

Missed the workshop? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool  

Tear Down Your Behavior Chart!
2018

First. Do. No. Harm.  Stop doing stuff to kids you wouldn't want anyone doing to you!  #teaching #learning #DAP #relationships

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