For Your Binder
Children's Outdoor Play & Learning Environments: Returning to Nature
Limiting playgrounds to manufactured equipment short-changes children of rich, playful, outdoor experiences! #play #outside #nature #movement
What is a Schema?
This is a 9 page PDF that will give you an overview of schema play theory! Flying Start gives credit to Sally Featherstone at the end of the document and the book she edited entitled, Again! Again! #schema #play #movement
Stop Trying to Make Kids “Ready” for Kindergarten
Another opportunity to (re)consider what we mean by readiness. #DAP #pushdown #play #teaching #learning
What can't be a toy?
Is a toy ever not a toy? What makes something a toy? Once a toy, can it lose it's "toy" status? #play #toys
Reading at five: why??
There is no evidence that pressuring children to read at five improves later reading ability - but there is much concern that is damaging. #DAP #learning #teaching #reading #expulsion #play
Progressive Education: Why it's hard to beat, but also hard to find
People often sneer at the idea of progressive education based on an image that has little to do with progressive education! #teaching
Day care or preschool? It's not just semantics
An unfortunate side effect of the growing recognition of the early years as learning years is that some people get hyperactive about it. #parenting #learning #teaching #DAP #care #relationships
The Power of One
“To help kids shape their identity, we’ve got to awaken them to their own questions and encourage them to create their own projects. They don’t really learn unless they ask.” I wish I could've heard her, even just once. " #teaching #learning
The need for pretend play in child development
Imaginative play has been identified as a vital component to a child's development. #play #DAP #learning
Circles Are For Squares! Making Time for Books and Stories!
The title has changed over the years but the message hasn't - why do we continue to interrupt engaged children to come to a meeting??? #books #stories #play #teaching #handouts
Missed the workshop? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool
All rigor and no play is no way to improve learning
At the heart of this zero-sum game are assumptions that rigorous content requires work, while play is frivolous. #teaching #learning #DAP #play
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