For Your Binder

Children's Outdoor Play & Learning Environments: Returning to Nature
1998

Limiting playgrounds to manufactured equipment short-changes children of rich, playful, outdoor experiences!  #play #outside #nature #movement

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What is a Schema?
2014

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

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Stop Trying to Make Kids “Ready” for Kindergarten
2014

Another opportunity to (re)consider what we mean by readiness.  #DAP #pushdown #play #teaching #learning

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What can't be a toy?
2018

Is a toy ever not a toy? What makes something a toy?  Once a toy, can it lose it's "toy" status?  #play #toys

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Reading at five: why??
2013

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

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Progressive Education: Why it's hard to beat, but also hard to find
2008

People often sneer at the idea of progressive education based on an image that has little to do with progressive education! #teaching

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Day care or preschool? It's not just semantics
2003

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

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The Power of One
2002

“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

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The need for pretend play in child development
2012

Imaginative play has been identified as a vital component to a child's development. #play #DAP  #learning 

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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
2015

At the heart of this zero-sum game are assumptions that rigorous content requires work, while play is frivolous. #teaching #learning #DAP #play

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The conflict within: Resistance to inclusion and other paradoxes in special education
2007

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

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