For Your Binder

Strategies for Working with Mixed-Age Groups in Early Childhood Education
2018

Grouping children in narrow age cohorts is a fairly new practice! #mixedages #teaching #learning #DAP

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Cute is a Four Letter Word (video)
2013

In 1996 a fantastic editorial by Mary Renck Jalongo entitled, Why cute is STILL a four letter word appeared in Early Childhood Education Journal Vol 24 Issue 2.  I have a few copies of copies of copies of old copies but can't find an online link.  So until we scan it into the resources for you, watch this 17 minute TedTalk with Sarah Curtis!  Cheers! #art #creativity #play #teaching #learning

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Sensory-Motor Reading Readiness for School
2012

Dr. Johnson has seen children diagnosed with AD/HD or learning disabilities “miraculously” improve when they are taken out of “academic” kindergartens or given an extra year in a developmental kindergarten that emphasizes movement, play, and the integration of their sensory-motor systems.  #DAP #play #teaching #learning #movement #reading #writing

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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Behaviors: Understanding the critical difference
2019

When it feels like common sense and everyone should just "know it" (but they don't) it can be affirming to read about why it feels that way.  Bottom-up behaviors are instinctual and unintentional. Top-down ones are deliberate and intentional. There is a difference. And how we approach them needs to be differentiated as well! #teaching #learning #relationships #specialed #expulsion #environment

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Are Fairy Tales Still Useful to Children?
2008

Couple things here - this is an old link and the form to fill out to access the interview is no longer secure - do what you will with that.  Zipes' thoughts down towards the bottom of the page though are still very much worth the read.  Then, if you are so inclined, search his name JACK ZIPES on YouTube... better carve out a couple days!  It's a rabbit hole of amazingness that is worth falling into and you might just be a little sad when you decide to climb back out!  #fairytales #stories #books #reading

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The most important thing you can do with your kids? Play with them! says Dr. Bruce Perry
2021

A timely reminder!!! #play #teaching #learning #parenting

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Play Under Pressure: Surveying parents about children and the state of play
2016

Highlights! Key findings! How to take action!  #play #DAP #parenting

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Please, "go outside and play"
2008

Unfortunately, “going out to play” has gone the way of the dodo, the typewriter and the eight-track tape.  #outside #play #parenting #risk #resilience 

Note: depending on how often you access the LA Times, you might need to sign up for this one

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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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Discovering the Importance of Play through Personal Histories and Brain Images
2009

While having a play deprived childhood isn't going to turn you into a murderer, all of the inmates Brown interviewed had a play deprived childhood.   #play #risk #resilience #teaching #learning #powerplaying #theorists

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Principles of Early Childhood Education

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

School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys: and efforts to re-engineer the young-male imagination are doomed to fail
2013

Growing intolerance for boys' action-narrative-play choices may be undermining language development.  #DAP #gender #teaching #learning #play #powerplaying

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