For Your Binder
Setting up a Process-Oriented Classroom: Learning from the Journey in a "Yes-Environment"
Getting closer to YES! #teaching #learning #art #creativity #play
Conceptual split? Parents' and experts' perceptions of play in the 21st century
What say you mom?!?!!? #DAP #play #parenting #teaching #learning
Preschool education: Go big or go home? Tennessee study calls benefit of public preschool into question
This article is in response to the release of some preliminary data for what is now known as the Vanderbilt Study (final results were released in early 2022). Even then we could see what the results ended up actually indicating... that children need to #play
#teaching #learning #DAP
Stop Trying to Make Kids “Ready” for Kindergarten
Another opportunity to (re)consider what we mean by readiness. #DAP #pushdown #play #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
Return to Kindergarten: A “Garden of Children” or “the New First Grade”?
Kindergarten should be the graduate school of fantasy play! Where did we go wrong? #play #DAP #theorists #teaching #learning
Q/A with Paul Tough
This is a link to his site, scroll down to read the Q/A section for some background as to why he wrote How Children Succeed, 2012. #resilience #learning #teaching #DAP #play
Nursery University: a reaction piece
I watched the film Nursery University back in 2011. It highlights a few NYC families and their stressful attempts to frantically get their children into the “right” preschool/nursery school. Here is a link to the trailer. My reaction comments are here as well. #pushdown #parenting #play #teaching #learning
Lack of free play among children is causing harm, say experts
In this brief update from Boston College, guest editor Peter Gray gives an overview of the articles appearing in the August 2011 issue of The American Journal of Play in which he had a few pieces. #play #teaching #learning #parenting
A Good Beginning
Imagine that! Social and emotional competence is JUST AS important as the ABCs and 123s! #play #DAP #teaching #learning
Handprint Turkeys, STEP ASIDE! Embracing process art in early childhood programs
Originally entitled, BEYOND PINTEREST! Amen! #art #creativity #teaching #play #learning
We’ll Come Back When You’re Teaching: Examining the Need for Curricular Reform in Higher Education in Response to the Introduction of Transitional Kingergarten in California’s Public Schools
What happens when you "add" a grade without considering the training of the folks who might end up teaching it? Or supervising it? #teaching #learning
