For Your Binder
Building Forts and Minds: The Importance of Child Built Space
In these secret places, children develop and control environments of their own and enjoy freedom from the rules of the adult world. #dens #forts #outside #environments #play #parenting #teaching #learning
Finding the balance: Early Childhood practitioners' views on risk, challenge and safety in outdoor play settings
Extreme safety concerns and risk minimization strategies are eroding children's opportunities to engage in developmentally appropriate risk taking. #DAP #teaching #risk #play #outside
When schools reopen, don’t neglect recess
A call for recess to serve as a restorative space when schools (re)open. #play #DAP #recess #equity #teaching #learning #outside
Playgrounds, kids and making trouble
May your playground be filled with little troublemaking revolutionaries! #playgrounds #play #parenting #outside #panopticon
The Perks of a Play In The Mud Educational Philosophy: When did America decide preschool should be in a classroom?
Nature preschools, forest kindergartens, outdoor pre-K, call 'em what you want, they've grown in number almost 500% since 2012! #nature #play #outside #forestschools
A Tale of Two Pandemics: how will COVID-19 and global trends in physical inactivity and sedentary behavior affect one another?
Is COVID-19 making us move even less than we were before? #recess #play #movement #covid #outside #DAP