For Your Binder

Building Forts and Minds: The Importance of Child Built Space
2017

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

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Finding the balance: Early Childhood practitioners' views on risk, challenge and safety in outdoor play settings
2010

Extreme safety concerns and risk minimization strategies are eroding children's opportunities to engage in developmentally appropriate risk taking. #DAP #teaching #risk #play #outside

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When schools reopen, don’t neglect recess
2020

A call for recess to serve as a restorative space when schools (re)open. #play #DAP #recess #equity #teaching #learning #outside

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Playgrounds, kids and making trouble
2010

May your playground be filled with little troublemaking revolutionaries! #playgrounds #play #parenting #outside #panopticon

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The Perks of a Play In The Mud Educational Philosophy: When did America decide preschool should be in a classroom?
2018

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

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A Tale of Two Pandemics: how will COVID-19 and global trends in physical inactivity and sedentary behavior affect one another?
2020

Is COVID-19 making us move even less than we were before? #recess #play #movement #covid #outside #DAP

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