For Your Binder
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
The Ordinary Magic of Resilience
A great summary of how reading fairy tales can assist children as they develop resilience! #fairytales #resilience #play #books #stories
Psychosocial Correlates of Physical Activity in Healthy Children ages 10 - 16
Self efficacy = believing that one can successfully perform a desired task or behavior. Programs for (young) children that encourage movement and exercise might be setting the stage for a more physically active adolescence. #movement #DAP #recess #outside #resilience
How Kids Learn Resilience
This article is adapted from Paul Tough's 2016 book, Helping Children Succeed: What works and why #teaching #learning #DAP #resilience #play
Please, "go outside and play"
Unfortunately, “going out to play” has gone the way of the dodo, the typewriter and the eight-track tape. #outside #play #parenting #risk #resilience
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Play Power: How to Turn Around Our Creativity Crisis
You don't solve oil spills with multiple choice answers! The future favors the flexible! #play #resilience #teaching #learning #creativity
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Discovering the Importance of Play through Personal Histories and Brain Images
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
Nurturing Creativity: Preparing young children for the challenges ahead
Creative thinking is critical for progress and for survival. How is it fostered? #art #creativity #play #teaching #resilience #DAP
School of Hard Knocks
Present company excluded, it is often a surprise that characteristics such as persistence, self control and curiosity are more important than sheer brainpower when it comes to being "successful" #play #resilience #DAP #teaching #learning
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I work with kids. Here’s why they’re consumed with anxiety. It’s not social media.
Tension without intention. #teaching #learning #play #technology #resilience #pushdown
The real reason children fidget - and what we can do about it
This is a fantastic SPOT ON 7 minute Ted Talk video with Balanced and Barefoot author, Angela Hanscom, that concisely sums up WHY children need to move and HOW to go about making sure they do! But don't just watch it and agree with it, DO IT! #play #outside #movement #recess #risk #resilience #teaching #learning #nature
The Fragile Generation
Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed. #risk #parenting #resilience #play
