For Your Binder

The first days of preschool can be stressful for everyone. In this short but helpful article, Lillian Katz offers a few ideas that might assist both parents and teachers.  #environment #learning #teaching #relationships #care 

I still believe it all comes back to either Love or Fear (meaning anything other than "love" has it's origin in "fear") but this might assist as we identify how fear might be manifesting. #DAP #teaching #learning 

Kindergarten now serves as a gatekeeper, not a welcome mat, to elementary school. #play #pushdown #teaching

How CAN you spot a schema? Check out this PDF to find out!  #schema #play #movement

It's only October, but already Nicky is exhibiting symptoms of student ennui. The other day, when his mother asked him the best thing about school, he said lunch. Most boring? Art history.  Sound typical?  Perhaps.  Except Nicky isn't a moody adolescent - Nicky is only 5.  #pushdown #DAP #play #teaching #learning

This 2015 report provides preliminary findings from the longitudinal Vanderbilt Study, which started in 2009.  This study set out to identify whether or not children who participate in Tennessee PreK programs make greater gains than children who don't. #teaching #learning #DAP #pushdown 

No one is really sure WHY we cry - but there are lots of theories. For me it can be a true feeling of sadness but I think it is often a purge of emotion.  A clearing.  A cleansing.  Bev Bos used to say that "if the eyes are the window to the soul then tears are what keeps the windows clean" #playtherapy 

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

I am including this document as it presents some names that are not typically included in a "basic intro to the theorists" resource; and I liked that. #DAP #teaching #learning #theorists 

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

While I would (re)(para)phrase the findings of this report to say: when children have the time to make choices as to how they spend their time, there is evidence of higher levels of executive function skills, I was not on the research team. But that's my non-scientific take-away all the same!  #teaching #learning #DAP #play

It's not just what is said, it is what is unsaid. Maybe conduct the bead test at your next staff meeting?!?  #implicitbias #teaching