For Your Binder
Cute is a Four Letter Word (video)
In 1996 a fantastic editorial by Mary Renck Jalongo entitled, Why cute is STILL a four letter word appeared in Early Childhood Education Journal Vol 24 Issue 2. I have a few copies of copies of copies of old copies but can't find an online link. So until we scan it into the resources for you, watch this 17 minute TedTalk with Sarah Curtis! Cheers! #art #creativity #play #teaching #learning
Patience or Understanding?
Patience is rarely necessary when one is understanding. #teaching #learning #care #relationships
Teacher Memories: Support or Hindrance to Good Practice?
Are our elementary school memories influencing how we are doing early childhood even though (we know) many of those practices are not developmentally appropriate? #DAP #teaching #learning
The Impact of Rough and Tumble Play
This is a brief - yet rich - overview of a few benefits of rough & tumble play! #play #powerplaying #DAP
Meet Bruce Perry!
This link will jump you over to the collection of Bruce Perry articles housed on the Child Trauma (CT) site. CT strives to translate emerging findings about the human brain and child development into practical implications for the ways we nurture, protect, enrich, educate and heal children. #DAP #relationships #care #teaching #learning
Play Therapy Themes
Wondering how play therapists choose materials?? #DAP #play #playtherapy
Rethinking the Colorful Kindergarten Classroom
Are the walls influencing learning? #environment #teaching #learning #art #creativity
The Case for Elementary School Recess
Even juries get recess!!!!! #recess #movement #play #DAP #outside #teaching #learning
The Children Must Play - What the US could learn from Finland about education reform
In any country, no matter it's size or composition, there is much wisdom in minimizing testing and investing in smaller classes and better treatment of teachers. #play #teaching #learning
Does early reading instruction help reading in the long-term? A review of empirical evidence
In a nutshell - nope. Read it anyway and get the details! #DAP #teaching #learning #reading #play
Comparing Injury Rates on a Fixed Equipment Playground and an Adventure Playground
Data was collected over a five year span. Anyone wanna take any guesses? Yup! You guessed it! The adventure playground was statistically safer. #adventureplaygrounds #playgrounds #play #risk #movement #recess #playwork #outside
Toy Advertising
I found this wikipedia post interesting as I was reading up on the speakers and topics to be presented at the 2018 International Toy Research Association (ITRA) conference, 2018, Paris. #play #toys
