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Hands on Heart, THIS is Where I Teach From
Read Now ➞Heart-centred educators lead with heart and from heart. Our heart is the compass that guides us. This ‘plays out’ differently […]
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How Play-Based Learning Healed My Burnout (And Opened My Heart)
Read Now ➞It’s not easy to operate a mixed-age daycare. I know, because that’s what I do each day. I’m a home […]
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Taking Learning Outside
Read Now ➞I’m a public elementary school teacher and I teach entirely outdoors in an outdoor classroom and garden. The number one […]
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Run, Jump, Splash …… and Read!
Read Now ➞By now, every caring parent knows how much learning and growth goes on in the outdoors without sophisticated equipment or […]
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Growing In-Sync Children
Read Now ➞Are Your Children In Sync? Do they… Move easily and effectively? Enjoy movement? Join in group games? Try new activities? […]
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Bring the Mud In: How to integrate mud play into our educational spaces
Read Now ➞We have all heard the term ‘mud play’ and many of us might even remember puddle jumping or mud pie […]
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Rough and Tumble Play
Read Now ➞In the African Serengeti, some years ago, while exploring animal play in the wild for the National Geographic Society, I […]
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Meatloaf Mountain
Read Now ➞Recently, I have been thinking about how teachers (including myself) sometimes refer to children’s work or play spaces as “a […]
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Things to Consider When Setting Up Your Environment for Curiosity and Wonder
Read Now ➞Have you ever looked at your environment with fresh eyes?Have you ever got down on your knees and viewed it […]
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Play is Inquiry! – Children’s and Teachers’ Research in Action
Read Now ➞For children, inquiry – their quest to understand how the world works – takes place through play (and we know […]
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Sensory Play Develops Survival Skills
Read Now ➞An advertisement from an electric power company dropped through my mail slot today, shouting, BLACKOUT: Could It Happen Again? It […]
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Loose Parts in Action!
Read Now ➞When my oldest daughter was about three years old, I was out for an afternoon with friends and my husband […]
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Crisscross-Applesauce: It’s Time to Move on From This Tradition
Read Now ➞How long could you sit crisscross-applesauce before you needed to move? For me, the answer is: about 20 seconds max! […]
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Stories of Daily Experiences are Perfect for Young Children
Read Now ➞One of the greatest contributions of puppetry for this age is bringing the rhythm of the year to children with […]
