For Your Binder

Setting up a Process-Oriented Classroom: Learning from the Journey in a "Yes-Environment"
2017

Getting closer to YES!  #teaching #learning #art #creativity #play

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The Healing Power of Play: Therapeutic Work with Chronically Neglected and Abused Children
2014

This is one of the most bittersweet pieces I've ever read.  It will break your heart and yet show you how to repair it all at the same time. Read: the pure power of PLAY.  #play #playwork #teaching #learning

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What I’m NOT Saying When I Speak About Developmentally Appropriate Practice
2017

Enough with the false dichotomies already!!!!  Child-centered doesn’t mean the kids run the show and warm & caring early childhood settings are not the opposite of intellectual ones.  #DAP #play #learning #teaching 

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End Homework Now
2001

Educators should stop squeezing time out of family life for the questionable benefits of homework. #homework #teaching #learning

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Preschool education: Go big or go home? Tennessee study calls benefit of public preschool into question
2015

This article is in response to the release of some preliminary data for what is now known as the Vanderbilt Study (final results were released in early 2022).  Even then we could see what the results ended up actually indicating... that children need to #play 

#teaching #learning #DAP 

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