For Your Binder

A little shameless plug here! In the summer of 2020 the Texas Child Care Quarterly published four book reviews and I was honored to see that my book, Lisa Murphy on... Being Child Centered was one of the ones they included!  This link will take you to all four - mine is the last one.  #teaching #learning #environment #press #play 

Read more about the growing movement to reconnect children & nature and how to battle nature deficit disorder. The future of children in nature has profound implications not only for the conservation of land but also for the direction of the environmental movement. #outside #nature #play

Here for you is a scan of the full article from 1996! Play #art #creativity #teaching #learning #DAP

Part I in a series by Peter Gray.   He says his goal for the series is to examine teaching from the ground up. He starts here by defining teaching and presents evidence that teaching occurs in at least some non-human animals. An examination of teaching in other species may lead to insights that will be useful for understanding teaching in our species. #teaching #learning #DAP #play

The art of making a space for the playfulness and messiness of teaching requires courage and letting go! #learning #teaching #creativity #art

Taking a cue from the bees! #DAP #play #teaching #learning

Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed. #risk #parenting #resilience #play

Despite evidence that play and social interactions are crucial to cognitive development, schools continue to take recess away. #recess #teaching #learning #outside #movement #DAP #pushdown

A classroom environment is a public statement about the educational values of the program AND the teacher.  What does your say? #environment #art #create #teaching #learning

A Q/A session with Gever Tulley, co-author of Fifty Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do  #risk #play #DAP #outside #parenting #teaching

While Lisa is not implying that you would interrupt a child at play in order to "get" a story, she does think this is a useful tool to have in our tool belts for when the situation is right. Calling on the work of Bev Bos, Vivian Paley & Barry Sanders, not only does this workshop walk you through a story writing process, it also reminds participants of the importance of orality and that we were a talking species before we were a literate one!! #handouts #DAP #stories #teaching #theorists

While this workshop is now a stand-alone session, it used to be a part of the Books and Stories session that was captured on DVD while back.  Did you miss it? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool  

Age is not always an accurate predictor of a child's actual development.  #DAP #learning #teaching #mixedages