Monday, October 03, 2022

Play Is How Learning Becomes One With Living

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.  ~John Dewey People tend to have one of two responses when ...
Friday, September 30, 2022

We Must Demand Play-Based Education Because, Damn It, That's What The Evidence Tells Us

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According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Economic Forum, and Unicef  (and according...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Treating Children Like People

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I sometimes forget how radical our ideas are about young children. I forget that not everyone trusts children even if most p...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

I Want To Help You Develop Your Own Unique Approach To Play-Based Learning

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I started this blog in 2009 simply because I'd written a couple articles for  Seattle's Child  magazine that I thoug...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

"Children Do Not Like Being Incompetent Any More Than They Like Being Ignorant"

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"Children do not like being incompetent any more than they like being ignorant. They want to learn how to do, and do we...
Monday, September 26, 2022

The Key To Our Deeper Sense Of Self

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As a child, my family moved around a lot. I'd called four places home before my first day of kindergarten. I attended th...
Friday, September 23, 2022

What I Learned When I Declined The Urge To Blather

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Two freshly-minted three-year-olds were playing on the floor, not together, but near one another. I was lying amidst them, f...