Resources




  • EC Special Ed. Activities & Early Learning Standards 
  • Feeling Buddies Cirriculum (Conscious Discipline)
  • The value of play
  • Who practices his speech more?
  • How to Encourage Kids to Talk
  • www.navsaria.com
  • Classroom Center Signs 
  • Teaching Strategies - GOLD
  • Today's Play...Tomorrow's Success (Microsoft Word doc)
  • A Moving Child is a Learning Child
  • How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
  • Kaymbu
  • Play - zerotothree.org
  • Dr. Rick's Blog - Play, Autism, and the PLAY Project
  • Why young kids need less class time - and more play time - at school
  • The Storybook Journey: Pathways to Learning through Story and Play
  • Why I Don't Like Play Based Learning
  • 4 Thinks Your Children Absolutely Do Not Need (and What to Give Them Instead)
  • http://www.speechpathology.com/
  • Crisis in the Kindergarten
  • www.ooeygooey.com
  • Early Childhood Experiences: Laying the Foundation for Health Across a Lifetime
  • Mom's Viral 'Experiment' Urges Parents to Rethink Screen Time
  • Speech Paths blog
  • www.education.com articles
  • The Pyramid Model for Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Young Children Fact Sheet
  • It's OK to Go Up the Slide: Renegade Rules for Raising Confident and Creative Kids
  • WMELS Model Academic Standards
  • DPI Goal: A Strong Early Childhood Community in Wisconsin
  • The Importance of Play in the Development of Language Skills
  • Building Literacy with Love: A Guide for Teachers and Caregivers of Children Birth Through Age 5
  • Center Signs (Microsoft Word doc)
  • Texas School Triples Recess Time And Sees Immediate Positive Results In Kids
  • Learning to Learn Behaviors Assessment
  • 10 Things Every Parent Should Know about Play
  • Play To Talk: A Practical Guide to Help Your Late-Talking Child Join the Conversation 
  • Learning Through Play book
  • Why play is important (Poster)
  • Claire Warden - Educational Consultant
  • Mindstretchers
  • Nature Pedagogy
  • The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
  • Notching Up the Nurtured Heart Approach - The New Inner Wealth Initiative for Educators
  • Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
  • ReMoved (YouTube video)
  • The Power of Observation
  • The Power of Play - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
  • A Moving Body, A Thinking Brain (book)
  • Is Play on its Way Out?
  • News & Resources from UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
  • Want to get your kids into college?  Let them play
  • The Worksheet Dilemma: Benefits of Play-Based Curricula
  • Center Signs
  • Can Free Play Prevent Depression and Anxiety In Kids?
  • The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
  • Empowering Parents
  • Home-School Connections
  • Bright Horizons
  • Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
  • Child's Play
  • Laura Mize, Pediatric SLP, YouTube Video
  • Laura Mize, Pretend Play With Toddlers Therapy Tip of the Week YouTube Video
  • We're Going on a Bear Hunt
  • Growth Mindset
  • Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
  • Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children
  • SEFEL - Collaborating Partners
  • When Play Isn't Fun
  • Making Early Learning Standards Come Alive
  • Early Elementary Children Moving and Learning
  • A Professionals Guide to Assisting Families in Creating Play Environments for Children with Disabilities
  • More Play, Please
  • What is the teacher's role in supporting play in early childhood classrooms?
  • Keeping Play in Kindergarten
  • Thirty Million Words
  • Literacy Play
  • The Storybook Journey
  • Lisa Murphy on Play: The Foundation of a Child's Learning
  • The Alert Program
  • Zones of Regulation Program
  • Too Small to Fail
  • Social and Emotional Development
  • Mother Goose on the Loose
  • Dad's First Day
  • Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority
  • Earlychildhood News
  • Play in Preschool: Why it Matters
  • Educational and Parenting Articles
  • 18 Dramatic Play Themes
  • Free Pretend Play Printables
  • Wonderplay
  • The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds
  • Incidental Learning: What Is It?
  • I Can Do That
  • Brain Insights