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Play Talks: The Research on Play and Language Development
"Talking It Up: Play, Language Development, and the Role of Adult Support," by Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Jennifer M. Zosh, Kathy...


Ready to Play? Research Opportunity for Early Childhood Educators
I am so excited to share this amazing project with you. The McNichol Early Childhood Lab at Drexel University is embarking on a...


Stop Whitewashing Nature Play
Nature play isn't new and offering it to children can provide more than just new opportunities, it can provide a deep cultural connection...


Do early childhood teachers practice selective listening when it comes to racism?
If you were raised to be "colorblind" (hello fellow millennials) you probably instinctively panic inside at any suggestion of racism. We...


Nature Talks: Outdoor play may enhance children's language development
The research study, "Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool" by Ekaterina Novikova,...


Doing It Anyway: Risky Play and Outdoor Learning in Early Years
"We do it anyway": Professional identities of teachers who enact risky play as a framework for Education Outdoors" by Megan Zeni, Leyton...


Peer rejections and play: Listening to What children say they need
"Free play is a distinctive form of child-centred activity, in which children’s motivation to play reflects both their needs to develop a...


Play for all, all for play: Strategies for supporting inclusive play
This research by Kangas et al., (2023) addresses the need to support inclusive play for all children. While previous research emphasized...


Beyond the Binary- Evaluating early childhood educators' beliefs on gendered play
Paul McCabe's new research, "Early childhood educators' beliefs about child behavior and adult outcomes related to gender and play,"...


Parents, Phonics, and Play
In the paper, "Phonics and play-literacy: Parental expectations of an early childhood literacy program" the author, Stacey Campbell,...


Making Play Work for Anti-Racism
The article "Interrogating the 'gold standard': Play-based early childhood education and perpetuating white supremacy" by Kinard, T.,...


FREE “Pedagogy of Play” book from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education
I am so excited to share access to this with you because I fangirl hard for everything that Harvard's Graduate School of Education...


It’s Play, Not Pie: Inequities in Children’s Access to Play
It's play, not pie. There's enough for every child and yet not every child is getting it. Ijumaa Jordan shares why we need to be looking...


Embracing and Enabling Risky Play: Lessons for risk-averse cultures
“Be careful!” “Don’t fall!” “Get down from there!” Why can’t we just let them play? Cultural attitudes towards risky play definitely...


Facilitating SEL Skills Through Play
"Kindergarten teachers’ facilitation of social and emotional learning in classroom play contexts" by Nicole Larsen and Angela Pyle, et al...
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