Leave it to Community Playthings to convince me to break my rule against corporate sponsored teaching resources. Their new professional development guide The Wisdom of Play: Why Children at Play Are Their Own Best Teachers is outstanding. Their guide is free to anyone who asks. When school budgets are tight (as they are these days), [...]
Happy Labor Day weekend! Long weekends, especially this one which marks the end of summer and the start of the school year, beg the question…what are you going to do for fun? This week in the NY Times, Stuart Brown, MD gave us another good reminder that play is essential for people of all ages, [...]
I am reading a new book by Stuart Brown, M.D. and Christopher Vaughn. I was browsing in a book store, and of course the title jumped out at me – Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul. The author’s name was familiar, as I’d heard of him as the [...]