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Designing Play-Based Classrooms
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
Presented by Mariah Douglass Bruehl, Educator, Author, and CEO and Founder of Playful Learning
Moderated by Jacki Schulze, Director and Curriculum Team Member, Playful Learning Studio
Sponsored by Playful Learning
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A thoughtfully prepared classroom environment can have a powerful impact on a child’s learning and behavior. This edWebinar guides early childhood teachers through the process of designing classrooms that bring the learning process to life while increasing student engagement. Throughout our time together we share inspiration for creating areas that invite children to engage in reading, writing, science, art, and more. We also discuss organization, storage, and selecting materials for different ages and stages of child development.
Join Mariah Douglass Bruehl, educator and author, for some teaching inspiration and back-to-school preparation—and leave feeling ready to dive into your classroom setup with practical tips and resources that you can put to good use right away. Viewers receive:
- A downloadable workbook with slides of the presentation, practical setup ideas with photos, and a list of favorite playful picks to start the year off right
- One week of free lessons and resources created by Playful Learning’s talented team of teachers and designers
- An opportunity to talk shop as we prepare for a brand-new school year full of playful-based learning
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to PreK-3 teachers, school leaders, and district leaders.
About the Presenter
Mariah Douglass Bruehl is an educator, founder, and author of the books Playful Learning: Develop Your Child’s Sense of Joy and Wonder and Real-Life Rules: A Young Person’s Guide to Self-Discovery, Big Ideas, and Healthy Habits. She has been in education as a teacher and leader for over 30 years with a Master of Science degree in education from Bank Street College. In 2008 she brought her expertise online, creating Playful Learning, a website for educators and parents with access to play-based curricula and hands-on experiences. Playful Learning Studio opened its doors in the spring of 2015 and provides preschool programs for local children ages 18 months to six years. Bridging the world of research and practice, Playful Learning shares curricula, professional development, and support with teachers, schools, and families worldwide seeking to implement guided-play programs.
About the Moderator
Jacki Schulze serves as the Director of the Playful Learning Studio, as well as a member of the curriculum team. She has been working in the field of education for close to 20 years. She is an experienced elementary and early childhood teacher, private tutor, and curriculum writer. Through her love of exploring, experimenting, and creating she strives to help facilitate the natural ways children learn every day. Jacki has a B.A. in Art History and an M.A. in Childhood Education. She previously worked as an Elementary Teacher and Learning Specialist at Ross School in Bridgehampton, New York. After having her own children, she worked as a Head Teacher at It Takes A Village, a nature-based preschool in Hampton Bays, New York. When not working with students at Playful Learning you can find Jacki gardening, cooking, walking her dog, and trying to keep up with her active and creative family.
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Playful Learning is a method of early childhood education that artfully weaves together play with learning. Our innovative early childhood curriculum and hands-on experiences are developed in-house by our team of educators and implemented daily in our highly curated early childhood classrooms and gardens. Once curriculum has been vetted in our studio, it is made available to teachers and schools worldwide through our online membership, professional development, and hands-on classroom materials.
Having merged both in-person and online worlds, Playful Learning shares the curriculum, research, and development taking place in our preschool studio with teachers, schools, and community organizations interested in creating play-based programs through our online membership and materials. This process creates an ongoing cycle of teaching and learning where educators are consistently collaborating on, improving, and reflecting on their practice—as well as how to adapt it to meet the needs of individual students and communities.
