Edutopia

Balancing Play-Based Learning With Literacy Mandates in Preschool

These strategies help teachers set up engaging and enriching opportunities for literacy exploration throughout the day.
Education Week

Play-Based Learning in Kindergarten Is Making a Comeback. Here’s What It Means

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...
Daily Herald

U-46 to show documentary on play-based kindergarten

Elgin Area School District U-46 will host a free screening on Tuesday, Jan. 22, for "Kindergarten: Where Play and Learning Can Meet," a new documentary that was filmed partially at the district's ...
WTNH

What’s Right With Schools: How Beecher Road Elementary’s ‘play-based learning’ helped kindergarten classes during the pandemic

(WTNH) — At Beecher Road Elementary School in Woodbridge, their kindergarten classes are built around a play-based program. This year has been no different, but it’s played a huge role in helping the ...
KING5

'Play-based' learning mandatory for Tumwater kindergartners

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — The Tumwater School District has implemented mandatory play-based learning across all kindergarten classrooms, requiring one hour of daily free play while maintaining ...