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The Value of Play I: The definition of play gives insights

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2008

Outlines the need and practice of play in schools, including its benefits and definition as "play."

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Lisa WennerthA white woman with long blond hair.
Lisa is a high school English Language Arts teacher, online education facilitator for CEA, and department chair. She's kicked the grading habit and structures her classroom for humans.
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Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.
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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

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Jacqueline is a Director of Equity and Inclusion, committed to establishing institutional equity & culturally responsive practices.

The Time Has Chosen US

August 19, 2020

Drawing from my years as a kindergarten teacher, when it comes to talking about disparities and inequalities, I find simplicity and practice are essential to the learning process and the ability to empathize, no matter what our differences or how we see the world.
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The difference with school communities, just looking at a normal mainstream school community, what I perceive is a community where there's lots of external goals. You've got five stickers for being great. You've got three they call them smiley faces or they have a name for something. So there's an external reward for being good. For me, it's just like, "Eh-eh." It's such a fundamentally wrong thing in a community to have that as your basis of if you're good or bad.

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