Tag: Power Play
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10/28/2026 | Using Tools With Kids
Description Using tools makes kids feel strong, capable, confident, and powerful. This session looks at setting up learning-rich and safe tool-use experiences for young children. We also offer tips to help adults who feel intimidated by tools get more comfortable with them, so they can better support tool-wielding kids. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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10/14/2026 | Rethinking Behavior Management
Description Caregivers often see behavior management as separate from curriculum. For example, some teachers feel that dealing with children’s behaviors distracts from their teaching. This training looks at integrating behavior management into the curriculum to improve social and emotional learning. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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07/22/2026 | Conducting Benefit-Risk Assessments
Description This training equips early learning professionals with the knowledge and skills to conduct comprehensive benefit-risk assessments so they can more effectively support developmentally appropriate risk-taking while ensuring children’s health and safety. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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06/10/2026 | Getting Comfortable With Risky Play
Description While research is clear on the value of children taking reasonable risks as they play and explore the world, many adults need to be more comfortable with such play and exploration. This session offers adults a chance to gain a deeper understanding of risky play’s value, reflect on their feelings about such play, and…
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05/13/2026 | Supporting Bad Behavior
Description Activities like running, climbing, throwing, spilling, punching, pinching, kicking, biting, tattling, and yelling are often labeled as bad behavior. Many early learning settings attempt to limit them–if not outright ban them. This session takes a contrarian view, looking at these activities as learning opportunities, and offers ideas for encouraging and supporting them. These things…
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02/11/2026 | Zombie Vampire Veterinarian Moms
Description Weapons, rough-and-tumble, superhero, death, and similar types of play often get a bad rap in early learning settings. Attempts are made to restrict and outright ban these types of play because they are loud, rowdy, aggressive, violent-looking, and can make adults uncomfortable. The problem is such play is ripe with learning possibilities and developmental…
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01/28/2026 | Simple Machines In The Preschool Classroom
Description This session looks at supporting play and STEM learning with the six classic simple machines (ramps, wedges, levers, screws, pulleys, and the wheel and axle). We’ll provide an overview of these machines, offer ideas for supporting play with them in your preschool classroom, and discuss why kids should have hands-on, self-directed experiences. Browse Training FAQs…
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01/21/2026 | Understanding Heavy Work
Description Heavy work refers to activities that push or pull against the body or involve carrying. Such activities support physical, social, and emotional development. Sadly, 21st-century kids engage in much less heavy work than previous generations. This training looks at heavy work’s role in learning and development, shares many examples of heavy work, and explores…
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12/02/2025 | Understanding Heavy Work
Description Heavy work refers to activities that push or pull against the body or involve carrying. Such activities support physical, social, and emotional development. Sadly, 21st-century kids engage in much less heavy work than previous generations. This training looks at heavy work’s role in learning and development, shares many examples of heavy work, and explores…
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09/09/2025 | Using Tools With Kids
Description Using tools makes kids feel strong, capable, confident, and powerful. This session looks at setting up learning-rich and safe tool-use experiences for young children. We also offer tips to help adults who feel intimidated by tools get more comfortable with them, so they can better support tool-wielding kids. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance