Webinar: Making Change Happen - From Traditional to Outdoor Play-Based Learning
Many early childhood professionals today are responding to the research underscoring the transformative benefits of free play and nature-based learning on young children. However, even when small steps taken, creating a cohesive plan in the same school (or even in the same classroom) can feel overwhelming. This webinar showcases a group of change-makers themselves as they share how their school's early childhood program evolved from a traditional, academically focused preparatory school, to one that’s now rooted in an outdoor play-based learning approach and how they accomplished it together.
- Early Childhood
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Mensch-ify is an alternative learning program that is held twice a month for families with children in Pre-K to 6th grade. It is a developmentally appropriate program, built upon the parent-child co-learning experience, that combines stories, songs, art, movement, and play to provide families with the tools they need to live a Jewish life that works for them.
Mayim, our initial example of "Additional" Models, could be placed in a Multi-aged, Project-Based Learning, or Experiential Learning bucket. Mayim is a K-5 learning community in which depth of relationships and depth of learning are intentionally fostered and visible everywhere.
Adventures in Jewish Education weaves Jewish learning and Hebrew into an all-day, once a month, active outdoor experience.