Name: Play is the Plan: Early Learning That Sticks!
Start: 2025-06-20T14:15:00-0500
End: 2025-06-20T15:30:00-0500

Friday June 20, 2025 2:15pm - 3:30pm CDT

Innovate B

In early childhood, play isn’t just recess—it’s the richest, most powerful pathway to learning. This session explores the magic and mechanics of play-based learning, with practical strategies to support and scaffold students to grow from parallel play to rich, mature, collaborative experiences. We’ll explore ways to guide and expand student play through intentional modeling, prompts, and storytelling, while embedding meaningful learning into playful, project-based experiences. Whether building dramatic play centers, diving into fairy tale engineering challenges, or using puppets to support SEL, you’ll leave with ideas to implement tomorrow—and a renewed belief in the transformative power of play.

Speakers

Mary Eldredge

Early Childhood Librarian at Kooken Educational Center, Arlington ISD

Mary Eldredge is a magical mix of early-childhood educator, joyful librarian, and clever creator —all rolled into one glitter-glue-splattered champion of children. After years of teaching, she followed her heart and became a librarian. Now, her days are filled with reading, dancing... Read More →

Friday June 20, 2025 2:15pm - 3:30pm CDT
Innovate B

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Early Childhood Days of Play June 2025

Mary Eldredge

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