The teachers at Families Together Cooperative Nursery School have many skills and talents but one particular area of strength is their ability to develop emergent curriculum activities in response to children’s interests. For example, one day this spring the Junipers...

My NAEYC workshop on "Young Children and Climate Change" focuses on the importance of exploratory play in building children’s creativity, resilience, and hope. Play empowers children as change agents because it prepares them for imagining and constructing solutions to...

On October 14, I presented at workshop at the GOAEYC annual conference titled “Water Science: Fun STEM Activities for Young Children” and on November 17 I will be presenting a workshop at the NAEYC annual conference titled “Climate Change and Young Children: The...