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When Children Make the Rules – Building Self Agency Through Play

For the most part children lead lives where most decisions are made for them. And often when they do get ...
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Teasing Apart Play from the Evidence Left Behind

If you are an early childhood educator there is a good chance you have had some exposure to theories of ...
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Playcosystem Volunteer Day April 25

The Children at Play Network is looking for volunteers to join the CAPN Playcosystem Landscape Team! The CAPN Landscape Team ...
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Olmsted Parks Conservancy – Free Play Days – April 6 and 7 2022

Wednesday, April 6 in Cherokee Park at Baringer Hill playground from 1:00-5:00 Thursday, April 7th in Iroquois Park at the ...
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CAPN Adds New Trainer

The Children at Play Network has added a new training specialist to the CAPN team to expand professional development opportunities ...
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Podcast for Play

CAPN Director Claude Stephens is featured on the Earth and Spirit Podcast in conversation with host Kyle T. Kramer, Executive ...
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Louisville Nature Center Visits Playcosystem

The Children at Play Network was pleased to host Rebecca Minnick, Executive Director of the Louisville Nature Center (LNC), and ...
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Sacred Heart Preschool at Playcosystem

By Austin Nikolich, Director, Sacred Heart Preschool Sacred Heart Preschool is dedicated to creating and nurturing a play-centered curriculum for ...
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Play is the Way: An In-Depth Series on Putting Play Into Your Practice

In partnership with Sacred Heart Preschool and Thrive Parent and Teacher Consultants, Bernheim’s Children at Play Network will present an ...
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Free Play Days at Olmsted Parks

By Matt Spalding, Olmsted Parks Olmsted Parks Conservancy, a valued partner of the Children at Play Network, is pleased to ...
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Virtual Campference Sept. 24th, 2021

Pop-Up Adventure Play in partnership with Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest’s Children at Play Network is delighted to announce this ...
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Nelson County Early Learning Center uses Playcosystem for Classroom Inspiration

Over the past several months Bernheim staff members have been meeting with Nelson County Schools teachers and administrators to foster ...
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They Hardly Hit the Ground Before Forts Were Built

Today we added 125 clean milk crates to Playcosystem. (A donation from Against the Grain Brewery) We pulled the truck ...
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Children Have a Right to be Included in the Design of Play Spaces

One of the core beliefs of the Children at Play Network is that children should have agency over their play ...
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Backside Learning Center Tests Out Playcosystem

The Backside Learning Center at Churchill Downs recently brought out 30 children to help us test out the new Playcosystem ...
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Embracing Risk in Play

By Austin Nikolich, Curriculum Director, Sacred Heart Preschool Over the years Sacred Heart Preschool has been engaged in a deep ...
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Louisville Nature Center’s Forest Preschool Opens

Swallowtail Forest School, which opened at the Louisville Nature Center on Sept. 21, is the first of its kind in ...
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The Evolution of a Play-Based Preschool Program

09-22-2020 By Austin Nikolich, Director of Curriculum, Sacred Heart Preschool, Louisville, KY Sacred Heart Preschool embarked on a large-scale overhaul ...
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New Playgrounds at 4-C Early Learning Centers

The Children at Play Network recently visited three new natural playgrounds at 4-C, Community Coordinated Childcare, early learning centers and ...
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Thrive Forest School Reopens

Children returned to Thrive Forest Preschool, for a full re-opening of the school in August following its closure in the ...
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