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Children Have a Right to be Included in the Design of Play Environments

Children Have a Right to be Included in the Design of Play Environments

Children are the professionals when it comes to play and what makes a great playground. Design efforts that don’t include ...
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Common Earth Gardens visits Playcosystem for Deisgn Inspiration

Common Earth Gardens visits Playcosystem for Deisgn Inspiration

The Children at Play Network team was delighted to host a team from Common Earth Gardens and St. Ignatius Martyr ...
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Welcome Aboard Ashley - Spalding Univ. Capstone Student

Welcome Aboard Ashley – Spalding Univ. Capstone Student

The Children at Play Network welcomes aboard Ashley Byrd, a doctoral capstone project student from Spalding University Auerbach School of ...
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Play Workshop at Playcosystem for Second Presbyterian Weekday School

Play Workshop at Playcosystem for Second Presbyterian Weekday School

The entire staff of Second Presbyterian Weekday School (Louisville KY) visited Playcosystem recently to take part in a six-hour teacher ...
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Teasing Apart Play from the Evidence Left Behind

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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Teaching Science Through Play

Teaching Science Through Play

Dr. Sherri Brown, Associate Professor for Science Education from the University of Louisville College of Education and Human Development, brought ...
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Playcosystem Volunteer Day April 25

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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Louisville Nature Center Visits Playcosystem

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

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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Nelson County Early Learning Center uses Playcosystem for Classroom Inspiration

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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VIPS Visits Playcosystem

VIPS Visits Playcosystem

In early August the Playcosystem team had a very productive first meeting with Paige Maynard and Staci Maynard who work ...
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Playcosystem Has Reach

Playcosystem Has Reach

People are starting to hear about Playcosystem outside of our immediate region and some are arranging overnight trips to come ...
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They Hardly Hit the Ground Before Forts Were Built

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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Place Making with the Outdoor Collaborative - Treehouse Design

Place Making with the Outdoor Collaborative – Treehouse Design

The Outdoor Collaborative made their way back out to Bernheim’s Playcosystem to help us dream up great ideas for a ...
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Outdoor Collaborative - Seal of Approval

Outdoor Collaborative – Seal of Approval

Soon after Playcosystem opened a family oriented forest school called The Outdoor Collaborative visited. What was fun for us to ...
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Playcosystem Pole Scramble Gets Installed

Playcosystem Pole Scramble Gets Installed

One of the last major elements of Playcosystem was installed recently. We have know all along that this play experience ...
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Kentucky Country Day School visits Playcosystem

Kentucky Country Day School visits Playcosystem

With a global resurgence in the work of valuing outdoor play in nature, many schools are thinking about adding new ...
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Children Have a Right to be Included in the Design of Play Spaces

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

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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