Chapter Five: How Can Educators Create a Schoolwide Culture of Playful Learning?

How can you support playful learning in the classroom, staffroom, and beyond? In this episode, we share five schoolwide practices, with accompanying strategies for fostering a school culture that enables playful learning to thrive:

1. Build shared understandings about playful learning
2. Leverage school structures like curriculum, assessment, and the physical environment to support playful learning
3. Provide professional learning opportunities that center learning through play
4. Foster playful community connections
5. Lead playfully

 

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