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MOST RECENT VIDEOS
The City College of New York's High Quality Early Learning Project Video Series (2018):
New York State's Crisis in Early Education - Teachers Speak Out. Kindergarten teacher Biana Tanis produced this 20 minute documentary to address the inappropriate New York State standards in preschools, kindergartens, and the early elementary years. She interviews early childhood teachers who speak passionately about the role of play in their classrooms and why it's at risk. August, 2017.
Are young kids losing the brain-boosting benefits of playtime? Featuring DEY Senior Advisor Nancy Carlsson-Paige and DEY Co-Director Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin at Mission Hill School; on PBS News Hour, July 5, 2016.
ADDITIONAL VIDEOS
DEY’s video: Lively Minds: Distinction between Academic and Intellectual Goals for Young Children, 2015.
DEY’s video: Reading Instruction in Kindergarten: Little to Gain and Much to Lose – with the Alliance for Childhood, 2015.
DEY’s Workshop Presentation at Network for Public Education’s National Conference in April, 2015, Chicago, IL.
When Education Goes Wrong: Taking the Creativity and Play Out of Learning, a Tedx Talk by Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige, April 1, 2013.
A Year at Mission Hill. A 10-part video series chronicling the rhythms and relationships of a year in the life of one of America’s most successful public schools, located in Boston, MA, 2013.
See How They Play. This film explores Magda Gerber's Educaring Approach to play for infants and toddlers, encouraging time for play and exploration for even the youngest infants. Available as a DVD or on YouTube. Resources for Infant Educarers, 2013. www.rie.org
"Play Again: What Are the Consequences of a Childhood Removed from Nature?" Documentary featuring Richard Louv, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Diane Levin, Susan Linn, and other educators and environmentalists. 2013.
What Kindergarten Should Be, a Tedx Talk by Dr. Doris Fromberg, October 22, 2012.
The Role of Play in the Overly Academic Kindergarten by The Gesell Institute. This seven-and-a-half minute YouTube video is well worth your time and is easily shared with others. “Play is being banished from kindergarten classrooms across the U.S. Learn how this is impacting the nation’s youth. Narrated by Marcy Guddemi, Executive Director of the Gesell Institute, 2010.
The Learning Child Series, produced by Jonathan Diamond Associates in collaboration with Sarah Lawrence College Child Development Institute, 2009.
"Where Do the Children Play?" Documentary produced by Michigan Public Television.
The City College of New York's High Quality Early Learning Project Video Series (2018):
New York State's Crisis in Early Education - Teachers Speak Out. Kindergarten teacher Biana Tanis produced this 20 minute documentary to address the inappropriate New York State standards in preschools, kindergartens, and the early elementary years. She interviews early childhood teachers who speak passionately about the role of play in their classrooms and why it's at risk. August, 2017.
Are young kids losing the brain-boosting benefits of playtime? Featuring DEY Senior Advisor Nancy Carlsson-Paige and DEY Co-Director Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin at Mission Hill School; on PBS News Hour, July 5, 2016.
ADDITIONAL VIDEOS
DEY’s video: Lively Minds: Distinction between Academic and Intellectual Goals for Young Children, 2015.
DEY’s video: Reading Instruction in Kindergarten: Little to Gain and Much to Lose – with the Alliance for Childhood, 2015.
DEY’s Workshop Presentation at Network for Public Education’s National Conference in April, 2015, Chicago, IL.
When Education Goes Wrong: Taking the Creativity and Play Out of Learning, a Tedx Talk by Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige, April 1, 2013.
A Year at Mission Hill. A 10-part video series chronicling the rhythms and relationships of a year in the life of one of America’s most successful public schools, located in Boston, MA, 2013.
See How They Play. This film explores Magda Gerber's Educaring Approach to play for infants and toddlers, encouraging time for play and exploration for even the youngest infants. Available as a DVD or on YouTube. Resources for Infant Educarers, 2013. www.rie.org
"Play Again: What Are the Consequences of a Childhood Removed from Nature?" Documentary featuring Richard Louv, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Diane Levin, Susan Linn, and other educators and environmentalists. 2013.
What Kindergarten Should Be, a Tedx Talk by Dr. Doris Fromberg, October 22, 2012.
The Role of Play in the Overly Academic Kindergarten by The Gesell Institute. This seven-and-a-half minute YouTube video is well worth your time and is easily shared with others. “Play is being banished from kindergarten classrooms across the U.S. Learn how this is impacting the nation’s youth. Narrated by Marcy Guddemi, Executive Director of the Gesell Institute, 2010.
The Learning Child Series, produced by Jonathan Diamond Associates in collaboration with Sarah Lawrence College Child Development Institute, 2009.
"Where Do the Children Play?" Documentary produced by Michigan Public Television.