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Innovating Block Play: Explore More, Build More, Play More

Keeping Caroline Pratt's main goals of totally open-ended, child-directed play at its heart, we at Guidecraft took on the challenge of innovating on her beautiful 100-year-old unit block system. 

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How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Keeping Hands Busy

How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Keeping Hands Busy

The world’s axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from the plane of its orbit around the sun and hasn’t changed significantly in the last 40,000 years....

Heart-Centered Environmental Design: A Fresh Perspective

Heart-Centered Environmental Design: A Fresh Perspective

Author, designer and teacher, Sandra Duncan, EdD, and the president of Guidecraft, Gary Bilezikian, were honored to collaborate and contribute to the 250th issue of Exchange...

Creating Nature-based Classrooms Webinar – Presented by Sandra Duncan and Jody Martin

Creating Nature-based Classrooms Webinar – Presented by Sandra Duncan and Jody Martin

When you think of the aesthetics of an early education classroom, what do you see? Brightly colored plastic toys. Shelves stacked high with lesson materials...

How to Design Inspiring Early Learning Spaces

How to Design Inspiring Early Learning Spaces

 When most people talk about designing an early childhood education program, they mean the curriculum, the funding, or the program. Not Dr. Sandra Duncan. When...

What Does Home Learning Look Like for Us?

What Does Home Learning Look Like for Us?

I’m a mom. I’m an architect. I’m a teacher. Those roles have each taken precedence in my life in differing ways in the past. Sometimes...

Lauren’s Learning Lab

Lauren’s Learning Lab

Lauren Magee — mother of a 3-year-old, 7-year-old and 9-year-old, architect, and educator — has recently found herself in a situation familiar to parents around the world,...

Welcome to Lauren’s Learning Lab

Welcome to Lauren’s Learning Lab

Lauren Magee — architect, educator, and mother of a 3, 7 and 9-year-old — has recently found herself in a situation familiar to parents around the world, with...

The Kids Help Design Their Home Learning Space – Lauren’s Learning Lab

The Kids Help Design Their Home Learning Space – Lauren’s Learning Lab

In this episode, Lauren Magee, an architect, teacher and mom, shares her process of engaging her 3-year-old, 7-year-old, and 9-year-old children in the design of...

10 Important Tips for Creating a Safer Learning Space at Home – Lauren’s Learning Lab

10 Important Tips for Creating a Safer Learning Space at Home – Lauren’s Learning Lab

In this episode of Lauren’s Learning Lab, architect, teacher and mom, Lauren Magee, shows other parents how to keep their children safe while distance learning....