Self-Serve Sensory Play for Child-Led Exploration
The goal of sensory play is to encourage children to explore the world around them—whether in a sensory bin, out in nature, or even...
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How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Balancing Screen Time with Art Time
Increased screen time can have a great - and potentially detrimental - impact on young children's social, emotional and cognitive growth. Young children learn best...
How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Captain of the Ship
There’s no doubt about it; we are living in a new norm in which the unpredictability of COVID-19 has left us with a mounting sense...
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
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
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
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?
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 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
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...