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How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Establishing Routines

How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Establishing Routines

image © shutterstock_1089847160 There’s no denying it—we are living in a new normal with families now living, working, and learning all together under one roof....

How to Design Socially Distanced Classrooms During COVID-19 – Presentation by Dr. Sandra Duncan and Lauren Mage

How to Design Socially Distanced Classrooms During COVID-19 – Presentation by Dr. Sandra Duncan and Lauren Mage

In a recent edWebinar presentation sponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company, Dr. Sandra Duncan, author, educator and classroom design expert, and Lauren Magee, licensed architect and Director of...

How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Importance of Hideaways for Kids

How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Importance of Hideaways for Kids

For the past few months, the common thread of COVID-19 has changed all our lives. Through this change, we’ve discovered many things about our children,...

How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Balancing Screen Time with Art Time

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

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

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...