The President of Let Grow's piece in this week's issue of THE Journal, a magazine for educators, looks at how to make kids less passive and worried: BY LENORE SKENAZY...
To fight bullying successfully, you first have to understand where it's coming from, writes Kevin Stinehart in eSchoolNews. Stinehart is a 4th grade teacher at a Title 1 (high poverty)...
There are about 100 Acton Children's Business Fairs a year By David Kirby Traditional approaches to teaching entrepreneurship too often become a boring exercise in classroom abstraction. Compare this to...
When Yellowstone Reduced its Wolves, Eco-Disaster Ensued. And When America Started Reducing Play Time…
"The analogy is obvious," says Playworks' founder Jill Vialet. Embarrassingly, when I first heard about Playworks a decade ago, I rolled my eyes. An organization that sends recess coaches to...
The Startling Things That Happened When a Youth Sports Program Replaced Some Drill Time with Free Play
A radical experiment that could have backfired, didn't! Kids with more time for unstructured play and less for drills at sports practice ended up better players all around.
Deep, Meaningful Play Takes Self-Control…on the Part of the Adults
Like an animal behaviorist studying bonobos in the wild, Peter Gray found himself in the playroom at his church after services were over. Gray is a co-founder of Let Grow...
Updated & Expanded Second Edition of “Free-Range Kids” to be Published Tomorrow! Provides All-New Insights for Parents and Educators
Author and Let Grow President Lenore Skenazy expands on her classic, and reflects on the impact of the movement over the past decade The updated and expanded second edition of...
Straightforward Tips from a 7th Grade Teacher Who Has Watched Her Students Growing Passive & Anxious These Past Few Years
"Students don't even open the classroom door when someone knocks. They look around for someone else to do it." As a seventh grade teacher for over 25 years, I have...
Watch the video, below. Happy kids, free play and clean COVID score-card. It's all happening in South Carolina, thanks to 4th grade teacher Kevin Stinehart. Kevin had started a Let...
When P.E. Teacher Let His Students Organize their Own Games Outside, He Was Blown Away
They learned to move and try new challenges, but that was just the beginning. Today's 19-year-olds are as sedentary as adults age 60. That was the startling discovery of Vadim...
Housework as Homework: Middle School Assigns “Let Grow Project” During Covid and Students Start Helping Out More
Filling a vacuum -- literally Sometime in the misty past, parents possessed a sort of road map. Collectively they pretty much knew at about what age their kids could or...
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