From fostering creativity to encouraging your child's social and emotional growth, pretend play—or imaginative play—is ...

Sonnets Academy focuses on helping its students feel heard. Two experts share how social emotional learning helps children learn to control their emotions and better communicate. When it comes to ...

SIOUX FALL, S.D. (KELO) — With the extreme temperatures there was no school today for catholic schools and the Sioux Falls school district shifted to a virtual learning day. The Washington Pavilion ...

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Teaching younger children through 'guided' play can support key aspects of their learning and development at least as well, and sometimes better, than traditional, direct instruction, according to a ...

February 5, 2026 - Fresno Unified invested $30 million in services that go beyond traditional academics, from housing assistance to music production and lunchtime sports. When it comes to early ...

Adults and kids love Bluey. This Australian animated show – hugely popular in the U.S. as well – focuses on a family of blue heeler dogs living in Brisbane. The seven-minute episodes feature ...

Playtime isn’t just all fun and games. Kids learn important developmental and social skills through playing with others and by themselves. Associative play is one of the six stages of play — a ...

Ladderworks is a publishing platform of diverse picture books and online curriculum with the mission to empower over a million kids to become social entrepreneurs. Our current series features ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Researchers at RTI International, with support from toy giant LEGO’s foundation, are launching an effort to develop tools that will measure how children learn through play.

“We learn through play here,” one kindergarten teacher says.

Global trends of increased forced displacement, both internal and across borders, persist in the East Africa region. Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda collectively hosted over 3 million refugees and ...