Next Steps - Continuing the conversation

To sustain your learning after the Playful Schools Conference you may:

• Collect a list of actionable ideas. (These might come from the “I wish we could’s…” Idea Box or the Circles of Action responses). Prioritize and set goals for manageable next steps.

• Create an ongoing digital forum to continue a playful exchange with each other.

• Agree to meet again in two months to share actions taken and any emerging results since the conference.

• Partner participants to check in with each other next month’s about what they are doing and how it is going. This can be done in a playful setting.

• Keep the Idea Box as an ongoing invitation to share playful learning ideas at your school. Invite students, families, and others to add their ideas too.

• Organize “playdates” for teachers. Could you devote an inservice day to playful learning? What about inviting gradelevel teachers to take a “Planning playful learning” field trip?

• Set up a book club about playful learning. You might start with the new Pedagogy of Play book.

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