The full detailed schedule is coming soon…but until then, below is an alphabetical list of the MORE THAN 60 recorded Educational Sessions and Research Symposium Sessions that will be core content for the 2021 VIRTUAL Conference on the Value of Play: PLAY IS SURVIVAL, available online from April 1 through June 30.
As we prepare for our second online Play Conference, there is a renewed intensity to connect play advocates, educate our national and global community, support play research and publications, and truly fulfill our mission to promote the VALUE of play throughout life. We continue to incorporate phenomenal speakers and resources with unique opportunities for learning through play!
- A Play-Based Literacy Program for The Professional Development of Reception Year Teachers
- A Prescription for Play in Education
- Access for All: Providing Equitable Hands-On Learning Experiences in A Digital World
- All Ages, All Abilities, All the Time
- Beyond Candyland: Learning Through Making Board Games
- Big Body Play Powers A Child’s Learning Trajectory
- Capture the Flag: How Traditionally Marginalized Residents Reclaim Urban Space Through Play
- Circus Is an International Language
- Crazy Games Workshop Explores Using Low Cost Materials Outside Normal Usage to Create Fun Learning
- Designing Everyday Spaces for Children
- Designing Hybrid Outdoor Play and Learning Spaces for All Ages
- Eduspeak And Play: Surviving the Wolf at The Door While Keeping Play Alive & Well in Your Classroom
- Equity and Play: Surviving and Thriving
- Future of Play: Technology Integration
- Healthy Communities, Parks and Splashpads
- Hobby Horses—A Hobby, Sport or Pure Play? Feminine Debates on A Contemporary Plaything
- Inclusive Playground Design: A Case Study of Three New England Playgrounds
- Intergenerational Play Within the Workplace: A Powerful Mechanism for Informal Learning
- Legacy of Laughter; A Grandparent Playbook
- Let’s Start With Play. Why Play in The Emergency Department Can Be Our Best Tool for Patients
- Making Connections: People, Places, And Physical Activity
- More to Say After Outdoor Play: Bookmaking and Storytelling with Children
- No, They’re Not Too Old to Play. Bringing Loose Parts Play to South Florida Middle Schoolers.
- Nonprofit, Let’s Play America, Hangs on During the Pandemic with Virtual Play Days & Handbooks
- Paddle, Pivot, Pedal, Prance and Most of All…PLAY!
- Parent LAB PLAY DAY Series
- Parents’ Perceptions of Play Throughout the Pandemic and In the Social Justice Movement
- Performative Play for The Project Based Learning Classroom
- Play and Expressive Therapy Interventions for Enhancing Emotion Regulation
- Play as Culturally Sustainable Family Engagement
- Play Behavior of Children from an Isolated Area in Brazil: Body and Space as Cultural Expression
- Play Frisco 2.0
- Play Like Our World Depends on It: Using Playfulness to Engage Others in The Climate Emergency
- Play on The Go: Tips for Developing and Using Prop Boxes
- Play Programming During the Pandemic…. What Can We Learn?
- Play, Politics, & Policy: Building a State-Wide Movement for Recess
- Playground Design for School Communities – Moving Towards a Better Way
- Playing in a Pandemic: Lessons from Virtual and Traditional Instruction in Early Elementary School
- Pretend Play as a Tool for Development During Virtual Learning of Young Children
- Prototyping: Play Applied
- Ready Player One: Harnessing the Power of Activity and Fun Using A Digital Medium
- Recess and Play Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Reconsidering Solitary Play: Understanding Self, Place, and Nature
- Reducing the Negative Impacts of Trauma Through Outdoor Play
- Removing Invisible Barriers: A Design Call to Action from Families of Those with Differing Abilities
- Sacred Play: An Ancient Contribution to Contemporary Play Theory
- Shifting Play from Survival to Thrivival
- Social Togetherness in a Time of Social Distancing
- Soulful Play
- Sustainability of Self
- Teaching Off Trail
- The Benefits and Uses of Collaborative Competition in the Classroom
- The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Young Children’s Play
- The Effects of a Multi Recess Intervention on Body Composition in Elementary School Children
- The Importance of Failure in Play
- The Push Play Project
- The Rubber Shark Principle: How Play Is Bridging Our Relationship with Disability Inclusion
- The Value of Adult Play Is All in the Design
- Those Summer Days: Exploring Extreme Heat’s Impact on Children’s Outdoor Play and Physical Activity
- Toy Activism Through Teddybears: Promoting Playful Resilience and Ludounity In Pandemic Times
- Ways to Play the Virtual Way
- Wordplay: How Silly Jokes, Nonsense Rhymes, and Secret Languages Thrive in Unstructured Play
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The Conference on the VALUE of Play
The Play Conference, as it is commonly known, is an annual educational conference presented by the US Play Coalition. The latest research and practices in the field of play are presented at the conference, which brings together play researchers, park and recreation professionals, educators, health scientists, architects, landscape architects, designers, planners, business and community leaders, psychologists, physicians and parents from across the U.S. and beyond. The 2021 Virtual Conference on the Value of Play: PLAY IS SURVIVAL includes keynote and featured speakers, round tables on critical issues and trends, research symposium for academics, educational sessions for practitioners, action and research grant opportunities, PLAYtalks and PLAYinstitutes, networking, EPIC play breaks and more.