2024 Open Workshops
October 25th, 2024- Langley, BC
Willoughby Elementary School-20766 80 Ave, Langley
Registration Fee $125
Presenter - Robyn Young
What Is Play Is The Way ?
- The "Play Is The Way" program is a transformative educational approach that is seamlessly embedded in day to day instruction. It is not an add on program that teachers dread.
- This program delves into trauma-informed practices and social-emotional learning, seamlessly integrating these principles into day-to-day teaching rather than treating them as separate add-on programs. By doing so, it creates an inclusive environment that supports all students, including those with special education needs.
- One of the key aspects of this program is its focus on the neuroscience behind emotions. It recognizes the importance of understanding how the brain processes and responds to emotions and provides educators with valuable insights and strategies to effectively support their students. Furthermore, the program emphasizes the significance of mindfulness and breathing techniques, teaching students’ practical ways to regulate their emotions and manage stress.
- Assessment For Learning practices are also a crucial component of "The Play Is The Way" program. It encourages teachers to assess students' progress based on their ability to apply the skills they learn in real-life situations, rather than solely relying on traditional academic assessments. This approach ensures a holistic evaluation of students' growth and development.
- At the heart of the program is the belief that play serves as a catalyst for teaching children to soothe themselves and cope with stressors. By incorporating playful elements into the learning process, students develop essential life skills such as problem-solving, empathy, and self-control. This, in turn, leads to significant improvements in behavior, enabling teachers to avoid feelings of disrespect and frustration.
- A stronger understanding of our own personal well-being as teachers, parents and role models who must be able to find our own inner strength so that we can be the best we can be for our student’s, and the families and communities in which we impact. Not to mention our own children, our own families and friends in which we interact with outside of teaching.
In Summary
PITW addresses trauma, social-emotional learning, inclusive practices, and special education adaptations. It harnesses the power of play, along with neuroscience-backed strategies, mindfulness techniques, and effective assessment practices. By embracing this program, educators can create a nurturing and engaging learning environment that supports the holistic growth and well-being of their students.
Guide children
By Wisdom Not By Force
(Consilio Non Impetu)
By Wisdom Not By Force
(Consilio Non Impetu)
Clarinda Primary School well-being video
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Suitable for 4-14 year old students
PLAY IS THE WAY® is as much a process as it is a program. Specifically, it’s a program of cooperative, physically interactive games that serve as the back bone for a process that builds a sustainable whole school culture of:
PLAY IS THE WAY® is a common sense way of interacting with children that educators can use with confidence. It imparts a philosophy and language that children easily understand and eagerly embrace |
It makes sense that children are far more likely to thrive in socially and emotionally literate school communities. PLAY IS THE WAY® is a behavior education (not a management) program and process in which the entire school community (all adults and every child) can participate, grow and enjoy.
It is not a pencil and paper program with a finite set of lesson plans but a way of learning by doing – an experiential process that becomes a way of school life. It is a part of everyday core business – an ever present, positive influence that supports both students and educators as they work through the many and varied experiences of school striving to achieve ever higher educational standards with comparative levels of emotional and physical health and wellbeing.
Achieving both is not an easy task and it’s invariably harder if educators are not working in partnership with each other, students, parents and carers.
PLAY IS THE WAY® gives all parties a common language with key concepts and understandings around which to build communal responsibility for the desired outcomes of the stake holders.
School is working well when children can learn, play and be themselves in an environment free from threat, intimidation, fear or coercion.
PLAY IS THE WAY® helps build that environment and culture and sustains it for each and every year of a child’s life in school – a life which, if shaped well early, has every likelihood of flourishing as it transitions into adolescence and adulthood.
It is not a pencil and paper program with a finite set of lesson plans but a way of learning by doing – an experiential process that becomes a way of school life. It is a part of everyday core business – an ever present, positive influence that supports both students and educators as they work through the many and varied experiences of school striving to achieve ever higher educational standards with comparative levels of emotional and physical health and wellbeing.
Achieving both is not an easy task and it’s invariably harder if educators are not working in partnership with each other, students, parents and carers.
PLAY IS THE WAY® gives all parties a common language with key concepts and understandings around which to build communal responsibility for the desired outcomes of the stake holders.
School is working well when children can learn, play and be themselves in an environment free from threat, intimidation, fear or coercion.
PLAY IS THE WAY® helps build that environment and culture and sustains it for each and every year of a child’s life in school – a life which, if shaped well early, has every likelihood of flourishing as it transitions into adolescence and adulthood.
