What is Play Is the Way® ?
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A stronger understanding of mental Health and how to support and guide students through the ups and downs of their personal mental health journey.
A stronger understanding of mood, behaviour and anxiety disorders so that we can guide our students to a place where they can self-regulate and soothe themselves through all internal and external conflicts.
A stronger understanding of the core competencies and how important they are to the development of emotional intelligence and individual personal growth.
A stronger understanding of how incredibly important soothing strategies (breathing and muscle relaxation techniques) are to social emotional balance (regulation). Kids who can soothe themselves have an exponentially better chance at dealing with internal and external conflict.
A stronger understanding of the Truth and Reconciliation calls to action and how important it is to make indigenous education a deep-rooted part in what we do every day in our classrooms.
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.
2023 & 2024 Open Workshops
Langley, BC - October 20th, 2023 - Pro-D Day
Location: Donna Gabriel Robins Elementary School
7844 204B St., Langley Twp, BC V2Y 3N9
Registration - $ 125 Per Person
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All workshops have a strong connection to Aboriginal Education. Each workshop has a focus on traditional stories and Truth and Reconciliation. In British Columbia this workshop fully meets the requirement for the ministerial order around Indigenous Professional Development.
If you have any further questions please email:
playistheway@outlook.com or call # 604-366- play (7529)
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.
