IPA USA 2024 RIGHT2PLAY, RIGHT NOW: Full Schedule

Welcome to the IPA USA 2024 Conference, The Right to Play, RIGHT NOW! To ensure ease in registration, here are a few tricks.

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If you want to attend the Pre-Conference, please follow the link below to register.

PreConference Session – Wednesday, September 25 – 9:30-2:30 pm
Connecting Children with Nature: A Practical Workshop for Educators
Follow this link to register for the preconference——https://events.humanitix.com/connecting-children-workshop

Looking forward to seeing you in Greenville, SC

Deb, President, IPA USA

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9:30am EDT

Seeing the Science and Engineering in Children's Play

Thursday September 26, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am EDT

Children's Museum Rm Be Anything Place -- LOWER LEVEL

This interactive session will focus on recognizing the rich and diverse ways young children naturally engage in science and engineering through their play. We will explore case scenarios illustrating students' scientific thinking and problem-solving in different types of play. We will especially focus on noticing and building on children's natural engagements during free-play. This session will equip you with practical tools and strategies to track and support children's natural curiosity in science and engineering during play as well as advocate for play-based science.

Presenters

Rachel Larimore

Samara Early Learning

Dr. Rachel A. Larimore is an educator, speaker, consultant, author, and former nature-based preschool director. As the founder and Chief Visionary of Samara Early Learning her work focuses on helping early childhood educators start nature-based schools or add nature-based approaches... Read More →

Thursday September 26, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am EDT
Children's Museum Rm Be Anything Place -- LOWER LEVEL

Session

10:45am EDT

The Neuroscience of Play: How Loose Parts Builds Big Brains

Thursday September 26, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am EDT

Children's Museum Rm Be Anything Place -- LOWER LEVEL

This interactive workshop will offer a hands-on loose parts learning lab to connect brain science research with playful learning. Participants will engage with open-ended loose parts and discover how such materials can be used to support the neurobiological basis of language, memory, executive functioning, regulation, frustration tolerance, agency, cooperation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Discussion of stress responses and ways to bring back balance to children’s and adolescents’ emotional and cognitive states through playful learning will also be explored through neuroscience. ng this interactive workshop participants will enter the brain and follow

Presenters

Jessica M. Black

Associate Profesor, Boston College

Jessica M. Black, MA, PhD, is Associate Professor, Chair of Children, Youth and Families Field of Practice and directs the Cell to Society Lab in the Boston College School of Social Work. She is an educational neuroscientist whose research centers on ways in which child and adolescent... Read More →

Thursday September 26, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am EDT
Children's Museum Rm Be Anything Place -- LOWER LEVEL

Session

1:15pm EDT

Recess Today & Silent Lunch: Recognizing Shadow Discipline

Thursday September 26, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT

Children's Museum Rm Be Anything Place -- LOWER LEVEL

Lunch and recess are generally the only two opportunities in the school day for students to play, interact, and make choices. Yet, in this face-paced and rigorous testing culture, these two areas are often counted as classroom currency. Shadow discipline, otherwise known as soft-exclusionary practices, is prevalent in many schools and may be seen as inevitable. This session will raise awareness for these punitive practices as well as suggesting pathways to advocate for the rights of children in your communities.

Presenters

Charlene Woodham Brickman

Thursday September 26, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
Children's Museum Rm Be Anything Place -- LOWER LEVEL

Session

3:45pm EDT

Designing Outdoor Playspaces with Children: Processes and Lessons

Thursday September 26, 2024 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT

Children's Museum Rm Be Anything Place -- LOWER LEVEL

This workshop will outline a comprehensive co-design process undertaken with public elementary school students in upstate NY to engage them in the assessment of their current outdoor playspace and in the design development for a slated renovation. The suite of activities utilized during the co-design program will be shared, with an opportunity to have some hands-on experience with select activities. Strategies used to understand children’s priority play experience and elements will be highlighted, along with key learnings from children’s priorities and designs, and value of a co-design process. A copy of the Co-Design Guide will be made available.

Presenters

Janet Loebach

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Dr. Janet Loebach is the Evalyn Edwards Milman Assistant Professor for Child Development in Human Centered Design at Cornell University. Dr. Loebach's research efforts focus on the development of inclusive, child & youth-friendly environments and examining the impacts of built and... Read More →

Thursday September 26, 2024 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
Children's Museum Rm Be Anything Place -- LOWER LEVEL

Session

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