Partners

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Alliance for Childhood

The Alliance for Childhood promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living. The Alliance’s public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the vulnerability of childhood. It acts for the sake of the children themselves and for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future. At present the Alliance is working to restore play to all children, both in school and out-of-school.
http://www.allianceforchildhood.org/  

Association of Children’s Museums

Children’s museums are places where children learn through play and exploration in environments designed just for them. The Association of Children’s Museums provides leadership, professional development and resources for its member organizations and individuals.
http://www.childrensmuseums.org  

Children’s Environments Research Group (CERG)

The Children’s Environments Research Group (CERG), links university scholarship with the development of policies, environments and programs to fulfill children’s’ rights and improve the quality of their lives. CERG is a branch of the Center for Human Environments and collaborates closely with the other branches of this research center. Most of its members are drawn from the Ph.D. Programs in Environmental, Developmental and Social Psychology and Geography.
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/che/cerg/index.htm  

Head Start Body Start

Head Start Body Start National Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play (HSBS) is a collaboration between the American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation (AAPAR) and the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and is funded by a grant from the Administration for Children and Families. Head Start Body Start aims to increase physical activity, outdoor play, and healthy eating among Head Start and Early Head Start children, families, and staff. It helps Head Start and Early Head Start Centers to create healthy learning environments and promote physical activity that leads to the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development of young children and reduces obesity and its associated costs.
http://www.aahperd.org/headstartbodystart/  

New York Coalition for Play

The New York Coalition for Play is a partnership of organizations and individuals committed to improving opportunities for freely chosen, unstructured, and child-directed play in the New York metropolitan area. NYCPlay works to preserve and enhance the birthright of all children to have time and space for play through the activities of its partners and programs.
http://nycplay.org/  

New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation is the steward of about 29,000 acres of land — 14 percent of New York City — including more than 5,000 individual properties ranging from Coney Island Beach and Central Park to community gardens and Greenstreets. It operates more than 800 athletic fields and nearly 1,000 playgrounds, 550 tennis courts, 66 public pools, 48 recreational facilities, 17 nature centers, 13 golf courses, and 14 miles of beaches. It cares for 1,200 monuments and 23 historic house museums; look after 600,000 street trees, and two million more in parks; are New York City’s principal providers of recreational and athletic facilities and programs; and are home to free concerts, world-class sports events, and cultural festivals.
www.nyc.gov/parks  

Play Direct UK.com

Play Direct UK.com offers outdoor learning and school grounds equipment to make playtime more active, challenging and above all fun. Its unique range of play, sports and fitness equipment creates outdoor learning environments that encourage children’s natural curiosity for social and imaginative development. Products include popular items such as: adventure trails, playhouses, a fantastic musical range, sand, sports and fitness equipment, outdoor classrooms, seating, shelters and much more. Play Direct UK.com always remembers that it is the child who will be using the playground equipment, and puts them first when exploring new innovative play and learning ideas.
http://www.playdirectuk.com/  

Videatives

Videatives implements its mission to make children’s thinking visible through the use of text with supporting short video clips that can be downloaded or streamed from the internet. This format (text plus video) has great potential to map theory to practice and to generate theory from practice. It is the organization’s belief that good teaching results from helping children explicate their current theories rather than from directly teaching children a new theory. As our knowledge of children’s intelligence grows, so does our ability to support the children’s reflections on their thinking, their understandings and misconceptions about how the social and physical world around them works. Videatives’ titles capture ordinary moments of play to reveal what children (0 – 5 years) know and how teachers can build from what children naturally do.
http://www.videatives.com