29/01/2026
Play lives at the heart of childhood. Through play, children discover the world, express their inner lives, and do the essential work of growing, learning, and becoming who they are meant to be.
Read more about the research findings and how play-based learning offers a more sustainable and impactful approach to education.
💡Play based learning is fun and all, but there's no way it improves standardized test scores, right? Think again! ✨
Education Week published results from a 3-year pilot study out of Connecticut. After switching one public school Kindergarten back to play based learning, elementary school students "outperformed state averages in English/language arts by 10.5 percentage points—74.4% compared with 63.9%. The following year, the school’s SPI score in ELA rose to 77.5%, the highest in both the district and the state."
Read the Article: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/play-based-learning-yields-more-joy-higher-scores-at-this-elementary-school/2025/12