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This is what post NOW Play planning adventures look like with Shelley Stagg Peters Nazila Eisazadeh and Elrica from EarlyLearning&ChildCareYK

Shelley Stagg Peters and Mia, the Aurora College pet, at the Farmer’s Market after a day’s work of NOW Play planning

Touchdown! We’re ready to meet with teachers this morning as part of our NOW Play collaborative action research!

Can’t get enough of these views. Missing the people and the scenery already as we prepare for our trip back to Toronto tomorrow. Shelley Stagg Peters Nazila Eisazadeh Photo cred to Amanda Patterson

A big congratulations to Sheree Fitch and Carolyn Fisher, winner of the David Booth Children’s and Youth Poetry Award! ⁦Nimbus Publishing⁩ ⁦The CCBC⁩ #ccbcbookawards

A big congratulations to David A. Robertson and Julie Flett for winning the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award! #CCBCBookAwards

Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2022 #CCBCBookAwards! Tonight, eight awards in total were given out. bookcentre.ca/news/2022-ccbc…

Interested in the NOW Play community team's mission, vision and values? Watch this video!

Introducing NOW Play university co-applicants, collaborators and consultants:

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Happy to share the results of a wonderful collaboration with Amanda White and Emma Quigan: Young children co-constructing stories with teachers nzcer.org.nz/nzcerpress/ear…

Congratulations to fellow NOW Play researchers, Kristina Belancic, Anne Wuolab and Eva Lindgren on their publication, Creating Sami language spaces in a Sami classroom: dutkansearvi.fi/wp-content/upl…

NOW Play presents an evening with contributors to The Role of Place and Play in Young Children’s Language and Literacy. Join us virtually at 6 pm EST on Tuesday March 7, 2023, as authors share key insights from research. Register here: oise-utoronto.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Check out the latest issue of the Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy: jcrl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/jcrl I'll be handing over the editorial reins to Carol Doyle Jones after this year. All the best to you, Carol, and I'm looking forward to seeing where you take the journal!

Congratulations to fellow NOW Play researchers, Maia, Selena, Melinda and Rebecca, for their recent publication Tiritiria: Understanding Māori children as inherently and inherited-ly literate—Towards a conceptual position! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Happy to share newly-published article by NOW Play partners, Maia, Melinda, Rebecca & Selena: Ko te mana o te tamaiti te aro o tātou mahi: Listening to Voices from Tai Tokerau to Re-frame Literacies Journal New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies doi.org/10.1007/s40841…

We can’t believe it’s been three whole weeks since our NOW Play 2023 Gathering. What an incredible turnout and opportunity to network and learn from one another. Here are some highlights:

Hurrah for Joe and Janice's support of Reading Recovery and Marie Clay's amazing early literacy research! STONES FROM A GLASS HOUSE: THE PARADOXICAL CONDEMNATION OF READING RECOVERY IN THE ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION RIGHT TO READ REPORT Link: jtl.uwindsor.ca/index.php/jtl/…

The CBC’s Meaghan Brackenbury talks about the NOW Play project. Click the link below to listen! cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Happy to celebrate collaborative action research and its potential for helping to address teacher retention issues in theconversation.com/letting-teache…