Play-based PD you can binge in your pajamas.
Trainings, planners, and printables for early childhood teachers who are done with worksheets and ready for real play. Watch tonight. Try it Monday.
On-demand trainings.
Pre-recorded trainings you can binge anytime. Most come with a PD certificate and a few surprise bonuses.
Criss-Cross Applesauce Is Canceled: 52 Read Alouds for Kids Who Can't Sit Still (So, All of Them)
52 of Kristen's favorite read alouds for wiggly bodies, chatty mouths, and busy hands, plus how to read each one so kids can move, chime in, and act it out. Includes The Book Drop with 110 read alouds and a 2-hour PD certificate. $47, or $141 for your whole center.
The Renegade Play Vault
Tools and tales for the trailblazing early childhood educator! A kitchen sink collection of 5 summits worth of presentations from early childhood educators around the globe as well as 30 tours of early childhood programs from around the globe! 117 trainings, tours and interviews total.
This is NOT a Behavior Chart Workshop
Behaviors are getting harder and sticker charts are a band-aid. Kristen and Churmell Mitchell hand you 50 connection-based strategies (plus the Connection Guide with 50 more) so you can fill your kiddos up before the behaviors show up. Full replay, PD certificate, lifetime access. $47, or $141 for your whole center.
Free the Glue Party
This 2-hour pre-recorded training shares all of Kristen's tips and tricks to free the glue. Everything you need to know to let kids learn how much glue is too much glue! Along with the training, you get an eBook and a PD certificate for 2 hours.
The Great Breakup
Kristen and Samuel put together this digital, pre-recorded training series to help early childhood educators rethink traditional practices and settle in to a more child-led, play based learning environment! Let's break up with calendar time, themes, letter of the week, forced sharing and saying NO!
Hummingbird, Not Helicopter
Say yes. Step back. Let them lead. Two of Kristen's most requested trainings: Yes, Yes, Yes (social and emotional support) and The Quarterback's Coach and the Hummingbird (letting children take the lead). Includes a printable reflection guide and PD certificates. $47, or $141 for your whole center.
Uncomfy Play: Play that freaks adults out but lets kids thrive
A 2-hour training on the truly uncomfortable side of childhood play. Weapon play, rough-and-tumble, pretend funerals, smashing and rebuilding, and why all of it actually fuels developmental gold. Includes the Tactical Toolkit and a 2-hour PD certificate. $47, or $141 for your whole center.
Retro Circle Time Training Replay
A circle time your kiddos actually want to join. Kristen walks you through the soft start from the school she founded, her "pick 2-3" method for a developmentally appropriate circle time, and a BUNCH of read alouds, songs, games, and fingerplays. Includes 99 check-in ideas and a 2-hour PD certificate. $47, or $141 for your whole center.
This is NOT a Morning Meeting Workshop
Think about walking into work on a Monday and getting pulled straight into a staff meeting. That's morning meeting. Kristen's daily check-in method gives you real one-on-one time with every kiddo while play stays open. 99 check-ins, a 102-page guide, and a 1-hour PD certificate. $47, or $141 for your whole center.
This is NOT a Letter of the Week Workshop
It's Tuesday. The letter is B. Twenty-two kiddos are gluing bear ears onto paper plates. There's a better way! 99 play-based ways to build alphabet knowledge without pulling a single child out of play. 2-hour on-demand training, PD certificate, lifetime access. $47, or $141 for your whole center.
This is NOT a Craft Workshop
The why, the how, and the permission to finally stop doing crafts and start trusting real creativity. A process art replay plus 52 ready-to-use process art invitations to carry you through an entire year, the companion book, and a PD certificate. $47, or $141 for your whole center.
Digital resources.
Planners, guides, and documentation tools that help you prove play is learning.
The first planner for play-based teachers!
No themes. No scripted activities. No Sunday night panic.
You plan the environment, watch what the children actually do, then document the learning after it happens. Environment pages, observation and data sheets, a standards tracker for all 50 states, parent conference snapshots, 99 morning check-in ideas, 46 read-alouds, nine months of circle time songs, and two on-demand trainings.
Everything you need to prove play is learning... without pretending to be someone you're not.
The Documentation Bundle
Everything you need to start documenting the learning that happens during play. A 1-hour training with a PD certificate, the play detective documentation guide, 55+ pages of language for 75 classroom activities, a language cheat sheet, and a Canva template. All on one easy PDF. $47, or $141 for your whole center.
99 Daily Check-In Ideas
In this guide, you will get all of Kristen's tried and true daily check-ins that she (and the other teachers) used in their preschool classroom every day. Ideas include literacy, math concepts, fine and gross motor skills and Questions of the Day.
The Play Provisions Club
Twelve topics, all at once. Each one comes with a video training (with PD certificate), a letter for at-home caregivers, a newsletter template, a research brief, Canva social posts, and a curated read-aloud book list. Teaching the grown-ups about play just got way easier.
Thank you so much! I am so excited to learn from the best! You are such a big inspiration to us teachers that want to make a change in early education.
Mia · Preschool Teacher
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cheers to play! ☀️
Kristen Day
& Play
Play-based learning keynotes, professional development, and digital courses for early childhood educators. Supporting the field since 2018. Formerly Kristen RB Peterson.
