by Hannah Beach | Mar 10, 2026 | Building Relationship, Community Building, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Inclusion, Play, Professional Development
It’s Week 4 of our Re-Thinking Recess series, and Tory is sharing how they’ve reimagined two big playground dynamics: soccer and loose parts. Instead of letting the game default to highly competitive, adversarial teams, they’ve intentionally structured soccer so...
by Hannah Beach | Sep 6, 2022 | Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Discipline, Emotional Health, Inclusion, Negative Identity
School is back this week and for many kids (and us) this comes with lots of feelings. There may be nerves, hope, dread, happiness, alarm, relief, excitement and more. I watched my youngest son get ready for his first day of high school this week. He chose his...
by Hannah Beach | Oct 28, 2020 | Arts, Caring, Community Building, Emotional Health, Emotional Safety, Empathy, Inclusion
In my last blog, I spoke about the power of anchors as a tool for keeping our students connected to us and to one another. These consistent connection activities help to keep systems from falling apart. And embedding them as rituals gives us a break from having...
by Hannah Beach | Jun 25, 2020 | Arts, Attachment, Building Relationship, Community Building, Connection, Expression, Feelings, Inclusion, Nature, Play
Sid Bobb – Co-Director of Aanmitaagzi, Photo By: Bettina Vollmerhausen This month I wanted to take the time to celebrate and share the heart and mind transformations that my students and I received from working with Aanmitaagzi at Big Medicine Studio on the...
