Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: What Happened to "Go Play"?; Play-Focused Learning; What Happened to "Go Play"?; Why the Rush?; Is Rushing Worthwhile?; Where Are We Rushing To?; Chapter 2: Defining an (Un)Curriculum; What an (Un)Curriculum Is Not; Characteristics of an (Un)Curriculum; Push the Curriculum Back Up; Chapter 3: Supporting an (Un)Curriculum; Trust Your Employees; Focus on Art; Truly Value Play; Encourage Activist Caregivers; Overcome Fear; Seek Out Simplicity; Value Vacation Mind-Sets; Chapter 4: Creating Engaging Spaces; Happy BRAINS; Engaged SENSES
Safe DANGERAbundant TIME; Unbridled CHITCHAT; Predictable CHANGE; Thoughtful STIMULATION; Appropriate CHALLENGE; Real WORK; Perpetual MOTION; Chapter 5: Trusting Kids to Learn; Emotional Environments; Trusting Children; Chapter 6: (Un)Planning; Throw Away Your Lesson Plan Book; Be an Early Learning Experience Architect; Practice the Principles of (Un)Planning; Chapter 7: Taking Baby Steps; Denita's Story; Experiment and Shake Things Up; Chapter 8: Tests, Evaluations, and Assessments ... Oh My!; Don't Feed the Beast; Assess and Evaluate This
Trust Children's Self-Assessment and Self-EvaluationDocument; Do Something with Documentation; References; Suggested Reading; Suggested Websites and Blogs
Summary
The best learning is done when children are allowed freedom to play
