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Who We Are Mission Staff Research CRECE Profiles Publications Bibliography Posters NewsEvents Toggle website search Menu Close Who We Are Mission Staff Research CRECE Profiles Publications Bibliography Posters NewsEvents Toggle website search Home 4K COVID Report CRECE Report and Executive Summary: COVID-19 and 4-Year-Old Kindergarten (4K): Summary Report on Dane County School District Impacts and Responses Read the Reports pylebanner CRECE Profiles Project: Learning from Outstanding Early Childhood Educators View Profiles banner CRECE's Mission kid with blocks $1.2M Grant Awarded to Examine Decline of Early Care and Education Providers Read More awardBanner $1M Awarded to One City Schools and UW-Madison CRECEWEC Research Team Read More Research Enhancing the Quality of Instruction in Four-Year-Old Kindergarten Funded by a grant from the Institute for Education Sciences to the Madison Education Partnership (MEP) in collaboration with CRECE, this study focuses on reducing inequities in school success. Learn more about CRECE’s research NewsEvents Now Accepting Applications for the 2023-24 CRECE Undergraduate or Masters’ Research Internships. Applications are due by August 15, 2023. 4K During a Pandemic: Stories from Dane County Webinar – Watch the video from the event on April 12, 2022. The Paradox of Autonomy: Pretend Play in Segregated Preschools Talk with Casey Stockstill Thursday, October 28, 2021 1:30p-2:30p CRECE Profiles Project: Learning from Outstanding Early Childhood Educators DREME’s At-Home Early Math Learning Kit: A COVID-19 Resource for Families Re-Imagining Play the Anji Way Why would a researcher travel half-way around the world to watch kids play? CRECE Director, Beth Graue, had a very good reason for flying 20 hours to Anji, a county situated in a northwestern province of China. Along with CRECE Advisory Board member and One City Schools’ Director Kaleem Caire, Graue attended the first True Play conference to observe the power of Anji Play — a bold approach to early childhood education that interweaves activities and environmental features based on five principles: Love, Risk, Engagement, Joy, and Reflection. It was remarkable to see first-hand the ways that Anji Play equips and allows children to explore their world — through play, said Graue. In Anji Play, children have two hour long play periods – outside when weather permits. Those two hours are brim-full of activity. Children use ladders(!) and build high structures. They take risks climbing and balancing. They engage freely in water play. They use hoses to make streams and deep muddy valleys. Rain suits and boots are on hand to keep them dry. Countless numbers of blocks are available for them to build towers and more. But if you spend time watching, you quickly discover that much more than play is going on. A great deal of learning is happening.” More about re-imagining play CRECE is housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) at the School of Education , University of Wisconsin-Madison. Feedback, questions or accessibility issues? Contact Us! Contact Us Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECE) Wisconsin Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin-Madison 1025 West Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706 608-263-4748 crece@wcer.wisc.edu Updates Subscribe Unsubscribe Who We Are Mission Staff Copyright 2024 - The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System COOKIE NOTICE. We use cookies on this site to enhance your experience and improve our marketing efforts. By continuing to browse without changingwhile you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on . Necessary Necessary Always Enabled Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information. Non-necessary Non-necessary Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website....