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April 29, 2026

Some of the Most Important Work in the Room Is Happening on the Floor

There is a moment every early childhood educator knows. A child is deep in play, completely absorbed, doing something that looks, to an untrained eye, like nothing in particular.

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Nicole Santa, Susan Friedman, Raven Keenan
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