Please join me in congratulating Susan Gerofsky, whose PLAYbook cross-faculty, community-engaged project has won a CST Inspired Learning grant <http://learningproject.cst.org>. The PLAYbook team, consisting of Susan Gerofsky, Kris Fox, a landscape architect, and Mariana Brussoni, an assistant professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine) is an interdisciplinary collaboration of UBC researchers and students working in close partnership with the Vancouver School Board and parents, teachers and kids at schools. Each team member has a passion for creating dynamic outdoor public spaces that promote health and educational experiences for children and improve the social and ecological wellbeing of communities. Their user-friendly, locally-adapted, menu-based PLAYbook of school ground design guidelines will be available in hard copy and online to help parent groups create the best outdoor play and learning environments for public schools in Vancouver and beyond.
Congratulations, Susan!
Best, Peter
Peter Grimmett
Professor and Head, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy