Green Schoolyard Lecture Series #3 - Risky Schoolyard Play for Exploration, Learning, and Growth

Описание: GREEN SCHOOLYARD LECTURE SERIES
Lecture 3 — November 6th, 2025

The Green Schoolyard Lecture Series, hosted by Green Schoolyards America, provides technical, design-focused guidance for creating and stewarding high-quality green schoolyards and schoolyard forests. Sessions feature presentations by subject-area experts including Green Schoolyards America staff, along with time for audience Q&A. All webinars are free and recorded.

Dr. Mariana Brussoni, founder and head of the Outside Play Lab, has published award-winning research that investigates how to ensure children have the time, space and freedom to play outside every day. In this session, she discussed why beneficial risk and play is critical to children’s wellbeing, as well as how to increase opportunities for “risky” play in the context of a green schoolyard.

GUEST SPEAKERS
Dr. Mariana Brussoni, Founder, Outside Play Lab

MEETING HOSTS
Lauren McKenna, MLA, Senior Program Manager, Green Schoolyards America
Sharon Gamson Danks, Founder and CEO, Green Schoolyards America

WEBINAR TIMING
0:00 Welcome, introduction, and updates by Lauren McKenna
0:54 Speaker introduction
1:57 Presentation by Dr. Mariana Brussoni
35:16 Q&A
52:55 Closing by Lauren McKenna

RESOURCES

National Schoolyard Forest
System℠: https://www.greenschoolyards.org/scho...
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National Outdoor Learning Library: http://greenschoolyards.org/
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National Schoolyard Forest System® Library: greenschoolyards.org/forest-resource-library
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Schoolyard Forest Design Lecture Series: greenschoolyards.org/schoolyard-forest-design-lecture-series
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Community of Practice for Schoolyard Forests: https://www.greenschoolyards.org/fore...
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Green Schoolyard Lecture Series: https://www.greenschoolyards.org/gree...
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Visit our events page for all our ongoing online series, plus recordings of past sessions: www.greenschoolyards.org/events

Resources from guest speakers:

More links from speakers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18...

Outside Play Lab: https://outsideplay.org

International School Ground Alliance (ISGA) “Risk in Play & Learning Declaration”: https://www.internationalschoolground...

Healthy childhood development through outdoor risky play: Navigating the balance with injury prevention: https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/...

2025 Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play: https://www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/aop10/

The Outdoor Play Book: https://outdoorplaybook.ca/

RISK-BENEFIT ASSESSMENT FOR OUTDOOR PLAY: A CANADIAN TOOLKIT: https://www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/wp-c...

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GREENING SCHOOL GROUNDS AND CREATING LIVING SCHOOLYARDS, PLEASE SEE:

Green Schoolyards America
https://www.greenschoolyards.org/

Green Schoolyards America collaborates with school districts and public agencies to create Living Schoolyard Initiatives that transform asphalt-covered school grounds into park-like green spaces that improve children’s well-being, learning, and play while contributing to the ecological health and resilience of our cities. We are working to change the norm for school ground design, use, and management so that all children will have access to the natural world in the places they already visit on a daily basis.

Our programs support the living school ground movement, build relationships that help it succeed, and work to embed this perspective in our existing institutions and policy and regulatory frameworks.