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Welcome to the 2024 Texas Children in Nature Network Summit held in Waco, Texas!

After registering for the Summit and making your Wednesday Workshop selection, you will be enrolled in your selected workshop by TCiNN staff. You will see your workshop on your schedule after you have been enrolled.

  • You do not need to select and add your workshop to your schedule.
  • All workshops are "frozen" and only staff can manage enrollment.
  • If you do not see a workshop option on the registration form that is listed on the workshop PDF, that means it is full and no longer available. 

Regular registration ends November 30.

Late registration begins December 1.

Once late registration begins, any cancellations will not be refunded.

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The Power of Outdoor Play
Wednesday December 11, 2024 1:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Workshop Around Waco
Presenters: Dr. Debbie Rhea, Professor, LiiNK Project Director, Texas Christian University
Cheryl Potemkin, Early Childhood Program Manager, Fort Worth Botanic Garden
Location: Dewey Park, 1-4 p.m.
925 N. Ninth Street, Waco, TX 76707
Strands: Physical & Mental Health, Formal & Informal Education

Much is known about the need for play daily in children’s lives. What is less known is how to attract children and adults to the outdoors and create intrigue, curiosity, and an inviting social/emotional climate through different landscapes with different opportunities at schools, parks, and community settings. Presenters will introduce different strategies that have worked with the LiiNK Project (in schools and communities) and Fort Worth Botanic Garden (in schools, community gardens, and teacher support). These include why the outdoors, school recess policies, and procedures, adult role during recess/play, weather guidelines, and equipment/loose parts for different landscapes to create an enticing environment for child and adult play. By the end of the workshop participants will be able to connect with reluctant adults where they are and allow them to change at their pace and they will be able to provide school, park, and community setting strategies that create an enticing recess/play environment for children and adults!

This workshop is for anyone who wants to feel more comfortable helping others who are reluctant to be outdoors, need to understand why the outdoors is so important, and need to be more comfortable being in spaces that produce active, healthy, and resilient children and adults.
Speakers
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Debbie Rhea

Professor, Texas Christian University
Deborah Rhea, Ed.D. is professor of Kinesiology and founding director of The LiiNK Project at Texas Christian University. She is an author, researcher, motivational speaker, educational consultant, and behavior change trainer. LiiNK (Let’s inspire innovation ‘N kids), a recess... Read More →
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Cheryl Potemkin

Early Childhood Program Manager, Fort Worth Botanic Garden
Wednesday December 11, 2024 1:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Workshop Around Waco
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