Materials Matter: An Essential Resource

Are you ready to embrace more process-focused creative experiences, see children as capable and full of good ideas, and learn how materials are the path to bringing creativity, innovation, and joy into your classroom? Then it’s time to enroll in Materials Matter!

Before classrooms can become hubs of creativity and agency, we educators must first become comfortable with what materials can do and become. As we take a deep dive each month into new materials, you will grow more confident with our guiding principle: art is play, and play is learning. Join us and become a confident cultivator of creativity!

This is our signature, 12-module, self-paced course exploring foundational art & play materials for classrooms, studios, childcare centers, and pre-service programs. The course includes:

  • 12 Playbooks (25 pages each)

  • Weekly open-ended invitations

  • Guidance on storing and displaying materials

  • Mindset work on letting go of expectations

  • Planning the environment to cultivate flow

  • Inspiring photos from real classrooms

  • Product links

  • Book Lists

  • Real stories from educators using the materials

  • 12 in-depth video workshops

  • Reflection questions and PD certificates

  • 30-minute Makerspace Makeover video

  • Adaptations for Toddlers and At-Home use

Materials Matter Course
$264.00
One time
$66.00
For 4 months

✓ Unlimited lifetime access
✓ Over 20 hours of video content
✓ Up to 24 hrs of PD with certificates
✓ Reflection Journal
✓ 30-minute Makerspace Makeover video
  • This course is a must for any educator (especially pre-service teachers), so that they can already be set up for success rather than learning the traditional worksheet model that we see in a lot of schools right now, and then having to learn a new way to teach down the line. Creativity, choice, and freedom is something that all children deserve 💛

    Rachel S., ECE, Materials Matter course member

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