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Scroll through image galleries and agendas of past pd² events. We are always looking for places around the Seattle area to host our professional development play dates. If you have ideas or missed a past event you'd like repeated in the future, please contact Janaki, Carolyn, and Kitten at ProDevPlayDates@gmail.com
FALL 2025
Pattern Play Cafe
October 2025
AGENDA
AGENDA
8:45 - 11:45 AM
📸 Welcome + Introductory Activity
🔢 Exploring Patterns
📖 Storytime
🍵 Recess/Break
🖼️ Places, Picture Books, & Patterns
💡 Closing + Reflection
RESOURCES & LINKS
RESOURCES & LINKS
If you attended the session, you received a link in your email to a page with all handouts, links, and resources.
SUMMER 2025
Climate & Community: A Living History
July 2025
In partnership with Kitten Vaa, Fulbright alumna
and her Global Green Sprouts project
AGENDA
AGENDA
8:45 - 11:45 AM
👋 Meet + Greet
📖 Story of Change & Hope, Part 1
🌲 Connecting to Place SEL + STEM
📖 Story of Change & Hope, Part 2
📊 Data Collection & Analysis
👟 Break
🗺️ Museum & Map Analysis
📖 Story of Change & Hope, Part 3
🎨 Multiple Futures - Craft a Story
🎤 Sharing stories
👋 Reflections & Goodbye
SUPPORT
SUPPORT
This pd² event was funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation via the University of Washington's PASTEL project.
Support the Shoreline Historical Museum and Miyawaki Forest! Donate here.
RESOURCES & LINKS
RESOURCES & LINKS
FALL 2024
Issaquah Salmon Hatchery
Salmon Storytelling, October 2024
AGENDA
8:45 AM - 11:45 AM
👋 Meet + Greet
📖 Stories of Salmon
🔢 Counting Salmon
📊 Data About Place
👟 Recess & Snack Break
🌿 Native Plant Exploration
🐟 Math Storytelling
👋 Final Thoughts & Goodbye
Support the hatchery!
We used facilities maintained by the Friends of Issaquah Salmon Hatchery for this event. Donate to help their cause.
CMC South Annual Conference
Sesssion about pd², November 2024
Session Title
Professional Development Play Dates
Place-Based Experiences 🔗PDF of SLIDES
Session Description
Learn about what teachers have been doing around authentic STEM learning related to place. Leave with instructional routines and activity examples designed to expand your students’ access to and conceptions of mathematics and science in the world around them.
SUMMER 2024
Meridian Playground, Seattle
A Day of Play, July 2024
MERIDIAN PLAYGROUND AGENDA
8:45 AM - 3:45 PM
👋 Meet + Greet
🗺️ Mapping Place
🔢 Counting, Part 1
👟 Recess & Snack
🔢 Counting, Part 2
⛪️ History of Place
🥗 Lunch
🎉 Fun Together
🏀 Basketball or Nature Data 🌱
👟 Recess & Snack
🧺 Farmers’ Market Math
👋 Final Thoughts & Goodbye
Liberty Park, Renton
A Day of Play, July/August 2024
LIBERTY PARK AGENDA
8:45 AM - 3:45 PM
👋 Meet + Greet
🗺️ Experiencing Place
👟 Recess & Snack
📊 Data About Place
🌊 Nature Journal: Mapping
🥗 Lunch
📸 Photo Analysis Task
🛝 Playground Data
👟 Recess & Snack
📖 Math & Science in Read Alouds
👋 Final Thoughts & Goodbye
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