Heart Centered Teaching Institute 2023
April 15, 2023 - The 6th Annual Heart Centered Teaching Institute at the Kentucky Center For African American Heritage
Grow your creativity and your capacity to freely explore, design, reflect, and innovate with a full day of hands-on professional development with keynote speaker, Miriam Beloglovsky.
"Play is vitally important for children and adults. Play is a state of mind and attitude that leads to wonder and discovery. When we play, we enter into a state of flow, a highly focused state of consciousness that promotes creativity and innovation."
Miriam Beloglovsky
Miriam Beloglovsky is a professor of early childhood education at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California, sought after public speaker, coach and the co-author of the award winning Loose Parts Inspiring Play book series, which have created an international phenomenon and have been translated into different languages.
As a public speaker, Miriam engages, inspires, and motivates audiences throughout the world to explore the power of play. She embraces play as a vehicle that transforms people’s lives.
Miriam is a play advocate and founder and CEO of Playful Transformation, a company dedicated to advocating for the right to play and finding joy in life. Miriam’s mission is to weave together play, collaboration, public policy, education, critical reflection, inquiry, creativity, and innovation to enhance play opportunities for young children and educators—all with the belief that play is central to human transformation, to building community, and to enhance education, which can lead to authentic equity and more civil society.