Author: Margi Bhansali

Margi Bhansali is a 2021-2022 Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Senior Policy Fellow. She teaches pre-kindergarten at Beard Elementary in Chicago. She has been a mentor teacher for her network’s Preschool-2nd grade balanced literacy initiative and has led city-wide professional development during the annual “Ready, Set, Teach” summer conference. She is a National Board Certified Teacher. She graduated from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with her BA in Early Childhood Education and received her MA in Reading from Webster University. She has an English as a Second Language Endorsement from Roosevelt University.

Children Learn Through Play. Early Childhood Educators Need to Know How to Use Play in the Classroom

Margi Bhansali on April 6, 2022

Children still need to engage in play because they are still using symbols to represent words, images, and ideas and their ability for abstract concepts isn’t yet developed. Play is where they put all of their learning together in ways their brains can understand.

Want Chicago’s Kids Back In-Person this Fall? We Must Talk to Families This Summer

Margi Bhansali on July 9, 2021

CPS and individual schools must keep talking with families through the summer. Community visits and school-based meetings could reduce fears.

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