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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi all, This conference looks like it could be a really great opportunity to learn and share, especially for those of you serving 0-18!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best, Greta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Happy New Year, everyone!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To all my librarian, teacher, maker, game designer, researcher, and museum worker colleagues... I'm so excited to share that the
<b><a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/d613ed8e-1801-4709-b7dc-17dd69c72e6e/websitePage:fd00ee5e-f337-450e-a6ac-1c668e50caf2" title="Original URL: https://web.cvent.com/event/d613ed8e-1801-4709-b7dc-17dd69c72e6e/websitePage:fd00ee5e-f337-450e-a6ac-1c668e50caf2. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Call
for Proposals</a> </b>for the <b><a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/d613ed8e-1801-4709-b7dc-17dd69c72e6e/summary" title="Original URL: https://web.cvent.com/event/d613ed8e-1801-4709-b7dc-17dd69c72e6e/summary. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Play Make
Learn 2025 Conference</a></b> is <b><i>now OPEN</i></b>! Please help me share this information far & wide with your networks; if you've not yet been to Play Make Learn, be sure to save the date (August 21st & 22nd, 2025) — and consider submitting a proposal
yourself. More information about the conference & the Call for Proposals is included below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/d613ed8e-1801-4709-b7dc-17dd69c72e6e/summary" title="Original URL: https://web.cvent.com/event/d613ed8e-1801-4709-b7dc-17dd69c72e6e/summary. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Play
Make Learn Annual Conference</a></span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">August 21st & 22nd, 2025<br>
Memorial Union | 800 Langdon St. | Madison, WI</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The Play Make Learn Conference is a place for collaboration and discovery in the design, research and practice of playful learning, games for learning and positive social impact, making and makerspaces, STEAM education, and arts in education. PML creates an
inspirational space for preK-12 educators, designers, developers, innovators, librarians, museum professionals, makers, and researchers to tinker together, share knowledge, and celebrate one another’s work.
<b>For the first time ever</b>, Play Make Learn will have a conference theme to bring together the work of all of the communities that come together for the conference. The 2025 Play Make Learn Conference theme is: <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Innovations in educational design and play-based learning often emerge from moments of critical reflection, experimentation, and creative risk-taking. By embracing the processes of breaking and mending, we can foster enhanced inclusivity, deeper relevance in
teaching and learning practices, and greater belonging in educational spaces. This year’s conference theme invites educators, researchers, scholars, librarians, and practitioners to critically examine the acts of breaking and mending as pathways to systemic
transformation, resilience, and creative growth. Whether through playful experimentation, critical deconstruction, or thoughtful rebuilding, we explore how “messiness” can lead to meaningful change and stronger, more human-centered learning environments. Possible
Focus Areas for Submissions include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><u>Critical Breaking</u></b>: Exploring how deconstruction of traditional educational systems can disrupt inequities and create more inclusive spaces; investigating maker education as systems thinking: breaking down to understand and transform; examining
how games in education challenge systemic power structures, & restructuring educational practices to be student-led.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><u>Playful Breaking:</u></b><b> </b>Leveraging arts integration as a tool for belonging through messiness and experimentation; designing for “productive failure” to foster resilience and creativity in learners; creating “maker” spaces that encourage learners
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<b><u>Rebuilding Through Reflection</u></b>: Using the metaphor of <i>Kintsugi</i> (the "art of beautiful repair") to explore how educational practices can emerge stronger after breaking; reflecting on the disassembled components of a classroom to build more
equitable, inclusive learning environments; developing frameworks for rebuilding educational spaces to support deeper learning and human connection.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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This theme invites participants to embrace the messy, complex, and transformative journey of breaking and mending for better learning futures.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">While not all sessions will speak directly to the theme, you are encouraged to use it as inspiration while developing your proposals. Proposals which address the theme will receive special consideration during
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">_________________________________________________________</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">You are invited to submit a proposal to present at the 2025 Play Make Learn Conference (PML). PML aspires to foster a learning community that has a diversity of perspectives and practices. Are you a first-time
presenter, young person, or practitioner considering submitting for Play Make Learn, and need additional support? Reach out to our planning team at:
<b><a href="mailto:conferences@education.wisc.edu" title="mailto:conferences@education.wisc.edu">conferences@education.wisc.edu</a>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">DEADLINE for Submissions: </span>
</b><i><span style="color:black">March 7, 2025 at 11:59PM Central</span></i><span style="color:black"><br>
<b>Notifications Sent: </b><i>April 2025</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><a href="http://go.wisc.edu/PMLsubmit" title="Original URL: http://go.wisc.edu/PMLsubmit. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Submit your proposal here!</a></b><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b>Session "Strands": </b>Submissions are encouraged in and across the following themes, but new ideas are also welcome and encouraged.
<i>You will be asked to select all themes that apply to your work</i>:<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Playful learning<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Games for learning and positive social impact<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Making and makerspaces<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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STEAM education<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Arts in education<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b>Session Format: </b>You will be asked to select the session format. Please note time and maximum presenters for each type.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b>Hands-on Workshops (</b><i>75 minutes, 1-6 presenters</i><b>): </b>Workshops should actively engage participants, showcasing your work, or methods you use inside or outside the classroom. They may include physical making, playing a game or something else.
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met outside to explore? What if participants worked collaboratively over the conference to produce a play? Be as creative as you dare for these sessions. If you have questions about an idea before submitting, send an email to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you for helping me spread the word. If you have any high-level questions about Play Make Learn 2025, please feel free to reach out and I'll help if I can. Alternatively, you can contact
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