People Profile: Dina Ottoni-Battistessa

People Profile: Dina Ottoni-Battistessa

What we love most about our work are the people we work with. We’re very proud of our natural play community here at Natural Pod and to celebrate some of the people in our community, we’ve started a short series we’re calling our Natural Play Community People...
The Importance of Conversation

The Importance of Conversation

When I began to introduce more natural materials into my classroom, I was curious about how this change would impact the quality, learning potential, and depth of the play that my students engaged in. I began by replacing existing materials (plastic blocks, toys and...
Learnings from LearningSCAPES 2025

Learnings from LearningSCAPES 2025

We’ve just returned from LearningSCAPES 2025, where conversations focused on a fundamental shift. We are all supporting an “anxious generation” and feeling the tension between humanity and technology. The central question was clear: How do we create...