Preschoolers at Play: Choosing the Right Stuff for Learning and Development

About Lisa Mufson BressonMegan King

Lisa Mufson Bresson MEd is an early childhood education consultant with Beyond Boundaries LLC and coauthor of NAEYCs bestselling book Big Questions for Young Minds: Extending Childrens Thinking. She leads workshops and presentations at local state national and international conferences thriving on the connections she makes with learnersboth big and little!on a daily basis. Since 2008 she has been a contributing author to Teaching Young Children (TYC) NAEYCs magazine for preschool teachers and serves on TYCs advisory board. She is a former program manager for Grow NJ Kids New Jerseys statewide Quality Rating and Improvement System for early childhood programs. Previously Lisa taught in urban public preschool settings for over a decade.   Megan King MEd is a preschool teacher at Passaic Public Schools in Passaic New Jersey. She has worked in the field of early childhood education for over 10 years. She is active in the makerspace movement and has presented on and coauthored several articles on incorporating hands-on maker materials in early childhood classrooms. She has written articles published in TYC and is proud to serve as one of TYCs advisory board members. She works with a diverse group of early childhood educators on the NAEYC/PBS Ready To Learn Content Review Advisory Board and is a past NJ Governors Educator of the Year Award winner at the school level. Megan enjoys working with her preschoolers and experiencing the world through their eyes.