Stephanie Parsons

Stephanie Parsons is an educator and professional development author focused on integrating playful learning with academic instruction in elementary classrooms. She wrote Play Attention!: A Playful Mindset Meets Academic Content, a 2020 professional resource for teachers of grades 3–6 that offers a framework for classroom play and practical strategies to support engagement and learning across content areas.

In Play Attention!, Parsons introduces a repeatable cycle of invite, play, reflect to help teachers design purposeful play experiences connected to curriculum goals, assessment, and social-emotional learning. Her work is featured by Heinemann, where she is listed as an author, and the book is used by classroom practitioners and literacy educators as a research-informed guide to using play to foster creativity, collaboration, and academic growth.