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Landscape Structures Learning Academy

LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES LEARNING ACADEMY

The exclusive Landscape Structures Learning Academy is a nationally

accredited seminar program offered to park and recreation professionals

and landscape architects. With five Learning Academy sessions from which

to choose, you’ll earn continuing education credits (CEUs) while learning

about timely and critical topics related to the playground industry.

NEW! Landscape Structures Facility Tour

Lean manufacturing practices and kaizen

techniques combined with creative,

empowered employees can drive

significant operational improvements

and ensure product quality. In this

session you’ll learn:

• How manufacturing improvements

have created more environmentally

responsible products

• How empowered employees have

helped increase productivity

and success

• How to implement similar tactics in

your setting

NEW! Playground Safety & Maintenance

Each year on playgrounds nearly 200,000 injuries

occur that require emergency room treatment. Often

the injuries can be minimized or prevented with regular

assessments and maintenance. In this session you’ll

learn to:

• Identify potential hazards on the playground

and how to spot them in the field

• Establish a playground audit and inspection

protocol that becomes part of routine business

• Ensure compliance with national safety standards

Designing Natural Play Environments Play in nature is valuable to healthy child development, so it’s important to create

play spaces that encourage children and families to get outdoors and interact with

their environment. In this session you’ll learn to:

• Identify design considerations and best practice programming to maximize

participation and learning

• Understand what safety and accessibility standards apply to different natural

play environments

Beyond Accessibility: A Higher Level of Inclusive Play Playgrounds are a place for play and learning, where

children develop physical and cognitive skills, and where

they build valuable social relationships. However, not all

playgrounds can be considered inclusive. In this session

you’ll learn to:

• Recognize a successful playground experience for

kids of all abilities

• Design playgrounds to create value for children of

many different abilities

Designing Fitness-Focused Playgrounds Statistics on obesity rates illustrate the need for

community changes and the importance of motivating

kids to be active. Today’s playgrounds can be designed

specifically to get and keep kids active. In this session

you’ll learn to:

• Identify the physical fitness benefits kids gain

by using a playground

• Understand why playgrounds are important in

child development

• Design playgrounds with fitness benefits that help

achieve maximum physical fitness

Contact your local Landscape Structures playground consultant to coordinate a Learning Academy session that best meets your needs. Visit playlsi.com/continuing-education to learn more, or call 888.438.6574 or 763.972.5200.

Landscape Structures has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

Landscape Structures is a LA CES™-approved provider.Learning Academy presenters are representing Landscape Structures. Products presented during the session may be proprietary to Landscape Structures.

601 7th Street South, Delano, MN 55328888.438.6574 • 763.972.5200

playlsi.com

©2013 Landscape Structures Inc. Printed in the U.S.A. #755-2353

Landscape Structures Learning Academy