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Articles used to update and expand the research base for Guidelines 3.0 are noted with an asterisk (*).

Adams, J. D. (2022). Manifesting Black Joy in science learning. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 17(1), 199-209.*

Brown, K. (2020). Nurturing Black Disabled Joy. In A. Wong (Ed.), Disability visibility: First-person stories from the twenty-first century (pp. 117–120). Vintage Books.*

Brownell, C. J. (2021). Writing as a minecrafter: Exploring how children blur worlds of play in the elementary English language arts classroom. Teachers College Record, 123(3), 1-19.*

Davis, S. J., Scott, J. A., Wohlwend, K. E., & Pennington, C. M. (2021). Bringing joy to school: Engaging K–16 learners through maker literacies and playshops. Teachers College Record, 123(3), 1-23.*

Forbes, L. K. (2021). The Process of Play in Learning in Higher Education: A Phenomenological Study. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 15(1), 57-73.*

Forbes, L. K., & Thomas, L. D. (Eds.). (2022). Professors at play PlayBook. Carnegie Mellon University: ETC Press.*

Gay, R. (2022). Inciting joy: Essays. Algonquin Books.*

Ginwright, S. A. (2022). The four pivots: Reimagining justice, reimagining ourselves. North Atlantic Books.*

Griffiths, M. (2012). Why joy in education is an issue for socially just policies. Journal of Education Policy, 27(5), 655–670.*

Heljakka, K. (2023). Building playful resilience in higher education: Learning by doing and doing by playing. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 8, p. 1071552). Frontiers Media SA.*

Husbye, N. E. (2021). Leveraging the Power of Play in Rehearsals: Supporting Complex Practice in Literacy Teacher Education. Teachers College Record, 123(3), 1-18.*

Kinchin, I. M. (2018). Having fun, playing games and learning biology. Journal of Biological Education, 52(2), 121-121.*

Lawson, T. K. (2023). Teaching homeplace: How teachers can cultivate Black Joy through culturally responsive practices in the classroom. Theory Into Practice, 1–10.*

Leather, M., Harper, N., & Obee, P. (2021). A pedagogy of play: Reasons to be playful in postsecondary education. Journal of Experiential Education, 44(3), 208-226.*

Lesser, L. M., Wall, A. A., Carver, R. H., Pearl, D. K., Martin, N., Kuiper, S., ... & Weber III, J. J. (2013). Using fun in the statistics classroom: An exploratory study of college instructors' hesitations and motivations. Journal of Statistics Education, 21(1).*

Love, B. L. (2019). We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press.*

Muhammad, G., Martinez, L., Baylis, L., Aguilar, E., & Eakins, S. L. (2023). Unearthing joy: A guide to culturally and historically responsive curriculum and instruction. Scholastic Inc.*

Ntoulia, A. (2023). Tapping playful research to create an inclusive classroom community. YC: Young Children, 78(3).*

Pearson, H., & Hernandez-Saca, D. I. (2024). Recentering and claiming joy and radical love in education. Theory Into Practice.*

Rust, J. (2021). Painting and podcasting as play: Assemblages (with) in classroom-situated multimodal design. Teachers College Record, 123(3), 1-20.*

Thiel, J. J. (2021). “What happens in the fort, stays in the fort!”: Awakening embodied play literacies through fort building in an early childhood methods classroom. Teachers College Record, 123(3), 1-20.*

Thiel, J. J., & Wohlwend, K. (2021). # Playrevolution: Engaging equity through the power of play. Teachers College Record, 123(3), 1-7.*

Vlach, S. K., Lentz, T. S., & Muhammad, G. E. (2023). Activating joy through culturally and historically responsive read‐alouds. The Reading Teacher 77(1), 121-130.*

Wise, C. N., & Ward, A. E. (2023). Designing culturally responsive literacy centers to include and go beyond skills. The Reading Teacher, 76(5), 646-652.*

Woods, A., & Jeffries, M. (2021). “Monsters are coming!”: Learning literacy and playing games. Teachers College Record, 123(3), 1-22.*

Zosh, J. N., Hopkins, E. J., Jensen, H., Liu, C., Neale, D., Hirsh-Pasek, K., ... & Whitebread, D. (2017). Learning through play: A review of the evidence. Billund, Denmark: LEGO Fonden.*