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March 11, 2013
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign encourages schools to provide students with 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
Deseret News
By Whitney Evans
March 5, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — Dressed in a black suit and a light blue, button-up shirt with cufflinks, Salt Lake City Councilman Charlie Luke high-fived community members during a rousing game…
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Nicole Wallace
February 24, 2013
Playworks, a nonprofit in Oakland, Calif., thinks that Hula Hoops and relay races just might hold the key to better academic performance for elementary-school students. The organization seeks to provide…
February 14, 2013
It always feels a little risky to talk about love in the public domain. I mean, we’re already advocating for recess, how far are we going to take things? But…
The Boston Globe
By Yvonne Abraham
February 10, 2013
Occasionally, the solutions to some of education’s most -bedeviling problems are startlingly simple. Here is one of them, on a playground at the Mather Elementary School in Dorchester on a…
KATU Portland
Trainer Michael Tran shares tips and tricks for bullying prevention
February 4, 2013
Last week Playworks Training led classified staff from 10 Salem-Keizer School District elementary schools in our Power of Play and Group Management workshops. Take a look at the clip below…
February 1, 2013
Playworks founder and CEO Jill Vialet has been named a 2013 recipient of the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards. Jill is among a small group of Californians honored by the foundation…
The Advocate
BY KARI DEQUINE HARDEN, New Orleans bureau
January 21, 2013
NEW ORLEANS — For Jill Vialet, play is a very serious thing. Vialet is the founder and CEO of the Oakland-based nonprofit organization Playworks and is devoted to rebuilding a…
KSL NewsRadio
By Mary Richards
January 9, 2013
MIDVALE — A group that focuses on playtime at recess is growing in Utah. Organizers believe recess can be the key to a whole school’s performance and atmosphere. At Midvale…