Updates

  This summer marks Playworks’ 7th consecutive year participating in the Highland Street Foundation’s TADpole10—a weekly event at the TADpole Playground in the Boston Common. The program began in 2012…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) School Health Branch (CDC Healthy Schools) shared the news that 17 State Departments of Education have been awarded Fiscal Year 2018 funding through the…

On May 31, Junior Coaches from Boston’s Curley, Eliot, and Henderson Elementary schools took a field trip to the Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) offices in Downtown Boston–their third visit of…

Earlier this month, nearly 300 professionals representing 24 companies across Metro Boston ditched their desks to round the bases for the 11th annual Playworks New England Corporate Kickball Tournament. The…

  Every day at Playworks schools in Lawrence, you can see students getting active at recess and interacting with their peers and their Playworks Coach. On many days of the…

As a kid, Claire Collins loved recess. It was her time during the school day where she could play games with her peers, try new things, and imagine what life…

As a kid, Zach Brown remembers being bullied at school during recess. In fact, there were days he’d rather stay in the classroom than play outside with his peers. As…

After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017 with a dual degree in psychology and sociology, Myla Ona knew she wanted to work with kids in a non-traditional office…

Coach Dani is a first year Jesuit Volunteer Corps Coach at the Boston Teachers Union School (BTU) in Jamaica Plain. This year, Coach Dani worked hard alongside lunch staff to…