Updates
April 23, 2012
School Recess: Playworks Provides a Playground with More Engaged, Safer Students, Research Says ›
Addressing students’ social-emotional learning through play.
9NEWS (KUSA)
April 19, 2012
Recess programs in local schools reducing bullying ›
KUSA – Strengthening recess transforms the school climate, paving the way for less bullying and more focus on learning, according to a new study. The research examined a program that…
April 18, 2012
Join Us in Passing Out High Fives All Day (and year) Long! ›
Thursday, April 19th is National High Five Day
April 16, 2012
Study shows a trained, playful adult on the playground = Less Bullying ›
Promoting positive behavior at school reduces bullying, Mathematica says
April 16, 2012
Research Reveals Playworks Reduces Bullying ›
In one of the most rigorous scientific trials to find an effect on bullying, researchers from Mathematica Policy Research and Stanford University have found that a Playworks recess can transform school climate, paving the…
Oregon Jewish Life Magazine
April 1, 2012
All work and no play makes students unruly, unhealthy and uncooperative ›
Some of my worst memories are standing on the elementary school playground hoping to be picked for games. I used to dread recess and would ask the teacher if I…
March 5, 2012
Playworks Featured in a Book ›
Playworks is featured in a new book called The Non Nonprofit, which shares how business principles can (and should) be applied to nonprofits. The books is by Steve Rothschild, who left…
February 21, 2012
2012 Conference on the Value of Play ›
Co-Chair Fran Mainella wants you to join the US Play Coalition
February 8, 2012
Now Playing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ›
We've launched our twenty-third city this year!