Today’s children face countless challenges when accessing safe and healthy play. Many elementary schools lack the basic infrastructure or personnel needs to support a daily recess for students. Alexandra Gardner,…
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Playworks supporters from far and wide gathered at Improper City on Wednesday evening for an epic tournament showdown of Rock, Paper, Scissors Relay. Six teams battled it out in true…
Playworks’ 2013 Most Valuable Principal, Mr. Adam Parrott-Sheffer, hails from Chicago’s Mary .J. Peterson Elementary School. Mr. P, as everyone calls him, cares so much about play that he’s made sure there…
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Misha Simmonds of University Heights Charter School in Newark, NJ, has been honored as Playworks’ Most Valuable Principal. University Heights students at the school describe him as “silly, a great player, a…
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IMC Financial Markets, Schiff Hardin LLP, and Konica Minolta all came out for a day of fun, sun, friendly competition and team-building at Chicago's famous Grant Park. Schiff Hardin walked…
TeamUp, the latest program from Playworks, has enabled us to quadruple the number of schools we can empower.
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Junior Coach Crystal is a 4th grader at the Tobin K–8 School in Roxbury. Although Crystal isn’t the most loud or outgoing Junior Coach at the Tobin, she stands out…
https://www.playworks.org/new-england/2019/01/23/junior-coach-crystal-steps-up-and-succeeds/>
Coach Travis Evans is reintroducing kids to skills disrupted because of the pandemic…A program specialist for nonprofit Playworks, Evans shows classrooms how to play games that get more challenging each round. Visits…
The Playworks Boston Marathon Run for Recess team officially completed the 121st Boston Marathon this past week. But for two of our runners, Mark Adamiak and Victoria Kay, the work…