Whether it’s snow, rain, smog, or cold, weather can put a wrench in recess. Playworks is here to help. This toolkit draws on our 25+ years of experience on playgrounds and…
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An educator asks: What alternative consequences to taking away recess work?
https://www.playworks.org/resource/alternatives-to-nixing-recess/>
As teachers are preparing lesson plans, learning new curriculum, and setting up their classrooms, it is time to start prepping our collective classroom: the playground. Recess deserves back to school…
https://www.playworks.org/news/checklist-back-school-back-recess/>
Play is a natural, safe way that kids can interact with people who are different and rejoice by achieving shared goals. Interacting with people who are different at a young…
https://www.playworks.org/resource/helping-kids-to-find-new-friends-and-feel-included/>
By Playworks and UNICEF Kid Power® When kids’ minds and bodies get active, either while playing or participating in service learning, they experience physical and mental benefits (and support positive…
https://www.playworks.org/empowering-kids-to-create-their-own-happiness/>
By Playworks and UNICEF Kid Power® When kids’ minds and bodies get active, either while playing or participating in service learning, they experience physical and mental benefits (and support positive…
https://www.playworks.org/resource/empowering-kids-to-create-their-own-happiness/>
“Recess is a necessary break in the day for optimizing a child’s social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development… After ‘socially isolating’ one could argue that socializing children through regular recess…
https://www.playworks.org/new-england/2021/03/17/safe-return-to-recess/>
By: Nick Veronin, Mountain View Voice Staff Behavior referrals are down and kids are more focused in class, thanks to a new program that brings greater structure to recess at…
Guest blogger Myla Marks shares how adults on the playground can get beyond “They don’t want to play with me.”
https://www.playworks.org/resource/four-tips-to-teach-fun-new-games-at-recess/>