As I was walking through the school after recess, a parent walked up to me and asked me if I was the coach. I said yes. She went on to tell me…
https://www.playworks.org/georgia/2016/01/14/great-story-from-coach-jubee/>
As I was walking through the school after recess, a parent walked up to me and asked me if I was the coach. I said yes. She went on to tell me…
https://www.playworks.org/georgia/2016/01/14/great-story-from-coach-jubee/>
The founder of a nonprofit organization that brings recess back into low-income urban schools understands why education reformers focus on what happens in the classroom.
With bullying a continuing national concern, Playworks’ Real Players Don’t Bully campaign is partnering with Google’s Be Internet Awesome program to call attention to the need to empower the next…
https://www.playworks.org/illinois/event/talks-at-google-real-players-dont-bully/>
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…
On a drizzly Tuesday night in late January, 200 people came out to hear a psychiatrist talk rhapsodically about play — not just the intense, joyous play of children, but…
Study also finds greater resiliency at schools that offer an extra boost of safe and healthy play
https://www.playworks.org/news/new-research-shows-decline-in-emotional-health/>
Stuck inside? Get all the energy out so you and the kids make it through the day in one piece!
https://www.playworks.org/resource/six-active-indoor-games-for-kids/>
Playworks team members flew from cities across the country to bring more play to recess yards around Phoenix, Arizona. Below is some of what those coaches experienced and heard. “I…
https://www.playworks.org/arizona/2011/09/07/recess-rollout-story-from-phoenix-az/>
Playworks Southern California is pleased to present this impact report, which provides highlights of our work during the 2015-16 school year for our Coach and TeamUp direct service programs. Playworks…