DeShea Blake is Playworks Durham’s April Coach of the Month. Shea is a second-year coach at Eno Valley Elementary School. Coach Blake is doing a great job with his program…
https://www.playworks.org/southeast/2013/05/14/april-coach-of-the-month-deshea-blake/>
Download a new guide to more than 150 games that will help kids practice social and emotional skills. Find games by skill, grade level, time and space available, and more.…
https://www.playworks.org/resources/get-the-sel-game-guide/>
Southern California Playworks engaged kids in a day filled with fun activities and games at the 2012 Play On Symposium in Santa Monica. AmeriCorps coaches ran multiple stations with specialized…
https://www.playworks.org/southern-california/2013/01/16/socal-coaches-at-play-on-2012/>
When kids experience play that is safe and inclusive, the joy of being a child shines through. It makes perfect sense. Kids can’t wait to jump into recess when they feel there’s…
https://www.playworks.org/news/spread-joy-support-playworks/>
Before coaches started organizing recess activities at more than a dozen city schools, small conflicts could escalate quickly. Arguing, shoving, kids egging on the drama, suspensions and later disruptions in…
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Summer games of yesteryear
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Download a new guide to more than 150 games that will help kids practice social and emotional skills. Find games by skill, grade level, time and space available, and more.…
https://www.playworks.org/resources/get-the-sel-game-guide-2/>
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…
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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/>