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Playworks Founder Named to Forbes List of Top Social Entrepreneurs
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Playworks improves learning by providing and organizing play throughout the schoolday.
Playworks Founder and CEO addresses TEDx in Albuquerque with "What play can teach us."

Playworks Blog

Common sense and studies show us that kids need a break during the school day. If that break does not allow them to get...
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Playworks Spotlight

Playworks CEO and Founder Jill Vialet has been named one of the 30 most influential social entrepreneurs, according to Forbes Magazine.

For the first time in their 94-year history, Forbes assembled the Impact 30: a list of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. The magazine defines “social entrepreneur” as a person who uses business to solve social issues. The selection was made by a panel of blue ribbon experts, tasked with identifying “social entrepreneurs who are tackling the world's most intractable problems.”

Playworks is kicking off the school year with our first-ever national partnership. Mattel has signed on to help us to expand our commitment that every child has a chance to play every day. Mattel has already been working...

Playworks is thrilled to share partnership opportunities that will help ensure all children have the opportunity to play at school every day. We are launching a national expansion, reaching every major metropolitan area...

News & Events

Are you passionate about promoting the power of play? Do you want to run one of the most prestigious marathons in the world?

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Read the proclamation by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. 

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The Washington Post - The Answer Sheet

Play matters but too many schools don’t give kids a chance to enjoy themselves.

Here’s a story about a school that had no...

New York Times

In his Fixes column in the New York Times, writer David Bornstein explores what educators might gain if, instead of...

ABC Good Morning America

Play and recess are essential to healthy childhood development. But many schools are cutting back on this important time of the school day.

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Playworks Training provides training and support to schools and organizations that wish to support fun, teamwork, conflict resolution, safety and inclusiveness on their playgrounds.

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The Power of Play
For many elementary school principals, recess is the toughest part of the day. That's when all the t More…
Training in Action
Playworks Training and Stockton Unified School District security guards, staff and coaches transform More…
Playworks: Maximizing the Return on Recess
Playworks and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are supporting education by making play a valuable More…
Playworks Founder Jill Vialet at TEDxSF
Ashoka Fellow Jill Vialet, founder of Playworks, gave a wonderful talk recently at TEDxSF about crea More…
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