{"id":5261,"date":"2021-10-01T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T14:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-england\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:43:33","slug":"blue-across-rhode-island-making-recess-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-england\/2021\/10\/01\/blue-across-rhode-island-making-recess-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Across Rhode Island: Making Recess Rock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #438bc5;\">Since its innovative launch in November of 2015, Recess Rocks in Rhode Island (RRIRI) has spread safe and healthy play across the Ocean State through a collaborative partnership between Blue Cross &amp; Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BSBSRI), Playworks, and Rhode Island Healthy Schools Coalition (RIHSC).<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This partnership is one of a kind, as it aims to bring the power of play through Playworks to every student in Rhode Island in the coming years. Since its debut, Recess Rocks in Rhode Island has:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>fully \u201crocked\u201d 12 school districts<\/strong>, meaning that each school has been through the Recess Rocks core training program<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>trained 100+ schools<\/strong> to engage students in vigorous physical activity during recess and decrease disciplinary incidents that remove students from recess<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>brought a positive recess experience <\/strong>to 36,000+ students<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #438bc5;\"><strong>On Friday, September 24, Playworks New England hosted 17 BCBSRI associates on their 10th anniversary of #BlueAcrossRI2021,<\/strong><\/span> Blue Cross\u2019 annual service day to engage employees and support local nonprofits. Despite rainy weather, volunteers showed up eager to support Playworks\u2019 mission and play some games!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The morning was spent creating colorful and inspiring murals that will be hung at a Playworks partner school, Raices Dual Language Academy in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Murals ranged from rainbow swirls to phrases such as \u201cYou are welcomed, important, respected, loved\u201d but all had the same goal: to create a more dynamic, inviting, and joyful recess yard for students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a lunch and game break (we had so much fun playing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/game-library\/chewbacca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chewbacca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/game-library\/ball-toss-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team Juggle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!), volunteers shifted their focus from painting to writing welcome letters to incoming Junior Coaches in Rhode Island.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/illinois\/story-of-play\/step-into-the-sneakers-of-a-junior-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Playworks Junior Coach Leadership Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a unique opportunity for a group of 4th and 5th graders to meet for coaching on how to be a leader both in the classroom and in their community, then empowered to take those lessons onto the playground to lead recess with their younger peers while modeling positive behaviors. This year will be the first year that the Junior Coach Leadership Program is implemented in Rhode Island, and we are so grateful to our volunteers for writing powerful letters for our incoming JCs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #438bc5;\"><strong>As we enter the seventh year of Recess Rocks in Rhode Island, we cannot express how thankful we are for our partnership with Blue Cross &amp; Blue Shield Rhode Island and Rhode Island Healthy Schools Coalition. Their belief in the power of play to bring out the best in every kid is transforming schools all across Rhode Island!<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery gallery-5261 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item gallery-item--' data-height='' data-width=''><a href='https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-england\/2021\/10\/01\/blue-across-rhode-island-making-recess-rock\/blue_cross_bari2021_824-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-england\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/10\/blue_cross_bari2021_824-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-480p size-480p\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5273\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5273'>\n\t\t\t\t\tPhoto courtesy of Jeff Potter\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item gallery-item--landscape' data-height='1600' data-width='2560'><a href='https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-england\/2021\/10\/01\/blue-across-rhode-island-making-recess-rock\/blue_cross_bari2021_798-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-england\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/10\/blue_cross_bari2021_798-1-scaled-e1633097924811-768x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-480p size-480p\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-england\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/10\/blue_cross_bari2021_798-1-scaled-e1633097924811-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-england\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/10\/blue_cross_bari2021_798-1-scaled-e1633097924811-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-england\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/10\/blue_cross_bari2021_798-1-scaled-e1633097924811-1024x640.jpg 1024w, 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