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A playground program at many Portland-area elementary schools significantly curbs bullying, improves school climate and increases vigorous student activity, a new study shows. But for Playworks, a national nonprofit organization…

There is nothing fancy about the schoolyard at P.S. 309 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. It’s just a few hundred square feet of bare asphalt bounded by a chain…

In-school coaches, training help reduce the discipline problems associated with recess – which pediatricians say is critical to healthy development, but can also be the crucible of conflicts between kids …

Recent actions and debates on school bullying across the state have focused on reporting and on holding schools and individuals accountable for not doing enough to protect students. But how…

Stansbury Elementary School was selected as FOX 13′s Cool School of the Week for March 20. http://fox13now.com/2013/03/20/cool-school-creative-conflict-resolution-at-stansbury-elem/

SALT LAKE CITY — Dressed in a black suit and a light blue, button-up shirt with cufflinks, Salt Lake City Councilman Charlie Luke high-fived community members during a rousing game…

Playworks, a nonprofit in Oakland, Calif., thinks that Hula Hoops and relay races just might hold the key to better academic performance for elementary-school students. The organization seeks to provide…

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…

Last week Playworks Training led classified staff from 10 Salem-Keizer School District elementary schools in our Power of Play and Group Management workshops. Take a look at the clip below…