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A message from our Founder & CEO, Jill Vialet Why we should preserve the Johnson Amendment We believe that it is important to preserve the nonpartisanship of the philanthropic sector.…

My Cause, My Cleats is an National Football League campaign in which players and team staff from around the league wear cleats designed to highlight the causes they support.  Look…

October is National Bullying Prevention Month At Playworks Michigan, we promote inclusion and respect in everything that we do. This year alone, we are helping over 17,000 students feel included…

Active and healthy play helps students develop self-control, build valuable skills, and get the “brain break” needed for academic success. A report from the Institute of Medicine found that children…

We live in extraordinary times. We struggle to make sense of the catastrophes, threats, and conflicts we see at a distance and up close. Sometimes, we even forget that we…

Try out new online mini-courses from Playworks. Many of you have shared that you’d like to do more to incorporate play into learning. These mini-courses share best practices you can use…

Loma Linda Elementary reduced their chronic absence rate from 12% to 4%. The first step? Making sure that students felt safe at school, both physically and emotionally. “Portraits of Change:…

As the season transitions and temperatures cool, September is the perfect time to reflect, look ahead, regroup, and focus on our self-improvement. In fact, it is #SelfImprovementMonth. How can we…

As teachers are preparing lesson plans, learning new curriculum, and setting up their classrooms, it is time to start prepping our collective classroom: the playground. Recess deserves back to school…