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Definitely. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By day three, prinicpals, teachers and school playground assistants were astonished by the transformation. Recess fights had become all but nonexistent. Kids were playing together without conflict, following directions and having the time of their lives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One teacher told her principal about how two boys who often carried their recess conflicts into the classroom were about to get into a fight during classtime, and stopped in their tracks. <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&quot;Coach said we don&#39;t do that anymore,&quot; one said, and they quickly used rock-paper-scissors, then got back to the business of learning. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By the end of the week, six of nine principals had reworked their budgets to bring Playworks back in the fall.&nbsp; The remaining three schools were crunching numbers to do the same.&nbsp; The Recess Roll Out was so successful that it attracted newspaper and televsion coverage and a $30,000 commitment from the Eagles Youth Partnership to make sure that Phillys&nbsp;will have a great year at recess!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a sunny Monday morning in May 2010, Playworks coaches descended on playgrounds all over Philadelphia to transform chaotic recess periods to times when every kid participates, learns to positively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"region":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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