Resource Tag: Recess

The importance of youth leadership programming in elementary schools Childhood is spent brimming with fascinations of the future – ideas of what infinite potential can amount to, ambitions of fulfilling…

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. “Treat recess plans like lesson…

Meet new physical activity requirements without sacrificing instruction time If you are a principal or district administrator in Tennessee, you probably spent this summer pouring over your schedules to try…

Help every child feel welcome back to school this fall

One of the most overlooked tools in education is the power of play. Recess and extended playtime provide kids with the opportunity to solve problems, make decisions, take turns, express…

Students at Montpelier High School take 15 minutes each afternoon to unplug and unwind.

Susan Comfort, Playworks DC executive director, had an editorial placed in the Current Newspapers of Northwest Washington, D.C. You can read the article below. When my youngest started first grade, I…

Add some excitement to the playground this Spring with a tournament of your students’ favorite game.

A group of imaginative kindergarteners taught Coach Wayne the power of imaginative play and created the Imagination Station on their playground