We are thrilled to announce Odree from Crockett Elementary as our February Junior Coach of the Month! Odree embraced her ability to help students throughout her school in her first…
https://www.playworks.org/arizona/2017/03/03/february-junior-coach-of-the-month-2/
Recess has taken a beating in recent years. Because of shrinking budgets and ever-increasing academic demands, playground time in many school districts has dwindled, seen as a frivolous luxury. In…
William T. Machan Elementary School – Coach Paul Xavier is a fun-loving six grader at Machan Elementary School. He has great hands on the4-square court and a killer shot in…
https://www.playworks.org/arizona/2012/02/22/coaches-blog-stories-from-the-schools/
We recently conducted some research to learn more about how parents view recess at their school. While they expressed various viewpoints on how recess was going at their individual schools,…
Please join Playworks North Carolina in congratulating our newest Coach of the Month – Coach Charles Helms! This is Coach Charles’ second year as a program coordinator with Playworks, where…
https://www.playworks.org/southeast/2014/03/31/meet-our-newest-coach-of-the-month-coach-charles/
“There’s a lot of things we can do to put [playing] back in—number one, making sure kids have recess at school. That’s where they’re spending most of their time. That…
https://www.playworks.org/story-of-play/bringing-out-the-best-project-play/
In our biggest internal training to date, 135 Playworks staff gathered in Oakland, California. Staff from 22 cities joined in workshops on AmeriCorps and Coaching to Curriculum Building and Social Media.…
https://www.playworks.org/news/playworks-nation-joins-to-learn/
Playworks joined the General Mills senior leadership team and advisory board member Jamie Burrell for an energizing afternoon of play provided by the Playworks Corporate Recess Program. Burrell recognized the…
https://www.playworks.org/wisconsin/2013/04/30/general-mills-comes-to-play/
The foursquare court is often the scene of heated recess debates, but it doesn’t have to be. As a Playworks Coach, I get to teach kids how to play together…
