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Playworks makes learning social skills fun during recess at Kirkbride

Posted May 16, 2018.

Through the partnership, Playworks provides Kirkbride with a coordinator once a week every month. The Playworks coordinator works with two recess coaches at Kirkbride to implement a plan on how…

http://www.phillytrib.com/the_learning_key/playworks-makes-learning-social-skills-fun-during-recess-at-kirkbride/article_01706fcb-c33e-5657-96c6-1f4675143a44.html

Playworks AmeriCorps Coaches Collaborate for Change in Milwaukee Schools

Posted March 5, 2018.

For the past six months, our incredible AmeriCorps coaches have been creating recess environments where every kid can thrive. In Wisconsin, Playworks AmeriCorps coaches commit to a full-time year of…

https://www.playworks.org/wisconsin/2018/03/05/playworks-americorps-coaches-collaborate-change-milwaukee-schools/

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Partnership teaches kids leadership, cuts bullying

Posted October 16, 2013.

KEEGO HARBOR — Promoting healthy minds, spirits and bodies, Roosevelt Elementary School has teamed with Playworks for a second year to provide organized activities that not only introduce nourishing lifestyles,…

http://www.candgnews.com/news/partnership-teaches-kids-leadership-cuts-bullying

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Why Recess Might Be the Most Important Part of School

Posted May 16, 2013.

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…

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/05/why-recess-might-be-most-important-part-school/5610/

Parents Improve School Play Space

Posted January 17, 2013.

Both as a mother and former pediatric nurse, I see kids today spending less and less time just playing! Kids’ play should entail running, skipping, jumping and hopping, using their…

https://www.playworks.org/story-of-play/parents-improve-school-play-space/

Parents Playing on the Beach

Posted September 24, 2012.

Play On comes to Santa Monica, California on October 20, 2012

https://www.playworks.org/resource/parents-playing-on-the-beach/

Examples of paper-based games

Fun Games to Play with a Piece of Paper

Posted January 30, 2014.

Six ways to make a fun game for yourself with just a piece of paper.

https://www.playworks.org/resource/fun-games-to-play-with-a-piece-of-paper/

Playtime is Over? NO WAY!!

Posted May 27, 2010.

Jill Vialet

https://www.playworks.org/news/playtime-is-over-no-way/

Bringing Out the Best: Coaching 4 Change

Posted June 22, 2016.

With the advent of Playworks’ 20th Anniversary and our aim of reaching 3.5 million kids in 7,000 schools by 2020, I've launched a blog that I am calling "Bringing out…

https://www.playworks.org/story-of-play/bringing-out-the-best-coaching-4-change/

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