Why Partner with Playworks?
Playworks helps school districts help ensure meaningful daily play opportunities for students while also building staff confidence and leadership skills. Equip staff of all sizes and experience levels with practical strategies for managing recess, improving transitions, incorporating the power of play throughout the day.
Your staff will gain skills to:
- Lead engaging, age-appropriate play
- Manage downtime, transitions, and behavior
- Build positive adult/youth relationships
- Adapt activities to fit different spaces and needs
- Strengthen leadership and facilitation skills
““Playworks teaches great modules that will help students be more proactive and participate in learning other activities at recess, it’s such a great motivation to start our new school year and have Playworks be part of our community.”
– participant of a Playworks PRO training
Benefits for Schools
Engaged and Active Kids
94% of Playworks partners’ staff believe our program increases the number of kids engaged in physical activity with their peers.
Connected Community
98% of Playworks training participants agreed they learned new strategies to promote a welcome environment for all kids.
Relationship Building and Conflict Resolution
96% of Playworks partners’ staff believe Playworks helps students develop relationships with their peers and resolve conflicts on their own.
Playworks also helps reduce chronic absenteeism
According to a 2025 UC Berkeley, Title I schools with Playworks programming had lower chronic absence rates than Title I schools without the program.
Read more about how Playworks supports school attendance
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