Leverage evidence-based play strategies to transform the culture of your recess, classroom, or youth program!
Welcome to Playworks! We are passionate about the importance of play in child development, and we believe that every child should enjoy physical activity and safe, meaningful play every day.
- Jill Vialet, Founder of Playworks
BACKGROUND
Playworks is the leading U.S. nonprofit leveraging the power of play to transform children’s social and emotional health. We partner with schools, districts, after-school programs, and other youth-serving organizations to ensure that kids experience physical activity and safe, meaningful play every day.
WHY WE PLAY
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Teachers today are expected to teach high academic standards, but we also need to be social worker, therapist, and psychologist. Lack of funding for staff and staff development; leave many teachers unprepared to handle all of the social emotional issues our students face every day. Playworks provides students the critical social and emotional skills they need to learn effectively in the classroom, solve their own conflicts and manage their behavior. Playworks programming delivers students back to the classroom who are ready to learn, providing teachers with the support they need to optimize their school day.
- Jayne Ropella, Principal with Saint Paul Public Schools for 20 years
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