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‘Playworks’ reinvents recess as a learning experience

You won’t find swings, slides or a kickball field outside Rhawnhurst School. Instead, the elementary school’s “playground” is a vast expanse of barren blacktop with just a lone basketball hoop.
NJ.com

Nonprofit group uses recess to improve classrooms

NEWARK -- Sports4Kids, which operates in about 170 schools in eight cities across the U.S., and which now hopes to expand into Newark and several other urban New Jersey districts, uses recess play to ...
Houston Chronicle

Nonprofit Playworks helps schools provide meaningful experiences on the playground

The sound of children yelling and laughing breaks through the crisp December air at Cummings Elementary School in Alief. Kindergarteners flit across the playground, bouncing balls and hopscotching ...
FOX8 Cleveland

Kenny calls Recess Games a ‘candy store’ for game lovers

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WJW) — Recess Games sells fun and engaging games for all ages. The North Olmsted store sells everything from classic games like chess and backgammon to all of today’s hottest ...
Daily Inter Lake

Recess is more than fun and games at Edgerton

Third-graders Vanessa Pitzer, left, and Miri Smith get some exercise on the new walking path outside Edgerton Elementary School in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) ...
EdSurge

Rethinking Recess Leads to Results On and Off the Playground

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy ...