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Playworks Spotlight

Want to harness the power of play to make a meaningful difference in your community? Play On is an interactive symposium focused on harnessing the power of play to create bullying-free playgrounds, schools and communities. Lace up your sneakers and join us in Santa Monica on October 20 for this one-day...

After 15 years of hearing it first-hand from teachers and principals, a rigorous new study from Stanford University and Mathematica Policy Research found that a healthy recess with Playworks reduced bullying and exclusionary behavior, and facilitated students’ transitions back to classroom learning...

Playworks CEO and Founder Jill Vialet joins Mia Hamm, Venus Williams, Robin Roberts, Tina Fey and Ellen DeGeneres as one of the Women’s Sports Foundation 40 FOR 40 list. 

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Playworks is featured in a new book called The Non Nonprofit, which shares how business principles can (and should) be applied to nonprofits.
Darlene Kiyan, executive director of Playworks Los Angeles, believes she knows what doesn’t attract would-be employees.
Playworks will be attending three coastal conferences in the next month all the while, promoting safe and inclusive play. Our play experts will be...
HealthyCal.org
Elementary school teacher Vanessa Cavelli used to dread recess and the drama that could break out on the playground. “You wonder how many...
Education Week
Ask any teacher to identify these students: The child who should be focusing on a math lesson, but instead is wondering whether her parents will...

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The Power of Play
For many elementary school principals, recess is the toughest part of the day. That's when all the t More…
Training in Action
Playworks Training and Stockton Unified School District security guards, staff and coaches transform More…
What Play Can Teach Us
Jill Vialet believes that playing is essential to human development, and addresses significant educa More…