Playworks

September 17, 2012 | Grantee

Playworks improving the health and well-being of children through safe, meaningful play

Policy Briefing: Better Recess, Better Learning

A February 27, 2013, Capitol Hill briefing on how an active, inclusive recess can help students return to the classroom ready to learn.

Does Playworks Have an Impact on Schools and on the Children Who Attend Them?

September 17, 2012 | Story

Susanne N. James-Burdumy, PhD, Associate Director of Research at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., leads the random assignment evaluation of Playworks, a program that uses play to promote physical activity and youth development in schools.

Playworks: Supporting Play and Physical Activity in Low-Income Elementary Schools

January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief

The study, led by Milbrey McLaughlin, Founding Director and Rebecca London, Senior Researcher, at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University, examines the implementation of Playworks programs in eight Silicon Valley schools.

Playworks: Promoting Positive Youth Development in Low-Income Elementary Schools

January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief

This brief is one in a series of final reports from the Study of Playworks Implementation in Eight Bay Area Schools. It examines the ways that Playworks promotes positive youth development and reports students’, teachers’, and principals’ views of t ...

Playworks Implementation in Eight Bay Area Elementary Schools

December 14, 2010 | Report/Evaluation

This study examines the initial implementation of Playworks in six San Francisco and Silicon Valley schools, and measures the effectiveness of the programs in two schools with already established Playworks programs.

The State of Play

February 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll

RWJF commissioned a first-of-its-kind Gallup poll of 1,951 principals in partnership with the National Association of Elementary School Principals and Playworks, a Vulnerable Populations grantee.

Playworks Theory of Change

April 23, 2010 | Report/Evaluation

The Playworks theory of change is one product in a series of final reports from the Study of Playworks Implementation in Eight Bay Area Schools. It describes the components required to bring about the program’s long-term goal of healthy child develo ...

The Boston Schoolyard Initiative: A Study of Its Schoolyard Renovations

October 3, 2008 | Program Result

Researchers in the Boston University Department of Environmental Health conducted a case study of the Boston Schoolyard Initiative, a project that provides funds and technical support to community groups dedicated to renovating schoolyards in Boston.

Playworks: Scaling a Great Idea

October 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Changing the national conversation about how to improve American public schools—and the importance of play to children’s ability to learn.