Successful Healthy Children blog posts for school, district, or community leadership and organizations.
The Global Recess Alliance shares a video by Dr. Lauren McNamara, showcasing The Recess Project Canada at two schools. The video presents students as primary stakeholders, highlighting innovative ways to transform recess and demonstrating the importance of community engagement in educational initiatives.
Read our inaugural newsletter with updates on school wellness, recess, special education and where to catch us live!
So proud of fellow founders of the Global Recess Alliance, Pasi Sahlberg and William Doyle for their latest work! When schools reopen, we should not ask […]
I’ve been researching recess since 2007, during my first year of doctoral training. I started researching recess because I went to a […]
Recess is the time during the school day when children can play. It is as essential to the school—to the child—as the […]
As part of the research my colleague Dr. Dale B. Fink and I are doing, we surveyed and interviewed teachers about their perspectives on recess. 100% of the teachers indicated at least one benefit of recess, but many still take it away.
My colleague Dale Borman Fink, PhD, interview children about what they think when teachers take away recess, why they think teachers do […]
“It is the supreme seriousness of play that gives it its educational importance,” said Joseph Lee, the father of the playground movement. […]
We count on our schools to provide healthful, safe learning environments. We expect a lot of our schools, and of our teachers…and they […]
