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Porterville Recorder Porterville, CA Jumping, skipping and hopping on the school blacktop is making a comeback at Santa Fe Elementary School where school officials are implementing “Peaceful Playground” — a structured play area that incorporates language arts, geography and mathematics into a play program. “It’s already generating a lot of interest. No one has told [...]
Read More » - A Better Recess using Rock, Paper, Scissors
By Terri Pederson Daily Citizen – Beaver Dam, WI December 2006 Students at Jefferson Elementary School are participating in a new playground program designed to reduce conflicts during recess time. It’s called the Peaceful Playground Program. Third-grader Carlos Biddle said that the playground is friendlier than it was last year. “Boys and girls take turns,” [...]
Read More » - A Playground Design that Fights Playground Politics
May 2008 Chicago Daily Herald – Chicago, IL Teachers and staff at Lakeview Elementary in Hoffman Estates know recess is meant for exercise, so the new playground design fights politics and conflicts. But they’d searched fruitlessly for a way to encourage the former and discourage the latter among students. Then a staff member whose own [...]
Read More » - Advent Lutheran School Achieves Peace on Playground
Peaceful Playgrounds gets kids active and childhood obesity intervention September 2010 Tribune – Boca Raton, FL Given the jungle rules of some playgrounds, where the biggest and toughest tend to dominate, consider the scene recently at Advent Lutheran School. A recess came and went, with children running loose during a sublime afternoon, and nobody cried, [...]
Read More » - An Updated Playground is More than Play SpaceNew Play Space Project Began in November By Cathie Ericson The Oregonian – Wilsonville, OR February 2008 A peaceful playground — isn’t that the dream of all students, parents and educators? Where recess is a time of socialization, fresh air and physical activity, rather than a period marked by conflict and bullying. That’s the concept [...]
Read More » - Appleton School Solves Recess ConflictSeptember 2009 By Ryan Dietz WLUK-TV – Appleton, WI Recess used to be just sliding and swinging at Johnston Elementary School in Appleton but overtime recess conflicts grew. Now a program to get more kids involved has them adding hopscotch, four-square, and jump rope to the mix. “There’s like more games that you can play [...]
Read More » - Ashley Falls’ School Climate – Peaceful Playground Information
Ashley Falls’ School News School Climate Improving with Peaceful Playgrounds Have you noticed how peaceful Ashley Falls’ playground is? This year we are implementing the Peaceful Playgrounds program to improve the school climate at Ashley Falls. The program provides consistent rules and expectations and the opportunity for students of all ages to participate in fun [...]
Read More » - At Armatage, a Peaceful Playground
April 2005 Southwest Journal – Minneapolis, MN Peaceful Playground Take Shape At Armatage Later this year, a giant, colorful U.S. playground map and grids for math problems and word play games will be spray-painted on a freshly paved “Peaceful Playground” at Armatage Community and Montessori School, 2501 W. 56th St. Armatage’s existing playground looks more [...]
Read More » - Bellview’s New Playground Design September 2003 By Lynn Atkins Rogers Hometown News At Bellview Elementary, the newest tool for teachers measures 40 feet by 100 feet.It’s their new playground design by Peaceful Playgrounds. It’s also the perfect example of teamwork between the school, the parents and the city, according to playground improvement coordinator Stacey Kinzer. The Peaceful Playground was [...]
Read More » - Bringing Peace to the School PlaygroundMarch 2008 Burbank Leader – Burbank, CA Bringing peace to a school playground may not be easy. During a game of four-square at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School Wednesday, second-graders Luis Reyes, 7, and Cassidy McNeill, 8, reached an impasse over a point. “It was in,” Luis said. “It’s out!” Cassidy fired back. But before the [...]
Read More » - Bringing Peace to the School Playground
Redlands Daily Facts August 2004 In 1973, an idea struck Los Angeles educator Melinda Bossenmeyer after years of being a teacher and a principal within the Riverside County Department of Education. “I noticed that some kids didn’t have many of the skills necessary in peaceably solving problems on the school playground,” she says. Also, “Kids [...]
Read More » - Bringing Peaceful Play to the Elementary School Playground
Miami County Republic Paola, KS October 2010 The kindergartners’ eyes grow big as they walk through the door at Cottonwood Elementary in Paola on Tuesday and catch sight of their colorful new playground. Cottonwood Elementary School kindergartner Shelia Kreusch enjoys the playground’s new colorful hopscotch design during recess Tuesday afternoon. After lining up along a [...]
Read More » - Carlsbad school achieves peaceful playground
Lisa Petrillo The San Diego Union Tribune – 05/02 Given the jungle rules of some playgrounds, where the biggest and toughest tend to dominate, consider the scene recently at El Camino Creek Elementary. A recess came and went, with 822 children running loose during a sublime spring afternoon and no body cried, got punched, [...]
Read More » - CKSD Bringing Peace to the Playground
CKSD Bringing Peace to the Playground - November 2009 PNW News – Puget Sound, WA Freshly painted on the blacktop in the Jackson Park Elementary School playground lies a circle of colorful shapes. A recess supervisor stands in the center and calls out different colors and motions, as the excited children jump, skip or hop from [...]
Read More » - Conflict Resolution & Physical Activity Drive Outdoor Activities on Playground
July 2010 By Mary Spicer Tribune – Meadville, PA It’s summertime, when the livin’ is supposed to be easy. With the midpoint of the summer vacation season rapidly approaching, however, easy has a way of slipping over the border into boring, especially for those not quite old enough to independently head off in search [...]
Read More » - Eagle View boasts Unstructured Recess with Peaceful Playgrounds
September 2009 By Katie Anderson Pine River Journal – Pine River, MN One of the parking lots at Eagle View Elementary School will serve a much bigger purpose this school year. The parking lot where school buses drop off and pick up students will now be used for Eagle View’s unstructured recess program called Peaceful [...]
Read More » - Eagle View Students are in for a Nice Surprise on School Playground
September 2009 By Jodie Tweed Brainerd Dispatch – Brainerd, MA When students hop off their buses at Eagle View Elementary School Tuesday, they will be pleasantly surprised at what the new school playground has in store for them this fall. In addition to new play spaces on the school playground, students may take a walk [...]
Read More » - Education Changes Brings Outdoor classroom
October 2010 Pioneer Press – Elmhurst, IL Computers and the Internet are changing the way many children learn, but one part of the school day that has remained fairly consistent is recess. “We all need fresh air and exercise to rejuvenate us,” said Melinda McMahon, principal of Madison School in Hinsdale. Call them “brain [...]
Read More » - Effects of Peaceful Playgrounds on Injury Reduction
San Diego County Office of Education Dr. Rudy M. Castruita County Superintendent of Schools Editor: Mary Blackman, Coordinator Physical Education/Health Winter 2005 A case study examined the effects of the Peaceful Playgrounds Program on injury reduction (Bossenmeyer, M. & Owens, K. 2004). The six-year longitudinal study evaluated how the adoption of and operation of the Peaceful [...]
Read More » - Eliminate School Recess? California State University San Marcos
Eliminate School Recess? Let’s Skip It! Melinda Bossenmeyer, Ed.D. California State University San Marcos Every decade or so educators stumble upon a really bad idea. The elimination of school recess is one such current example. Citing valid, yet, inconveniencing reasons such as liability concerns, supervision hardships, and the pressure to increase academic achievement, some educators [...]
Read More » - Employing Brain Based Learning to Inspire InstructionPeaceful Playgrounds Inspires Active Play - February 2009 “Teachers who are new to brain based learning are often in awe of how the brain remembers, and of how many different memory systems there are,” explains Brain Lady” Marilee Sprenger. “Although many brain based learning principles are followed instinctively, once teachers know why and how the principles [...]
Read More » - Grants Take Kids a Hop, Skip and Jump from Video Games
June 2009 By Beth Gollob Oklahoman – Oklahoma City, OK For many adults, hopscotch and jump rope seem like games every child should know. But with a computer or video game system in nearly every household, outdoor physical activity has become increasingly rare during the past decade, said Wendy Jones, executive director of the child [...]
Read More » - Imagine Schools on Broadway to feature Peaceful Playground Program
New Playground Program added to Imagine Schools August 2008 By Staff Reporter Times Online – Fort Wayne, IN Imagine Schools has enrolled over 400 students for the 2008-2009 school year at its Broadway campus, Imagine Schools on Broadway. Imagine Schools opened its first Fort Wayne school in 2007, Imagine MASTer Academy, which is located on [...]
Read More » - Kids Learn How to Play Nice
January 2009 By Andrea Rivera Arizona Daily Star – Tucson, AZ Minor spats and disagreements between children on the Twin Peaks Elementary School playground don’t require adult intervention as long as the students know how to play nice by using rock, paper, scissors. “We taught them walk, talk or rock, which means walk away and [...]
Read More » - lGames gain popularity on elementary school playground
By Nicole Wagner Mount Prospect Times - Park Ridge, IL November 3, 2005 A divided white rectangle marks the most popular piece of asphalt on the Indian Grove Elementary School playground. Children say they love bounceball, foursquare, hopscotch and other games they are playing at the Mount Prospect school. They have an ambitious group of [...]
Read More » - Local school achieves Peace with School Recess Program
June 2008 New School Recess Program to Eliminate Problem Programs By Staff Reporter Altus Times Given the jungle rules of some playgrounds, where the biggest and toughest tend to dominate, consider the scene recently at Washington Elementary School. A recess came and went, with children running loose during a sublime afternoon, and nobody cried, got [...]
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A Plan for Playground Games - March 2005 Melinda Bossenmeyer Creates Peaceful Playgrounds Too often, children are sent from the playground to the principal’s office or the school nurse. Former physical education teacher and elementary school principal Melinda Bossenmeyer launched Peaceful Playgrounds 15 years ago to address discipline problems and advance social and motor skills development. [...]
Read More » - More Fun with Productive Play During Outdoor Recess
By Jane Long The Breeze-Courier October 2003 Students enjoy outdoor recess with lots of game choices. Taylorville - Four third-grade students at North Elementary School urgently request bean bags from the playground supervisor in order to play hopscotch as outdoor recess starts. They grab the bags, run to the game board stenciled on the concrete and [...]
Read More » - Mount Shasta’s: Peaceful Playground
By Paul Boerger Mount Shasta News September 2003 The Mount Shasta Elementary School playground has been recently transformed by a group of parents and citizens from the old style run around and see what happens play yard into a colorful, organized and Peaceful Playground. With approximately $1,700 from the local fund-raising group Partners in Education [...]
Read More » - N.H. Schools Move Beyond Traditional PlaygroundThe Boston Globe – New Boston, NH November 2006 They didn’t get the water slide they wanted, but they got almost everything else. At New Boston Central School the new playground is not the traditional playground. Children helped design and construct the 35-foot (dry) slide built into a hillside, the fitness course that winds [...]
Read More » - Neighborhood School to Unveil Peaceful Playground Thanks to Playground Grant
By News Service Univ. of St. Thomas – St. Paul, MN St. Mark’s School, a Catholic school located near the University of St. Thomas’ St. Paul campus, will unveil a new “Peaceful Playground” this week, thanks to a playground grant it received from St. Thomas’ 2010 Gibney Awards. The Gibney Awards, selected by students in UST’s [...]
Read More » - New Games Help Students Keep the Peace During Recess
August 2010 By Tara Hettinger Tribune – Jeffersonville, IN Some stenciled paint on the ground coupled with balls, bean bags and other accessories are helping students keep the peace on the playground at Riverside Elementary School. It’s all a part of Peaceful Playgrounds, where schools pay to get the blueprints and activity guides. “Before it [...]
Read More » - New Peaceful Playground includes painted blacktop games
W. L. Morse Newsletter Winfield L. Morse 2006 News - Sleepy Hollow, NY April 20, 2006 Wouldn’t it be wonderful to look out over a playground where children were distributed evenly, laughing and playing peacefully, and supervisors were observing this phenomenon without raising their voices, their whistles, or their blood pressures? This is now the [...]
Read More » - New Playground Program Tackles Bullying and Childhood Obesity
Playground program tackles bullying and childhood obesity October 2010 Opinion – Miami County Republic – Paola, KS Two of the biggest issues facing youths these days are childhood obesity and bullying, and Cottonwood Elementary School in Paola is about to institute a program that could help tackle both problems. Thanks to an impressive stretch of [...]
Read More » - New Playground Teaches Problem Solving Skills
September 2008 By Ginger ten Bensel KHAS-TV – Hastings, NE A playground with a lot to offer is in the works in Doniphan. It is called a Peaceful Playground. It is a playground where children can enjoy playing together in groups and learn problem solving skills at the same time. The playground has age appropriate [...]
Read More » - New school recess program awaits at Olmsted SchoolNew school year new school recess program. By Paula Vogler Easton Journal – Easton, MA August 26, 2005 A new school playground for students at the Olmsted School, and cleaned and landscaped grounds at both the Richardson and Olmsted Schools will enhance the excitement for school recess for those returning to classes in September. Olmsted [...]
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Read More » - North School PTA Organizing School into Peaceful Playground
By Jane Long The Breeze-Courier September 2003 PTA Members Organize Playground for Students Taylorville - Recess – it’s supposed to provide young students with a time to release pent up energy after sitting at their desks, a time to make friends and have fun while exercising. But too many times today, recess can develop into a [...]
Read More » - On the Path to Playground Peace Thanks to PEP Grant Moorpark Acorn News 10-28-2011 New program in school district battles bullying By Darleen Principe Moorpark kids are learning how to keep the peace on the playground, one conflict at a time thanks to new PEP Grant. In an effort to battle bullying and teach basic conflict-resolution skills, the Moorpark Unified School District is implementing a [...]
Read More » - Painting Playground Games at Center Woods Elementary
August 2004 Goffstown News Recess at Center Woods Elementary School will be a lot more interesting and fun this year. As part of the Peaceful Playgrounds program, volunteers have been painting playground games such as hopscotch, pickle, around the world, four square, and number and letter grids. “I’m excited,” said Assistant Principal Laura Stoneking. “I [...]
Read More » - Parents Plan Play Upgrade to Increase Physical Activity
Parents Plan Play Upgrade August 2008 By Elizabeth Roman The Republican – Longmeadow, MA Besides the typical slides, swings and monkey bars they usually see on their playground, the students at Center School on Longmeadow Street will participate in outdoor physical activity that doesn’t involve any equipment. Elizabeth Baron, the co-president of the Center School [...]
Read More » - Parents Purport Paint Job Creates Peaceful Playground
August 2009 By Bret Liebendorfer Columbus News – Columbus, OH Working on their hands and knees, parent volunteers have been busy painting symbols and patterns they hope will upgrade the Norwich Elementary School playground. The volunteers are working to turn the space into a Peaceful Playground, which aims to increase exercise and educational opportunities while [...]
Read More » - Peace spreads on playgrounds around Marana as kids learn to solve problems.
Schools throughout district utilize program that encourages problem solving and play Most people don’t think “conflict resolution” when looking back on their childhood playground experiences, but students in several Marana Unified School District Schools might end up doing just that. Peaceful Playgrounds is a series of age-appropriate games and learning activities that are painted onto [...]
Read More » - Peace to Prevail on Elementary School Playground
Houston County News – La Crosse, WI November 2010 On an elementary school playground, the biggest and most boisterous kids tend to rule the roost. If they cut in line to use the monkey bars, no one will stop them. If they want to change the rule to a game, they’ll probably get their way. [...]
Read More » - Peace! New Playground Equipment and Games Designed for Harmony
June 2009 By Hugh Gallagher Observer – Detroit, MI Keep children busy doing interesting things and you’ll keep them out of trouble. That truism is the idea behind Peaceful Playgrounds, a program out of California that changes schoolyard blacktops into colorful games s and new playground equipment. Next fall, all four South Redford elementary schools [...]
Read More » - Peaceful Playground at South Elementary Curbs Playground Problems
St. Peter Herald – St Peter, MN Many St. Peter Public School and parochial school students will return to the classroom on Sept. 7 for the start of the school year. What this new year will bring is anyone’s guess, but teachers and staff at South Elementary Early Learning Center are making an attempt to [...]
Read More » - Peaceful Playground painted at Yulee School for Physical Education Classes
Peaceful Playground painted at Yulee School - September 2010 News Leader – Yulee, FL “Peaceful Playgrounds will provide our students with wonderful age appropriate activities during their physical education time.” “It’s fun for parents, teachers as well as the students and we look forward to the Peace Playground kick-off involving the community this Friday,” said Yulee [...]
Read More » - Peaceful Playground Teaches Social Skills
November 2008 By Christina Styan The Standard-Times – Dartmouth, MA Outside the Quinn Elementary School, on the Second Step Peaceful Playground, kids learn social skills like respect. Inside, as part of “Mix It Up Day for Lunch” kids learn to make new friends. For the youngsters, it seems to be the perfect combination. The money [...]
Read More » - Peaceful Playgrounds Create Colorful Backdrop for Engaging Physical Activities with PEP Grant
September 2009 By Jeb Chicago Tribune – Highland Park, IL Elementary school playgrounds in North Shore School District 112 have changed colors over the summer thanks to a two-year Carol A. White PEP Grant for improving physical fitness for students in grades kindergarten through fifth, each of the eight District 112 elementary school playgrounds has [...]
Read More » - Peaceful Playgrounds Recess Program Benefits Park Terrace
ABC Newspapers – Coon Rapids, MN December 2012 Nearly four months into a new recess program and Park Terrace Elementary School is already reaping the benefits. Peaceful Playground is making a difference, said Dean Downs, Park Terrace’s physical education teacher. Downs, with the help of staff, has spearheaded the school’s Peaceful Playground Recess Program. “Teachers [...]
Read More » - Peaceful Playgrounds Reduction In Playground ProblemsHow to have a Peaceful Playgrounds - 1999 Aria Lopez-Rosende Principal, Pioneer Elementary I first learned about Peaceful Playgrounds (PP) as a classroom teacher over 10 years ago and heard about the resulting reduction in playground problems. Then I became I Principal of Pioneer Elementary in Escondido and realized that with a playground of less than [...]
Read More » - Peaceful Playgrounds Starts at Loretto
January 2011 Douglas Dispatch – Douglas, AZ Peaceful Playgrounds Wouldn’t be wonderful to look out over a playground where children were laughing and playing peacefully, and supervisors were observing this could do so without raising their voices, blowing their whistles, or increasing their blood pressure? It’s almost more than one can imagine. Or is it? [...]
Read More » - Play Right at Recess- It’s Like A Miracle
Play Right Marni Pyke The Northwest Herald A year ago, controlled bedlam reigned in the South Elementary School playground in Crystal Lake during recess. Children played a chaotic version of soccer that led to brawls and name calling. Those intimidated by the rough games wandered around the playground aimlessly at recess. Teachers wasted time dealing [...]
Read More » - Playground Favorites Making Comeback
By Darlene Pellechia Naples Daily News October 2007 Remember hop scotch, four-square and leap frog? These games of yesteryear are making a comeback on the playground at Osceola Elementary School thanks to a program called Peaceful Playgrounds, part of the school’s Positive Behavior Support Process. According to Osceola Asst. Principal Tammie Stewart, the concept is [...]
Read More » - Playground Games Cuts Down on Injuries and Resolves ConflictsKane County Chronicle September 2004 The action was fast-paced as fifth-graders at Wild Rose Elementary School learned the rules of new playground games. Bean bag four square involves tossing and catching a bean bag with a scoop. “It’s fun because it’s very athletic,” student Cameron Staroske said. The rules to the playground games are simple: [...]
Read More » - Playground helps resolve recess problems
By Alexa Jenner Downers Grove Reporter – Downers Grove, IL September 2007 In an effort to curtail recess problems, Whittier School has opened the new year with a “Peaceful Playground.” Researching for a project for a bully prevention class last summer, Whittier’s physical education teacher Jeanne Smith came across the Peaceful Playgrounds Program. Problems during [...]
Read More » - Playground makes for Peaceful Recess
The Republican – Palmer, MA January 2008 Old Mill Pond Elementary School now has a “peaceful playground” and peaceful recess. Instead of pupils playing basketball and hopscotch in the same area and running into each other, there are separate “zones” for activities. While children can move freely between the four zones, school officials say the [...]
Read More » - Playground Painting = Recreation Plus Education
The Daily Record/Sunday News – York, PA August 2008 McKinley Elementary students will start the year with a new playground. Red, yellow, blue and orange shapes, letters, and numbers were part of a playground painting project which will greet students at McKinley Elementary when they return to school this week. With paint, a plan and [...]
Read More » - Playground program aims to boost physical activity
By Cheri Carlson Ventura County Star Newspaper October2007 Kaity Webster had a list of new rules to learn at her Camarillo school this year, but she didn’t complain when she saw what she got in return. The fifth-grader returned to University Preparation School to find the asphalt painted with tricycle tracks, maps, and alphabet and [...]
Read More » - Playing Nice Just Got a Little Easier
December 2009 By Tracy Garcia Whittier Daily News – Whittier, CA Playing nice just got a little easier for students at Nelson Elementary School. And it’s due in great part to the elbow grease of dozens of parents, staffers and kids who gave up their free time last weekend to help set up the campus’ [...]
Read More » - Principal Hopes to Implement Peaceful Playground With School Grant
School grant provides new games and activities for students at recess. June 2009 By Christine Haines Herald-Standard – Uniontown, PA Imagine a playground without pushing, shoving or kids standing on the sideline of the activities feeling left out. That’s what California Area Middle School principal Ray Huffman did after reviewing student surveys. “I look at [...]
Read More » - Program Levels Playground Playing Field with Elementary School Recess Games
December 2009 By Travis Perry The Graphic – Osawatomie, KS When most parents think back to memories of elementary school recess games and the politics of the playground, recess time probably is not remembered as a democratic experience. Not everyone was picked to play on a team, rules for any given game varied depending on [...]
Read More » - Promoting Peaceful Play at Northwest Elementary School
May 2009 By Joie Tyrrell NewsDay – Melville, NY Research indicates that there is an absence of peaceful play and a prevalence of bullying in schools is increasing on a regular basis and that most bullying occurs on school playgrounds. With this in mind, the staff at Amityville’s Northwest Elementary School, along with the COMPASS [...]
Read More » - Recess and P.E. Critical to Succes
Back to School Not only adults but also children need physical activity in order to stay happy, healthy, and focused. If you have children of your own, this won’t come as a surprise. However, one out of every four school-age children are being severely limited in the amount of physical activity allowed during the school [...]
Read More » - Recess Program Reduces Playground Conflicts and Rough PlaySouth Elementary School Web Parents Information - 2001 Parents Information Website - 2001 Illinois - South School has utilized the Peaceful Playgrounds program successfully for the past two years. This program, developed by Melinda Bossenmeyer, Ed.D. has had a great impact playground conflicts and rough play during recess time. Playground conflicts and rough play have been reduced to [...]
Read More » - Remember tag? Red Rover? No more. Playround Safety Rules.
The Wichita Eagle – Wichita, KS April 2005 Remember tag? Red Rover? Hanging upside down on the monkey bars? Climbing up the slide? Jumping off the swings? No more. Now playground safety rules. Those traditional playground antics have gone the way of chalkboard slates at most schools. Concerns about injuries, fights and other problems have [...]
Read More » - School Bell: Time to Play Recess Games
August 2010 By Trine Gallegos Contra Costa Times – Antioch, CA When Belshaw Elementary students hit the pavement at recess last week, they were treated to a slew of new fun and new recess games. It’s all part of the nationwide Peaceful Playgrounds that transform a bland concrete area into a schoolyard with colorful games [...]
Read More » - Schools add cooperative games to playground
By Julie Murphy Harold-Advocate – Park Ridge, IL September 1, 2005 Old school yard favorites such as hopscotch and four square are re-emerging at the schools within Park Ridge – Niles Elementary District 64. Parent and teacher volunteers have painted the playground surfaces of Roosevelt and Field Schools with “cooperative games” to create “Peaceful Playgrounds” [...]
Read More » - Sheboygan Falls Elementary Gets a Playground Makeover
August 2009 By Jeff Pederson Sheboygan Falls – Plymouth, WI When students return to Sheboygan Falls Elementary School for the first day of the 2009-10 school year, a whole new world of fun, fitness and creativity awaits from the school’s playground makeover. Thanks to the initiative, hard work and dedication of many teachers, staff and [...]
Read More » - Simple Games Bring Structured Recess Games Bring New Fun
October 2008 By Dave Aeikens St Cloud Times – St.Cloud, MN All the paint on the sidewalks and basketball court at Westwood Elementary School is serving to provide a more structured recess setting. In one spot, children are playing the classic game hopscotch while nearby others play a passing game called step back and a [...]
Read More » - Southdowns School Improvement Project : Peaceful Playground
The Huntington Public Schools Headline Southdowns School Improvement Project. November 2007 Southdown Primary School has often been a trailblazer, with a tradition of very involved parents who have never had a problem rolling up their collective sleeves and volunteering to work on a school improvement project of one sort or another. This year’s group of [...]
Read More » - St. Cletus School Brings Peace to the Playground at Recess
October 2007 By Tricia Despres The Doings LaGrange – La Grange, IL Ahh, remember those sweet days of your childhood when you spent all day looking forward to recess? Time to get out of the classroom, run around with your friends and swing on the swings. Sweet memories. But if you are like me, recess [...]
Read More » - The New Rules – Playground Monitors Emphasize Behavior Expectations
January 2005 The new rules and behavior expectations. Corvallis Gazette-Times As a second-grader slips down the covered slide at Philomath’s Clemens Primary School on his tummy Thursday morning, school behavior assistant Cheri Stouder blows her whistle. Stouder has been watching a group of first-grade and kindergarten students playing during lunch recess and has already given [...]
Read More » - Twin Peaks Students Play on Peaceful Playgrounds Age Appropriate Games
Age appropriate games,and learning activities that are painted onto existing playground surface. January 2009 By Chuck Barth Marana Weekly News – Tucson, AZ The paved surfaces of Twin Peaks Elementary School’s playground have been painted bright colors and shapes. It’s part of a new way to play that recalls the past while involving current ideas [...]
Read More » - Two Tracy Girl Scouts are Golden
Girl Scout using playground stencils to create school U.S. Map By Malcolm Maclachlan Tracy Press – Tracy, CA May 21, 2005 The stated mission of the Girl Scouts is to build confidence, courage and character while making the world a better place. On May 22, the organization will recognize two Tracy girls who delivered on [...]
Read More » - Urbana Elementary Recognized for Playground Safety Video
January 2009 By Staff Reporter Maryland Community Newspapers – Fredrick, MD Fifth grade Computer Club members at Urbana Elementary School recently were rewarded for creating an informative video on playground safety. Peaceful Playgrounds, a company devoted to reducing conflicts on the school yard, have posted the video on their web site and provided a free Program [...]
Read More » - What is Happening to School Recess?
September 2010 By Blake Taylor, MAED Lawrence Lions Physical Education Lawrence Elementary School – Wichita, KS Take a minute to think back to your childhood school days and, more precisely, the part called school recess. What do you remember about it? I would guess that you recall having fun and playing games that used your [...]
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