Eagle View Students are in for a Nice Surprise on School Playground

September 2009 By Jodie Tweed Brainerd Dispatch - Brainerd, MA Deanne Trottier, an Eagle View second-grade teacher and playground committee member, spray painted colorful markings on a play space in front of the Breezy Point elementary school Friday. Teachers and parents volunteered their time Thursday and Friday to provide new colorful play areas for [...]

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Peaceful Playgrounds Create Colorful Backdrop for Engaging Physical Activities with PEP Grant

IL Schools Add Colorful Markings  to 8 Playgrounds with Playground Grant Funding  September 2009 By Jeb Chicago Tribune - Highland Park, IL North Shore School District physical education teachers Josh Funke (far left) and Kevin Shanahan (far right) instructs a group of elementary school children on one of the playground games, while Superintendent [...]

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Eagle View boasts Unstructured Recess with Peaceful Playgrounds

Unstructured Recess Success Based on Enriching Environment  September 2009 By Katie Anderson Pine River Journal - Pine River, MN One of the parking lots will provide unstructured recess activities at Eagle View Elementary School. The parking lot where school buses drop off and pick up students will now be used for Eagle View's  unstructured recess [...]

Appleton School Solves Recess Conflict

Peaceful Playgrounds Eliminating Recess Conflicts September 2009[jwplayer mediaid="859"] By Ryan Dietz WLUK-TV - Appleton, WI Recess used to be just sliding and swinging at Johnston Elementary School in Appleton but overtime recess conflict grew. Now a program to get more kids involved has them adding hopscotch, four-square, and jump rope to the mix. "There's like [...]

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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 [...]

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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' [...]

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Program Levels Playground Playing Field with Elementary School Recess Games

 New Recess Games Solve Conflicts 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 for recess games, [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

School Bell: Time to Play Recess Games

August 2010 By Trine Gallegos Contra Costa Times - Antioch, CA Peaceful Playgrounds expands the playing area with vibrant, strategically spaced markings creating a cheerful amusement-park look. 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 [...]

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What is Happening to School Recess?

September 2010 By Blake Taylor, MAED Lawrence Lions Physical Education Lawrence Elementary School - Wichita, KS Students at Lawrence Elementary School recess. 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 [...]

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 with a new kind of playground. What this new year will bring is anyone’s guess, but teachers and staff at South Elementary Early Learning [...]

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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 [...]

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, [...]

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