The Global Recess Alliance (GRA) is a newly-formed international collective of health and educational leaders that has provided evidence to suggest a quality recess is an essential component of an educational approach that considers the whole child. Given this, the GRA is urging school administrators to consider recess a critical priority as schools begin to reopen.
Hear from a special panel presentation by some of the founding members of the new Global Recess Alliance.
“Schools Re-Opening? Why It Will Be More Important Than Ever to Create A Play-Full Recess.”
Recorded with a live Zoom audience on June 24, 2020.
As schools reopen, a supportive school recess can guide both students and teachers back from months of interrupted routines, boredom, loneliness, family stress, anxiety and often a lack of physically active and social play. With voices from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia, the Global Recess Alliance panel (detailed below) will highlight practices and policies to ensure that recess provides a setting where inclusive, meaningful safe play occurs.
NOTE: This recorded presentation is included in our 2020 ONLINE Conference on the Value of Play: PLAY FOR ALL content.
Panelists include:
Catherine Ramstetter, Ph.D.
Successful Healthy Children, Cincinnati, OH
Lead author of American Academy of Pediatrics’ Policy on Recess
William V. Massey, Ph.D.
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Lead researcher on the Great Recess Framework
Debbie Rhea, Ph.D.
Professor and The LiiNK Project Director, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, TX
Author of Wrong Turns, Right Moves in Education
Olga Jarrett, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Author of A research-based case for recess: Position paper (2019)
Brendon Hyndman, Ph.D.
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Author of Contemporary School Playground Strategies for Healthy Students
Anna Beresin, Ph.D.
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Author of Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling
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The Play Conference, as it is commonly known, is an annual educational conference presented by the US Play Coalition. The latest research and practices in the field of play are presented at the conference, which brings together play researchers, park and recreation professionals, educators, health scientists, architects, landscape architects, designers, planners, business and community leaders, psychologists, physicians and parents from across the U.S. and beyond. The three day event has been moved ONLINE for 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is our first-ever online Play Conference! Learn more at usplaycoalition.org/playconference2020