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Playworks paired with Mathematica Policy Research and Stanford University to conduct a study on optimized recess. Key findings include:

• 43% less bullying
• Students felt 20% safer
• 37% more engagement in vigorous physical activity

"Natural environments including green spaces provide children with ways of inciting engagement, risk-taking, discovery, creativity, mastery and control, strengthening sense of self, inspiring basic emptional states including a sense of wonder, and enhancing psychological restoration."

—Spanish researchers in a 2015 study

"Think of play like an innovation lab where tomorrow's civilization is being actively designed."

—Jordan Shapiro