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Sports4Kids
Headquarters: Oakland, CA | Founded: 1996 | www.sports4kids.org
Sports4Kids demonstrates that despite tight budgets and an increasing burden on public education to “do it all,” it is possible to leverage the power of play for children’s health and well-being. Sports4Kids works in 115 low-income public schools to bring play back to the daily lives of nearly 50,000 students. Sports4Kids recruits and trains enthusiastic adults to act as a “nexus of play” at schools, working full-time and in partnership with classroom teachers, teaching kids collaborative play skills, building teacher capacity to transform kids’ ability to learn and develop, organizing recess time, and influencing overall school culture.
Results
- After two years, Sports4Kids programming has increased pass rates on the California Physical Fitness Test from 40 percent to 68 percent.
- Sports4Kids achieves a greater than 50 percent increase in the number of minutes of physical activity delivered by teachers, a significant decrease in playground violence, and a significant increase in the use of conflict resolution skills.
Stories
Social Entrepreneur
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Jill Vialet |
