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Community Education has purchased a recess curriculum that will impact every elementary school student, in every school, every day. Concord Elementary is a pilot school.
Playworks is used by urban schools with limited green space, limited facilities, limited equipment, grave safety issues, and high poverty rates with success. Many of these schools have cut recess; Playworks is a way to bring it back. We have recess. We have green space, We have equipment. Playworks is the WRONG program for us. Playworks was brought in to solve a staffing solution - not as the best option for the kids.
Recess is the only scheduled 25 minutes in the school day for our kids to 'own' their independence. It is a time to test skills they already have and are still developing - how to play, how to deal with conflict, how to be inclusive - in a safe environment with adults offering intervention when necessary. With Playworks, the supervisors are trained to instruct, make rules, intervene early, make teams, teach the kids games many already know, and create a controlled, very intentional environment.
To enhance recess for every student at Concord Elementary we say:
- Remove the Playworks model from our school.
- Bring back the FULL 25 minutes of true free play.
- Bring back the use of ALL of our play spaces.
- Let additional staff engage in but not direct the play.
- Let the kids invent their own games.
- Together as a school, let us figure out ways to make Concord an inclusive atmosphere all day and at recess. Not by using a "Playworks Playbook" that isn't the right fit for our school and doesn't meet the needs of our school population.
We, the undersigned believe the new pilot recess curriculum Playworks is a bad fit for Concord Elementary School.
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Updates
September 7, 2015
The momentum behind this push to reclaim our children's freedom is undeniable. Post this link on Facebook and tag your school board representative today to keep this pressure on the administration.
Reached 100 supporters
September 7, 2015
77 Comments
This is about the school district implementing a program that will affect thousands of our Edina kids without any input from not only parents but our teachers as well. It's a discussion based on facts and what recess is all about.
This new structured program seems to be a bad fit for our school. Miles has been very sad with the change and he wants to just get out there and have fun!
Let the kids play! My child came home saying he couldn't play soccer? Why wouldn't you let a kid play soccer! There is no evidence that our school needs this. Why are we fixing what isn't broken.
I want my children to learn from unstructured play, possible exclusion and conflict resolution. This will not happen in controlled environments. It is setting them up for too sheltered of a viewpoint. It is ridiculous for Edina schools.
I cannot fathom why this program was approved. Concord already has assigned lunch tables, assigned classroom seating, structure, structure, structure. This program will be a disservice to the Concord students. They need to learn all the skills mentioned in the petition--especially when they move to on middle school.
I think it is clear that lee wolf blum does not care about the well being of her children or ours for that matter. I was shocked to hear her on the news pushing her BLOG!?! She likes to listen to herself talk and I really wonder if this whole petition is just a blog entry for her and not something she takes seriously. I am embarrassed as an Edina community member at this blog and the behavior of many of these comments. Bullying is not a "right of passage" and just because you were bullied as a child does not mean that this generation needs to be, we have an opportunity to make the worst part of the day for the school into one of the best parts of the day....stop being the helicopter parents and let the school try something new for longer than a week.
Do the teachers ask parents about new math books that they want to use? NO they do not. You trust that the teachers and principals have researched it and are comfortable with the book. Same thing applies here, everyone needs to relax a little on this issue. The people that started this have a known track record of complaining about everything.....
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Community Education has purchased a recess curriculum that will impact every elementary school student, in every school, every day. Concord Elementary is a pilot school.
Playworks is used by urban schools with limited green space, limited facilities, limited equipment, grave safety issues, and high poverty rates with success. Many of these schools have cut recess; Playworks is a way to bring it back. We have recess. We have green space, We have equipment. Playworks is the WRONG program for us. Playworks was brought in to solve a staffing solution - not as the best option for the kids.
Recess is the only scheduled 25 minutes in the school day for our kids to 'own' their independence. It is a time to test skills they already have and are still developing - how to play, how to deal with conflict, how to be inclusive - in a safe environment with adults offering intervention when necessary. With Playworks, the supervisors are trained to instruct, make rules, intervene early, make teams, teach the kids games many already know, and create a controlled, very intentional environment.
To enhance recess for every student at Concord Elementary we say:
- Remove the Playworks model from our school.
- Bring back the FULL 25 minutes of true free play.
- Bring back the use of ALL of our play spaces.
- Let additional staff engage in but not direct the play.
- Let the kids invent their own games.
- Together as a school, let us figure out ways to make Concord an inclusive atmosphere all day and at recess. Not by using a "Playworks Playbook" that isn't the right fit for our school and doesn't meet the needs of our school population.
We, the undersigned believe the new pilot recess curriculum Playworks is a bad fit for Concord Elementary School.
Updates
September 7, 2015
The momentum behind this push to reclaim our children's freedom is undeniable. Post this link on Facebook and tag your school board representative today to keep this pressure on the administration.
Reached 100 supporters
September 7, 2015
77 Comments
I am fairly certain a contract is straightforward when costs are outlined. Regardless of which line item it falls under in a large budget. How about you give us an estimate. All the information we could find says $23,500 per school to upwards of $65,000 per school. So multiply that by 6....
This is about the school district implementing a program that will affect thousands of our Edina kids without any input from not only parents but our teachers as well. It's a discussion based on facts and what recess is all about.
This new structured program seems to be a bad fit for our school. Miles has been very sad with the change and he wants to just get out there and have fun!
Let the kids play! My child came home saying he couldn't play soccer? Why wouldn't you let a kid play soccer! There is no evidence that our school needs this. Why are we fixing what isn't broken.
I want my children to learn from unstructured play, possible exclusion and conflict resolution. This will not happen in controlled environments. It is setting them up for too sheltered of a viewpoint. It is ridiculous for Edina schools.
I cannot fathom why this program was approved. Concord already has assigned lunch tables, assigned classroom seating, structure, structure, structure. This program will be a disservice to the Concord students. They need to learn all the skills mentioned in the petition--especially when they move to on middle school.
I think it is clear that lee wolf blum does not care about the well being of her children or ours for that matter. I was shocked to hear her on the news pushing her BLOG!?! She likes to listen to herself talk and I really wonder if this whole petition is just a blog entry for her and not something she takes seriously. I am embarrassed as an Edina community member at this blog and the behavior of many of these comments. Bullying is not a "right of passage" and just because you were bullied as a child does not mean that this generation needs to be, we have an opportunity to make the worst part of the day for the school into one of the best parts of the day....stop being the helicopter parents and let the school try something new for longer than a week.
Do the teachers ask parents about new math books that they want to use? NO they do not. You trust that the teachers and principals have researched it and are comfortable with the book. Same thing applies here, everyone needs to relax a little on this issue. The people that started this have a known track record of complaining about everything.....
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I am fairly certain a contract is straightforward when costs are outlined. Regardless of which line item it falls under in a large budget. How about you give us an estimate. All the information we could find says $23,500 per school to upwards of $65,000 per school. So multiply that by 6....