1. Healthy Play IS a Solution
Anti-bullying
Character Education
Classroom & Playground Management
Structured Activities Programming

2. Turn off Cell Phones or mute You do not need to take notes
HOUSEKEEPING
Turn off Cell Phones or mute
You do not need to take notes
Crowd Control – “Crooked Elbow”
Discussion opportunities
Play safety- No game is worth getting hurt over

3. Healthy Play IS a Solution
Enhance Social Skills
Reduce Aggression
Increase Self-Esteem/Inner Wealth
Foster Cooperation
Maximize Total Participation
Reinforce Values of Sharing, Honesty, Compassion and Personal Responsibility
Quality PE Curriculum
Emotional Health
Empower a Positive Peer Culture

4. Core HP Principles:
Empathy
Self-Regulation
Problem-Solving

5. Empathy, self-regulation and problem-solving skills are essential for personal and social success.
Children will not perpetrate acts of aggression and violence against each other if they learn to become empathetic and solve their problems peacefully.
Children who can self-regulate put the control of the classroom back into the hands of teachers and the most cooperative students.

6. The Data

7. A five-year longitudinal research project of 29 schools on Healthy Play show that:
 85.5% of teachers who used it in their curriculum times each week reported an behavioral problem reduction average of 70% in acts of aggression, bullying, threats, non-cooperation and teasing.

8. A three-year longitudinal Suspension research project Lincoln Elementary (ECSD)
 Demonstrated a 79.5% drop in suspensions after implementation of the HP program. This reflected a reduction from of 117 down to 24 suspensions.
Regarding sustainability: 3-year reduction of 62.4% in the number of students suspended, a 70.5% decrease in the total number of suspensions and a 72.0% reduction in the number of days students were suspended.
Achieved an API total of 761, a score that approaches the statewide goal of The three year gain of 120 points on the California API is very substantial.

9. Fund for Civility, Respect & Understanding
Healthy Play
Is a Solution
Fund for Civility, Respect & Understanding
Healthy Play: A Peaceful Solution to End Bullying

10. Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding Healthy Play: A Peaceful Solution to End Bullying
Seen increase in
% of teachers
% of reduction in
school cohesion (Y/N)
effectively using HP
behavior problems
Blenman Y
60-69%
50-74%
CSA
80-89%
Road
runner
50-59%
25-49%
Thornydale
90-100%

11. The Healthy Players

12. Healthy Play Principles
Setting Up The Program
Healthy Play Principles
Healthy Play Rules

13. Healthy Play Posters

14. Healthy PLAY Rules
Rule # 1: Whoever is closest to an injured Child stops playing and stays with them until they feel better
Rule # 2: If students have a conflict they argue outside of the game and cannot return until they solve their problems peacefully.

15. Creative Play All Games are Made Up!! Woo hoo!!
Basic Game Types:
Ways To Make Games Better:
Follow the leader
Tag
Keep-away
Capture
Logic puzzles
Accumulation
Keep safety a # 1 priority
Reward teamwork with bonuses
Have multiple “its”
Alter game speed
More bases
Extra balls
Change boundary size
Use the right equipment
Scoring
Allow everyone to offer ideas
Choose players and teams randomly

16. Creative Spirit’s Healthy Play IS a Solution

17. Creative Spirit Healthy Play Spencer Gorin 520-979-7753 www
Creative Spirit Healthy Play Spencer Gorin Training at Estes Elementary 3/14

19. Healthy Play Methodology:
Full HP trainings include full staff trainings and classroom/playground consultations with students and teachers.
Full staff includes the entire range of caring adults who interact with children on campus.
HP teaches empathy, anti-bullying, self regulation and problem-solving skills through repetitive opportunities in a natural developmental learning style that resonates with and motivates students.

20. Children have become passive consumers of entertainment.
Many have lost the ability to:
focus on academics.
get along with each other
organize their thinking
be kind or compassionate
self-regulate their behaviors
express delayed gratification

21. Endangered Species

22. Healthy Play – Creative Play
All Games are Made Up!! Woo hoo!!
Basic Game Types:
Follow the leader
Tag, Keep-away
Capture
Logic puzzles
Accumulation
Way To Make games Better: Keep safety a # 1 priority, Reward teamwork with bonuses, Have multiple ‘its,” alter game speed, more bases, extra balls, change boundary size, the right equipment, scoring, allow everyone to offer ideas, choose players and teams randomly

23. Blob

24. Accumulator

25. Core Healthy Play Philosophy:
The most natural way children learn is through play.
The philosophical HP message of “People are the most important part of the Game” quickly transfers to, “People are the most important part of everything.”
How we play reflects who we are and how we live.
Play reflects our authentic self.

26. The Healthy Play on-site coordinator project for low income schools created a culture of empathy, self-regulation, problem-solving skills among students and staff.