2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
6/21/2017 | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Play with a Purpose: Leveraging Recess to Support SWPBIS and Maximize Student Learning | Silver Creek
Play with a Purpose: Leveraging Recess to Support SWPBIS and Maximize Student Learning
Does your school experience increases in discipline behaviors during and immediately following recess? Do your socially awkward students find recess stressful rather than refreshing? Would you like your students to return from recess excited and ready to learn? Due to the unstructured nature of recess time, as well as under-trained recess staff, it can be difficult to introduce positive supports at recess, yet recess has broad repercussions on student behavior. We will present structures and scaffolds to support positive behavior on the playground and how recess should be a positive building block for overall school climate. Our presentation is grounded in the fact that students learn better when they are able successfully navigate their social environments and maximize blood flow to their brains allowing optimal student learning.
- Participants will Identify the importance of a variety of easily implemented positive behavior supports at recess. Including making the playground physically and emotionally safe, providing proactive supervision, and an opportunity to learn and generalize social skills.
- Participants will gain familiarity with the concept of recess teams, and be able to identify the likely members of their own school’s recess team.
- Participants will learn about the importance of providing transitions onto the playground and the vital importance of having well planned and executed transitions back to the classroom.
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Presenters/Authors
Ben Cromwell
(), Playworks UT, bcromwell@playworks.org;
Ben Cromwell is is a talented individual with a diverse background. He has worked as an educator for over fifteen years in a number of settings including the island nation of Kirbati where he was a Peace Corps volunteer. Ben holds a master's degree in Enviromental Humanaties from the University of Utah. While studying there, he fell in love with the Salt Lake Valley, where he lives with his wife and two kids.
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Allan Whitmore
(), Wastach School District, ALLAN.WHITMORE@wasatch.edu;
Allan Whitmore is a counselor in Wasatch School District at Midway Elementary. He previously has worked for Canyons School District as a teacher specialist focusing on prevention efforts. He is passionate about setting us school-wide PBIS systems and effectively teaching social skills. He is trained as a school counselor and a recreational therapist. Previous positions include working for Wasatch County School District and Primary Children’s Medical Center. He live with his wife and four sons in the beautiful Kamas Valley.
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