For the 2024-2025 school year, Dr. Debbie Rhea received a BCBS-TX Blue Impact Grant to fund a lite version of LiiNK in 10 South Texas schools from one school district. The purpose of this project was to train teachers and administrators on recess, defined as unstructured outdoor play, and why having this type of recess more often in the day is important for adults and children, then introduce loose-parts play equipment to the children for one of their recesses daily, followed by collecting some data about how well this model works. All 10 schools have been allowing the children to play with the loose parts since launching a 2nd recess in February. This week, Dr. Rhea and LiiNK’s Program Manager, Connor Lazenby, travelled to these 10 schools to observe the grant in action and talk with the teachers, principals, and administrators of these schools. The positive feedback we received and the incredibly valuable play we observed was too good not to share! Listen as Dr. Rhea and Connor share stories from this impactful trip, and discuss just how simple and gratifying it can be for other schools to make these changes too.

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