Collect All 3 Badges
to Earn Your Certificate of Completion!

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Get your SparkPlay Guided Learning certificate of completion by completing short courses to earn all 3 badges!

 Discover Group Management

7 courses | 2 hours
  • Manage Groups with Ease
  • Build Rapport with Your Group
  • Leverage Attention Getters & Signals
  • Create Smooth Transitions through Play
  • Frame Playtime with Openings & Closings
  • Encourage Growth with Rules & Consequences
  • Implement Group Management Strategies at Playtime

 Explore Game Facilitation 

6 courses | 1.5 hours
  • Become a Game Facilitation Superstar
  • Lead a Playworks Core Game
  • Inspire Teamwork with Cooperative Games
  • Spark Connection with Icebreaker Games
  • Reset the Focus with Brain Breaks
  • Get Moving with Tag

Learn Play Systems

5 courses | 1.5 hours
  • Unlock the Power of Play Systems
  • Initiate Play with Equipment Systems
  • Enrich Play with Visual Systems
  • Lead Play with Adult Roles
  • Implement Effective Play Systems

Program Paths

 Foundations 

Youth Leadership

Collect All 3 Badges to Earn Your Certificate of Completion!

Get your SparkPlay Foundations certificate by completing short courses to earn all 3 badges!

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Make group management your superpower!

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  • Learn play-based strategies for managing kids' behavior in the classroom and beyond

  • Develop skills for encouraging positive behavior through rules and consequences

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Make games your most effective tool!

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  • Learn to choose games that align with desired outcomes

  • Develop skills for quick & effective game facilitation

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Take a systematic approach to play!

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  •  Learn to create safe and healthy play through equipment systems, visual systems, and adult roles

  • Develop skills to support kids in initiating and sustaining their own safe and healthy play

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Discover Group Management

  • 2 hours
  • 7 courses
  • Manage Groups with Ease
  • Build Rapport with Your Group
  • Leverage Attention Getters & Signals
  • Create Smooth Transitions through Play
  • Frame Playtime with Openings & Closings
  • Encourage Growth with Rules & Consequences
  • Implement Group Management Strategies at Playtime
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Explore Game Facilitation

  • 1.5 hours
  • 6 courses
  • Become a Game Facilitation Superstar
  • Lead a Playworks Core Game
  • Inspire Teamwork with Cooperative Games
  • Spark Connection with Icebreaker Games
  • Reset the Focus with Brain Breaks
  • Get Moving with Tag
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Learn Play Systems

  • 1.5 hours
  • 5 courses
  • Unlock the Power of Play Systems
  • Initiate Play with Equipment Systems
  • Enrich Play with Visual Systems
  • Lead Play with Adult Roles
  • Implement Effective Play Systems
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Make an impact with Youth Leadership!

  • Learn how to nurture student leaders while supporting safe and healthy recess practices.


  • Develop the strategies, best practices and tools to design, implement and sustain an impactful youth leader program.

Collect Your Badge to Earn Your Certificate of Completion!

Get your SparkPlay Youth Leadership certificate by completing five courses to earn your badge!

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Discover Youth Leadership

  • 1.5 hours
  • 5 courses
  • 1. Introduction to Youth Leadership
  • 2. Running a Successful Youth Leadership Program
  • 3. Training Youth Leaders
  • 4. Leadership During Playtime
  • 5. Recruiting Youth Leaders