The Global Recess Alliance was founded in Spring 2020 by a coalition of researchers, educators, scholars, and children’s health advocates. Our mission endures: to champion recess and breaktime as a right for all children and youth. Recess is not a luxury—it is a developmental necessity and a human right. It is the duty of schools to not only educate—but to care for—the whole child. Let us empower our students with time, space, and freedom to play. Their future depends on it.