According to Coach Amber, an AmeriCorps member and Playworks program coordinator at the Lee Academy Pilot School in Dorchester, "every day is a...
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From The Field
Playworks served with Habitat For Humanity on the National Day of Service to help repaint houses and build a fence around an East Oakland low-...
South Los Angeles Report
05/28/2010
Three years ago, Emma Cueva, a fourth-grade teacher at W. Claude Hudnall Elementary School, noticed students walking around slowly at recess or roaming the playground with no destination. Some even started fights.
“I had a lot of students with issues at home, especially in the areas of conflict resolution,” Cueva said.
Now, the students are different. Playworks, a nonprofit organization, helped the students become more energetic and learn to solve problems that might emerge during a playground game. Read more
