According to Coach Amber, an AmeriCorps member and Playworks program coordinator at the Lee Academy Pilot School in Dorchester, "every day is a...
Playworks sets up its 'recess coaches' program in Portland
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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-...
Oregonlive.com
04/27/2010
An Omamas reader recently alerted us to a New York Times article on “recess coaches” who help kids structure their recess time positively, without bullying or other conflict. The reader, a dad, wondered if there was anything similar in Oregon.
I put the question out on Twitter and my friends at EnviroMom sent back this Portland Public Schools' announcement about Playworks' new program in the district: www.pps.k12.or.us/news/2774.htm
To learn more, I talked with Cindy Wilson of Playworks, founded in 1996 and based in Oakland, Calif. ....
