Coach Ellen Makes Excellent Happen

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Coach Ellen is a program coordinator who fully embraces the mission and values of Playworks. Now in her second year with Playworks Massachusetts, she has returned to the Phineas Bates Elementary School in Roslindale. Coach Ellen has prided herself in creating an amazing Junior Coach program at her school during the past two years. All Junior Coaches are present at recess, helping lead attention getters at the beginning of recess, leading games during recess and the cheer at the end of recess. Her dedication and hard work towards the Junior Coach Leadership Academy at her school has allowed her Junior Coaches to excel in and out of the classroom.

This month, Coach Ellen made excellent happen by leading the initiative to address the behavior among students on the school bus. In the first weeks of school, behavior was a problem on the bus and students were getting in disagreements. Coach Ellen spearheaded the solution, coming up with cooperative games for all students to play on the school bus. In her free time, she taught bus monitors and teachers the cooperative games to play with the students. Now, instead of students misbehaving on the schools bus, they are playing games with one another and having fun. This type of creativite appproach Coach Ellen has shown is helping students start and end the school day on a positive note, giving them the opportunity to be prepared and ready to learn in the classroom.

Coach Ellen continues to make excellent happen with her incredible Class Game Times. During these individual class sessions, she is making it possible for students to learn essential skills relative to the classroom topic for the day. Not only is Coach Ellen making excellent happen at her school, she is also becoming a wonderful mentor to first year coaches in different Playworks schools across Massachusetts. Coach Ellen is committed to the Playworks Massachusetts movement. With her positive attitude and amazing personality, we are confident that Coach Ellen will continue to make excellent happen throughout Massachusetts.

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students jump-roping

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Rock Paper Scissors Tournament 2023 ›

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