UPS has donated $18,000 to support the Playworks initiative at Lady Liberty Charter School in Newark, NJ, helping Greater Newark/Greater New York to close 2012 with a roar! The…
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It was the biggest event thus far for Playworks Southern California! It’s our annual Junior Coach Conference. Four hundred fifth grade leaders united at South Coast City Soccer, in which…
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Students at Montpelier High School take 15 minutes each afternoon to unplug and unwind.
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Coach Sam is a Playworks AmeriCorps Coach at the Tobin K–8 School in Roxbury. Sam is a first-year Coach at a school that has been a Playworks partner for more…
https://www.playworks.org/new-england/2019/04/10/coach-sam-runs-a-strong-program-at-the-tobin/>
A whistle blast froze students into a muscleman pose as they awaited further instruction. “If you are ready to have some fun today, I want you to say ‘Oh yeah,'”…
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Journal of Education Psychology finds important link between bullying and dropout rate
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As a child, I lived for the two months each year I spent at a sleepaway sports camp in the Catskill Mountains. I loved everything about camp: the people from…
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