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Resourceful Play with Minimal Equipment

Posted February 11, 2025.

Imagine a rainy day when outdoor recess is canceled or a play area with no traditional play equipment in sight. Even in these moments, kids, with the help of adults,…

https://www.playworks.org/pacific-northwest/2025/02/11/resourceful-play-with-minimal-equipment/

Resourceful Play with Minimal Equipment

Posted February 11, 2025.

Imagine a rainy day when outdoor recess is canceled or a play area with no traditional play equipment in sight. Even in these moments, kids, with the help of adults,…

https://www.playworks.org/wisconsin/2025/02/11/resourceful-play-with-minimal-equipment/

Meet AmeriCorps Coach Mel

Posted March 29, 2018.

Meet our rockstar coach, Melanie! Melanie, or Coach Mel, to her students, is spending her year of service at Chappell Elementary School, a longtime partner of Playworks Illinois. Coach Mel is…

https://www.playworks.org/illinois/2018/03/29/meet-americorps-coach-mel/

Coach Nick Makes Excellent Happen

Posted May 14, 2015.

Coach Nick is a first year Playworks AmeriCorps member at the Orchard Gardens K-8 School in Roxbury. Over the course of the school year, Coach Nick has proven to be…

https://www.playworks.org/new-england/2015/05/14/coach-nick-makes-excellent-happen/

Olympic-Sized Junior Coach Retreat for Santa Ana

Posted February 22, 2017.

  On February 22, 2017, over 160 Junior Coaches in 11 Santa Ana Unified Playworks partner schools came together at the Long Beach City College for their Leadership Retreat. The…

https://www.playworks.org/southern-california/2017/02/22/olympic-sized-junior-coach-retreat-for-santa-ana/

Volleyball season draws to thrilling close

Posted April 21, 2014.

Playworks’co-ed volleyball leagues came to a close after five awesome weeks where fourth and fifth grade players bumped it, set it, spiked it—because that’s the way they like it!  Cheers rang out…

https://www.playworks.org/pacific-northwest/2014/04/21/volleyball-season-draws-to-thrilling-close-2/

Red Sox Foundation Visits the P.J. Kennedy School

Posted December 16, 2022.

The Red Sox Foundation visited the Patrick J. Kennedy School on December 1 during the final Play Ball event of its Reviving Baseball and Softball in Inner Cities seasonal youth…

https://eastietimes.com/2022/12/14/red-sox-foundation-visits-the-p-j-kennedy-school/

Playworks Joins Seattle’s Big Day of Play

Posted September 2, 2025.

Play brings people together, and Seattle’s Big Day of Play was proof. We were honored to join Seattle Parks and Recreation as a Supporting Sponsor of the 2025 Big Day…

https://www.playworks.org/pacific-northwest/2025/09/02/playworks-joins-seattles-big-day-of-play/

Meet Coach MJ

Posted March 25, 2015.

Coach MJ is a proud Minnesota native, born and bred in South Minneapolis. Before joining the Playworks family for the start of the 2013-14 school year, Coach MJ was working with the YMCA.  For the past…

https://www.playworks.org/minnesota/2015/03/25/meet-coach-mj/

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