{"id":2164,"date":"2019-02-27T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2019-03-06T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:25:40","slug":"always-reaching-higher-coach-hoops-at-52nd-street-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/2019\/02\/27\/always-reaching-higher-coach-hoops-at-52nd-street-elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Reaching Higher: Coach Hoops at 52nd Street Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not every day that a Playworks #AmeriCorps Coach is honored by the Los Angeles Lakers, complete with a basketball clinic hosted by legendary forward A.C. Green. Then again, being treated to a center court awards ceremony at a Lakers game isn\u2019t something a Playworks Coach experiences every day, either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-AC-Green.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2165 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-AC-Green.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-AC-Green.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-AC-Green-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-AC-Green-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-AC-Green-250x333.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s her <em>everyday <\/em>actions on the playground that earned Skai Thompson these honors. Since becoming a Playworks Coach in December 2017, Skai, known as Coach Hoops, has had an outsized impact on her school\u2019s culture and the kids she works with.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Hoops first started at LAUSD\u2019s 60<sup>th<\/sup> Street Elementary and then transferred to 52<sup>nd<\/sup> Street Elementary this school year. Besides helping transform recess at the schools, she coached an all-girls basketball league last fall, is coaching a co-ed soccer league this spring, and is actively mentoring 18 Junior Coaches.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2166\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-Laker-Girls-295x295.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Hoops celebrates on center court with the Laker Girls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCoach Hoops is a model for both adults and children of kindness, of compassion, of patience, of respect, of integrity,\u201d says Emily Barbee, assistant principal for 52<sup>nd<\/sup> Street Elementary. \u201cOur staff watches her and sees the way she interacts with kids, and kids watch her, and she walks the walk in terms of embodying some of the core values that Playworks tries to promote. I think they\u2019re already intrinsic parts of who she is as a person. She\u2019s a model of how we should treat each other as humans. She has just been a tremendous asset to our school community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach Hoops didn\u2019t always have it easy growing up, which allows her to empathize with many of the children at 52<sup>nd<\/sup> Street Elementary, an under-resourced school where 100 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced lunch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandmother raised me and my little brother, so that allows me to relate to the children on a deeper level because a lot of the kids at my school don\u2019t live with their biological parents. They have guardians rather than mom and dad. I\u2019ve shared with a couple of them that I was in foster care because a lot of the students in my school are in the system, and I like to be that role model that this is not forever. Things do get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2170\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-girls-bball-pose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-girls-bball-pose.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-girls-bball-pose.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-girls-bball-pose-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-girls-bball-pose-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-girls-bball-pose-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-girls-bball-pose-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-girls-bball-pose-444x333.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Hoops mentors Junior Coaches on and off the playground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So what exactly is it about Coach Hoops that makes her so special? After all, she must be doing an awful lot right for both the school culture and discipline issues to have improved so dramatically at 52<sup>nd<\/sup> Street Elementary, Playworks\u2019 Hall of Fame school partner of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pride myself on not yelling at the kids and being calm with the more challenging children,\u201d she says. \u201cI talk with them with as much respect as I would want from them. And then when they do get upset and start to be a little disrespectful, I just remind them, \u2018Have I ever disrespected you? I\u2019m your friend, and I would never treat you that way.\u2019 And I\u2019ve found that to work with almost all of them. And if it doesn\u2019t work right away, they come back and talk to me and say, \u2018I\u2019m sorry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parent and recess team member Paola Armienta appreciates Coach Hoops\u2019 approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe always has a smile on her face. I\u2019m learning from her how to manage different kids with different attitudes. The whole program helps us control our kids in a safe way. We\u2019re not yelling at them, we\u2019re not being rude, we\u2019re just making sure that everyone is playing together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly given her nickname, Coach Hoops was a standout basketball player in high school and college. She played on an athletic scholarship at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith her junior and senior year, but the experience wasn\u2019t always positive. When she was first hired at Playworks, she didn\u2019t realize coaching basketball would be part of the job. Now she expects to earn a master\u2019s degree in coaching and exercise science from Concordia University in December.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2168\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-cheering-team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-cheering-team.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-cheering-team.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-cheering-team-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-cheering-team-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-cheering-team-771x600.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Coach-Hoops-cheering-team-428x333.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Hoops cheers on her team. Photo by Jonathan Morales.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAfter a league night, I remember sharing that I never thought basketball could be fun again for me. I had stepped away because I\u2019d experienced so much trauma with basketball. And then I was able to step in and create safe spaces for girls to be encouraged and to be respected because they all deserve dignity, all children. I thought it was powerful to be able to do that because I never thought I\u2019d be coaching basketball. And now I\u2019m going to school for coaching. It\u2019s funny how the universe works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her piece of the universe, Coach Hoops is making a big difference at her school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a Playworks Coach has really given me the opportunity to make an impact on a larger level than I thought I could. Finding Playworks, or Playworks finding me, was the best thing to happen because I\u2019ve been able to just positively change all my students\u2019 lives. When they come to school, they know that they\u2019re going to get a smile and a high five or that they\u2019re protected\u2014that no matter who it is, I will stand up for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2172\" style=\"width: 2880px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-high-fives2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2172 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-high-fives2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-high-fives2.jpg 2880w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-high-fives2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-high-fives2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-high-fives2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-high-fives2-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Skai-high-fives2-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2880px) 100vw, 2880px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Hoops is always ready with smiles and high fives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometimes, it\u2019s the smallest things that bring the most satisfaction. She may have had a once-in-a-lifetime night at the Lakers, but Coach Hoops is rewarded every day by what she experiences on the playground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning I had CGT (classroom game time) with a 2nd-grade class and after school, I saw them playing the exact same game I taught them. It\u2019s just awesome to see my impact that quickly, to be able to look out on the yard and see exactly what I taught.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not every day that a Playworks #AmeriCorps Coach is honored by the Los Angeles Lakers, complete with a basketball clinic hosted by legendary forward A.C. Green. 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