As an important part of our new Playworks program, we have created an amazing team of Junior Coaches. These enthusiastic,  hand-picked students recently attended their first training meeting with Coach Heather.

According to Playworks,

“Junior coaches are a mix of 4th through 6th-grade students who participate in regular trainings that focus on teaching valuable skills like leadership, conflict resolution, inclusion and community action, successfully improving their self-esteem, self-advocacy, leadership ability, and desire to improve academically.

We build play into leadership through our junior coach leadership program, which encourages teams of students to work together to learn games, fair play, and positive conflict resolution and to teach these skills and lessons appropriately to their classmates.”