Pays Playworks up to $65,000 for a full-time recess and game coach at Bridges Academy @Melrose

Playworks will place a full-time coach at Bridges Academy @Melrose to lead recess and class game time, teaching cooperation, fairness and conflict resolution, and to run a Junior Coaches student leadership squad. The coach will also help teachers build their skills in teaching physical education. The agreement runs from August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026.

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Vendor / partner: Playworks · Oakland, CA
Action: New agreement
Category: Classroom & academic programs
Term: Aug 1, 2025 – Jul 31, 2026
This vote: $65,000
Schools: Bridges Academy @Melrose
Funding: CCSPP Implementation Grant
Resource / site: 6332-178
Vendor no.: 009318
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 25-1998 · agenda O.-40
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Sep 10, 2025

Official text

Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2025-2026 by and between the District and Playworks, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide a full-time on-site coach to work with students during recess and class game time to teach students about cooperative play, turn-taking, fairness, direction-following, conflict resolution, and creative play; during recess lead games and be available for student consultation to help mediate conflicts; work with teachers during class game time in order to build the classroom teachers' skills in teaching physical education and promote community-building; run the Junior Coaches squad in which students will be taught to support others, gain leadership skills, and take on community responsibility by being helpers at recess time at Bridges Academy @Melrose, for the period of August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $65,000.00.

History

Sep 10, 2025 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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