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		<title>Responding to the Newtown Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/12/17/responding-to-the-newtown-tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing from Haiti, but my heavy heart is back in New England. I have been thinking about you and all of those in our Playmaker community who are heading back to work this morning in the wake of Friday&#8217;s heartbreaking and incomprehensible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Cod Playmaker Spreading Ripples of Joy</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/10/23/cape-cod-playmaker-spreading-ripples-of-joy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Laughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Teachers start off gung-ho and then they get bogged down by all the requirements they have to fill and all of the things they have to remember to complete,” says Terri Rivera, a Playmaker and 20-year preschool teacher at The Barnstable Early Learning Center on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. “Before they know it, all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super-Sized Hugs Keep Playmakers Energized</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/08/07/super-sized-hugs-keep-playmakers-energized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lillian Yaqub</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I am the most natural when I work with kids. I really feel like I can express myself to them. They don’t apologize for being who they are, and they don’t expect you to apologize for who you are either,” says Whitney Dubois, a Playmaker from Cambridge, MA, and co-winner of the 4th annual Jessie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roots and Wings</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/07/19/roots-and-wings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lillian Yaqub</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liz Cincotta, a child life specialist from Pittsburg, PA, recently participated in our two-day Child Life Playmaker Certification Training in Boston.  A few days later, she sent the following reflection on her experience to our training staff.  Her letter provides proof that play does not only benefit the children in the care of frontline child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playmakers Help Heal Japan’s Children</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/06/13/playmakers-help-heal-japan%e2%80%99s-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lillian Yaqub</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the below guest blog about Steve&#8217;s recent trip to Japan. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- My name is Shuei Kozu and I am a licensed Social Worker in the Neurology department of Children’s Hospital in Boston. I recently traveled to Japan with Steve Gross, founder and Chief Playmaker of the Life is good Playmakers to assist in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playmaker Dwayne Nunez Receives New England Teaching Award</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/03/16/playmaker-dwayne-nunez-receives-new-england-teaching-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rolland Janairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news has reached us that one of our very own Playmakers – Dwayne Nunez – has been awarded the 2012 Emerging Professional Award by Men Teach of New England! This award honors male teachers in the early education field in New England who are making valuable contributions in their classrooms and in their communities. Dwayne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love is in the Air.</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/03/12/love-is-in-the-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lillian Yaqub</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Washington DC Playmaker Cathy Morrison. Thanks to the Playmakers, I have fallen in love all over again! This time last year, I found myself in quite a rut and stuck in the mud. Every morning,  I would go into the classroom and greet the little ones who had been entrusted to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joyful Partnership Benefits Boston’s Schoolchildren</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/03/06/joyful-partnership-benefits-boston%e2%80%99s-schoolchildren/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/03/06/joyful-partnership-benefits-boston%e2%80%99s-schoolchildren/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Saul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“One person can make a difference and every person should try,” said President Kennedy. Jen Medeiros-Crabbe provides us with a sparkling example. Jen, a school psychologist in the Boston Public School (BPS) system, is the first critical link in a strong, lengthening chain created between the Life is good Playmakers and the BPS’s Behavioral Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shall we skip?</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2012/01/25/shall-we-skip-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a beautiful essay written by Antonia Nichols that captures the true essence of what the Playmaker spirit is all about. Antonia is a senior in high school who dedicates much of her life to helping the most vulnerable among us. Her attitude of optimism makes her one special young woman Shall we skip? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Journey is the Destination</title>
		<link>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2011/12/30/the-journey-is-the-destination/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.playmakers.lifeisgood.com/2011/12/30/the-journey-is-the-destination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rolland Janairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early October, I decided to listen to my Playfulness Plan and go on a &#8220;little&#8221; vacation with my wife, Dianne. We headed over to Tanzania to try and tackle a challenge that has been on our minds the past few years &#8211; to do our best to hike up Mount Kilimanjaro. At 5,895m (about [...]]]></description>
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