I recently had the pleasure of watching training sessions led by a couple of top coaches in Virginia’s ODP soccer program. I’ve learned a ton and thought I’d share some takeaways that were useful. I’ll start with some observations from a session run by Heather Pederson, who’s a coach on the Virginia ODP staff. The clip…
Yesterday I posted about Paul Bambrick-Santoyo’s new book ‘Get Better Faster’. Today I’d like to add another suggestion for your school leadership bookshelf: Mary Myatt’s outstanding High Challenge, Low Threat. The book is a series of short but insightful meditations on leadership, built around the theme that a great leader should make his or her teachers…
Get Better Faster, by my colleague at Uncommon Schools Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, hit the shelves last week and now that I’ve had a chance to read it, I want to take a moment to recommend it highly. It’s a book for leaders (at various levels of school organizations) but it focuses on one key task: developing and…
My daughter played in a tournament with her soccer club this past weekend. The experience was a case study in what happens when coaches don’t understand their responsibility as teachers. Sadly, this is not uncommon and is important for reasons that I will discuss at the end of this post. First the details: My daughter is…
Even before Iceland took the Euros by storm, miraculously qualifying from group F (above Portugal and Austria), and then stunning England yesterday in the round of 16, they were the story of the tournament. With a population of 330,000 or roughly that of Bakersfield, California, their qualification was considered a minor miracle. This caused journalist Jonathan…