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November 6, 2013
Involving your athletes in team discipline
Struggling with some discipline issues on your team? Seems like every team has at least a couple of athletes who love to push the envelope when it comes to team rules. Some athletes are notoriously late, others have too “active” of a social li...
November 6, 2013
Preparing Your Underdogs for the Postseason
Find yourself with an underdog team as you prepare for the postseason? Let’s take a moment to assess your situation in terms of disadvantages of and advantages.Disadvantages: Insufficient talent; pessimistic players and parents; likely playing ...
November 6, 2013
Road warriors: How to win more games away from home
One of the true tests of a successful team is the ability to win on the road. While several teams seem to play well at home, for some reason winning on the road tends to be an overly complicated task. Too many teams simply accept that winning on the ...
November 6, 2013
Eight sure-fire strategies for building a thriving program
Transforming a declining or problematic program into a rising program is definitely a challenge. There will be many weeks when it feels like you are taking two steps forward and sometimes just as many backward as the negative gravity of the situation...
October 30, 2013
Milwaukee school sets high marks for academic, athletic excellence
[caption id="attachment_26067" align="aligncenter" width="489"] Photos courtesy of University School of Milwaukee.[/caption] Rick Johns managed to win just one game during his first year as a football coach at a small school in eastern Minnesota. ...
October 16, 2013
Arrowhead High School Special Report (Home)
Arrowhead High School Special Report Coach And Athletic Director's entire September 2012 issue is dedicated to our first-ever, head-to-toe coverage of the inner workings of one of America's most-envied public high-school athletic programs—Arrowh...
October 2, 2013
Building Trust With Support and Understanding
Sponsored By: Building Trust With Support and Understanding The Overlake School (Redmond, Wash.) head girls lacrosse coach Sue Haviland says that being a teacher and coach allows her (and her co-workers) to be more in-touch with student-ath...
October 2, 2013
The Time to Make Changes in Your Program
Sponsored By: The Time to Make Changes in Your Program Vince Mancuso, head baseball coach at Arrowhead High School (Hartland, Wis.), talks about the process of implementing changes into the baseball program. It's best to wait for the offse...
October 2, 2013
Opinion: High school drug testing a solution without a problem
We naturally confront problems in society with solutions, but occasionally we’re led to believe there's a problem where one doesn’t exist. The fight against performance enhancing drugs in our nation's high schools is a prime example. For at le...
September 5, 2013
Rockford’s football team maintains winning culture
Rockford High School football coach Ralph Munger isn't much of a numbers guy. He has trouble recalling the number of years he has led the varsity program and how many championships it has won along the way. It's likely Munger is only being mod...
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Many school emergency plans in operation today are put in place with the understanding that the school day is in session and that all school-certificated and classified staff are on site.
Installing a preseason emergency response plan
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All public and private schools have an emergency response plan that al...