You could use other terminology. I first used what we called “Individualized Instruction” with my fourth grade students in Barrington,...

Our unpacking and review of each of the levels in The Taxonomy of Competition  continues this week.  For our review of Level 3, we chose...

Commentary on Notes Levels of Competition: Competition, the quality that includes Winning and Losing, exists in many forms and levels...

Coaching is love made visible. And if you cannot coach with love, it is better that you sit in the stands and watch those who coach with...

To our Readers: This is the kind of letter I like to send out to the parents of a new team of young players. You may use this any way you...

Mentor The word “mentor” comes from Greek mythology. Mentor was the name of the wise and trusted counselor of Odysseus. When Odysseus...

A while ago, we published a blog and used the term “Erase - Erase" and now some people are asking "What Is that “Erase – Erase”...

This week and next week we will enjoy watching the 2023-2024 Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. Oh, Yes there’s also a Men’s NCAA...

It’s fun to compete with others - to test your strength and abilities against others who are able to match your strength and abilities -...

If you are taking a classroom or standardized achievement- type test such as the GRE (Graduate  Records Examination), leave your creative...

While being interviewed for a position at a new college, I let it slip that I had coached junior high school basketball and softball. One...

The teams that we coach are located in many different physical environments; clubs, schools, cities, neighborhoods; each having different...

Definition Player-centered Coaching means exactly what it says – we are putting our Players into the proper focus – they are the center...

Mr. Reed has just given his 18 junior-high school math students their homework assignment of 20 examples of subtraction of mixed...

There were many differences between the Traditional School of Education and the Progressive School of Edition and the most important was...

When I began studying to become an educational psychologist, I became aware of the two top choices I had; Behaviorist Psychology or...

The Golden Age of American Education - Part II By Lloyd Miles As you may recall last week we posed the question, Was there a Golden Age...

The Golden Age of American Education - Part I By Lloyd Miles Here it is 2023 and I have been talking to teachers, reading articles, and...

Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated...

Introduction - In this next series of Blogs, we are going to share with you those significant people who have been influential in our...