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We Take Them out for Ice Cream

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...

Success Breeds Success

When I get out to the driving range, I go through all of my clubs starting with the wedges and finishing with the driver. I hit each club...

The Cultural Environment

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

Player-Centered Coaching

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

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!

Taking time as coaches to step back from the court, field, pool deck, and diamonds is key for our health and growth as coaches. As such,...

Individual Differences

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

Interaction in Coaching

Introduction Last week we shared Flanders’ Interaction Analysis with you in a teacher/classroom setting. This week we will explore the...

Interaction in the Classroom

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

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have much to be thankful for: Family, friends, students, players, all those we love and who love us, and our continued learning...

Phil Jackson - 1945 –

Born: September 17, 1945 Deer Lodge, Montana, U.S. High school: Williston (Williston, North Dakota) College: ...

Abraham Maslow - 1907-1980

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

Those who have Inspired Us

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

Thinking

The process Thinking encompasses all of the previous seven concepts plus other connections. When you do a computer search on the concept...

Memory, Language, Emotion

For the last four blogs, we have presented the most important psychological concepts related to the educational growth of our players;...

Motivation

You are four games into the new season and it’s time for you and your assistant coaches, Allison Long and Joe Ames, to review how your...

Learning

Dictionary definition Learning is “a process that leads to change, which occurs as a result of experience and increases the potential for...

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