Teachable/Coachable

Yesterday I had the privilege of watching my son play football.  In fact, we have quite a few of our 5th and 6th graders on this team.  Our boys won the game comfortably 48-0.  In fact, the other team didn't even make a first down the entire game.  Our boys played a great game!!  The success of this team comes down to the fact that these boys had to listen to their coaches and then implement the game plan when they got onto the field.  The preparation, the practice and then the execution of the plan work together so that our kids and our team are set up for success.

School success is the same.  If we get all the way to game day (tests, STAAR) and we haven't practiced well, the our chances of being successful go down dramatically.  Our kids have to prepare, practice and then execute, just like they do on the field or courts.  But so many times our kids are willing to put forward the effort and persevere in our athletics endeavors but they are not willing to put forward the same effort in the classroom.   In all situations, our kids have to be coachable.  They have to be open to the idea of how to be guided to success and then they need to practice before the day of the game.  

This week we are going to talk about what it means to be teachable/coachable.  We want them to be open to the new possibilities of what their teachers want to be able to teach them and then we need them working hard to learn what they need to know.  We know that kids that are uncoachable/unteachable struggle with the same prospects as adults.   

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