Athletics

Athletics provide a powerful opportunity for building good character. Skills like work ethic, teamwork, leadership, and integrity contribute to the short-term success of the athlete and team and the long-term development and success of the individual.

We’d be happy to meet with your team and coaches to help you start a sports initiative. We’ll help educate your team about:

the appropriate role of sports in education,
shaping culture to maximize the potential of your team,
how to guide your student-athletes to focus on preparation, hard work, self-discipline, and more.

Our team will also be your guide throughout your continued efforts.

We Can Help

Our team can assist you in evaluating your needs and selecting the services that will help meet your goals.

Assessment

Understanding the culture of your team is the essential first step towards getting the competitive edge.

The Sport Team Culture survey gathers parallel data from athletes and coaching staff. It can provide insight into:

your team culture among athletes,
the coaching practices that shape how your athletes treat each other,
how your athletes prepare to compete.

Learn more about our assessment opportunities.

Professional Development

In this workshop, participants will learn tools and strategies to coach the Six Pillars in athletics and activities by turning values into behaviors, as well as develop implementation plans to Teach, Encourage, Advocate, and Model the Six Pillars of Character on their teams.

Ongoing Consultation

Our team can work with you and discuss:

best practices
brainstorm ideas to Teach, Enforce, Advocate, and Model the Six Pillars
receive feedback on CC! lessons
asnswer your questions,

Consultations are a great way to keep your CC! program on-track and provide your team with new ideas to help make your CC! program successful.

Curricular Resources and Teaching Tools

We offer a variety of character education curricular resources in our online store, including:

resilience and inclusion lesson pack
daily activities
lesson plans
awareness products like posters, banners, wristbands, and pencils.

Check out our store.

Digital Classroom

Our online lesson plan library provides character education lesson plans that can be filtered by grade level and topic.

Check out our Digital Classroom.

Get Started Today

Don’t wait another day to integrate on character skills in your athletics inititaties!

Get started by requesting information with the button below. If you like what we provide, we’d love to provide a free consultation to discuss how we can help you reach your goals.

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“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”

-Knute Rockne

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OF PARENTS AND COACHES BELIEVE SPORTSMANSHIP IS GETTING WORSE

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Building Culture

Your strategy will never outperform your culture. All of the drills and practice plans in the world won’t overcome poor work ethic, bad teamwork, or a lack of accountability.

Your job as a leader is to create a culture that encourages positive behaviors and develops the character needed for your team to perform at its best.

Resource Highlight

The ESSENTIALS

The ESSENTIALS is a research-based character development, SEL, and leadership enhancement program designed for educators working with middle and high school-aged youth.

The ten focus areas in The ESSENTIALS series represent critical competencies for developing character and culture skills needed for success in school, extra-curricular activities, work, and beyond.

Modules are aligned with the Six Pillars of Characterand the core CASEL Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Competencies of self-management, self-awareness, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.