Pre-Season Coaches Meetings: Set the tone for success

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Pre-Season Coaches Meetings Set the tone for
success

• Don Dalziel Shoreline School District
• Robert Polk Everett School District

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Why hold the meeting?

• To educate coaches so they can effectively teach
  their sport, manage risk, decrease drama
• To reduce district liability if a coach is
  negligent
• To attempt to teach common sense to adults

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Making Presentations Effective

• Brain Rules, Chapter 4 Attention
• Brains can focus for 10 minutes at a time
• Change it up with videos, group discussions
• Brains need breaks to digest information
• Emotions get our attention
• Link an emotional story to important information
• Make information relevant to coaches survival
• Brains cannot multi-task
• Cell phones put away

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What to cover

• Mission/Vision of educational athletics
• Road map to help decision making
• Practice expectation
• Yearly/Season plan
• Daily practice plans with coaches
• Athletes properly equipped and engaged
• Effective teaching/coaching
• No secrets - Tell them, show them, remind them
  constantly what you want practice, study table,
  film review, etc
• Effective feedback builds confidence,
  understanding

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What to cover

• WIAA/League Policies
• Out of season, recruiting, coaches education
  standards, admission prices
• District Policies
• Overnight trips, drugs/alcohol/tobacco, ASB,
  blood borne pathogens, Duty to Report Child Abuse

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What to cover

• Legal Duties LTC 504
• Grooming Behavior
• Facebook, texting, special treatment
• Hazing/Harassment
• Health and Safety
• Facility repairs, concussions, return to play,
  communicable diseases, weather
• Drugs/Alcohol, steroids

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Suggested Information to Include

• Successes of Student-Athletes
• Athlete v. Non-Athlete GPA, test scores,
  attendance, competition
• College Eligibility D1, D2, NAIA
• Effective teaching/coaching strategies

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Turn it over to Don Dalziel

• Shoreline School District