A Coach's Diary

Former player Rebecca Lobo on some of the things that make Geno Auriemma great as a a coach. He demands excellence from everybody in his program at all times. He holds every play and person to a high standard everyday in practice.  He also knows how to motivate his players and the different personalities on his team to get them to perform at their highest level everyday.

I receive a newsletter every week titled Marshall Memo from Kim Marshall at Kim.Marshall8@verizon.net.  It is an educational newsletter that is filled with great information on education and growing students and teachers, and many of the articles and information is very pertinant to coaching.  Coaches, among many other roles, are teachers of the game of basketball.  I love reading articles about education and using them to help myself grow as a coach, a teacher, a leader, and a man. This article discusses the true goal of education and what we should be looking to get out of our students. In this Education Week article, author Marc Prensky questions whether learning is the best word for what we want from our schools. Learning is the right word if our aspiration is that students graduate as learned scholars, but that’s not what most of us have in mind for K-12 schools. Learning is important, of course, but it’s a means to an end. “The real goal of education, and o...