S1E6 - "Sport and School: Building Skills, Belonging and Community" with Jeff Gourley and Aaron Mitchell
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Welcome back to the Community Room! Today, we chat with two high school basketball coaches - Aaron Mitchell and Jeff Gourley - about how they use their role as a...
show moreQUOTES (POST EPISODE):
- “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
- Aaron's response: This quote covers a lot in a few words. Within teams and schools, it becomes a collective effort to strive for excellence on all levels. As a team, you must make an effort to have your "last" player as fully invested as your first, maybe not skill wise, but mentally and emotionally. When teams are invested in each other and not themselves powerful things happen. I firmly believe the same for schools; if we flip our leadership model upside down, with families and students being the top of the pyramid and teachers / admin at the bottom, empowerment happens, accountability happens, open feedback happens............and well, a whole bunch of really good stuff happens."
RESOURCES:
- SAFETEEN: www.safeteen.ca - "Safeteen is an internationally recognized violence prevention strategy that cultivates a radical transformation from a youth culture of fear and survival to one of empathy, safety and empowerment."
- "A Hoops Journey": Hosted by Aaron Mitchell and Corbin Castres https://linktr.ee/ahoopsjourney
- "A Hoops Journey": Episode 2 featuring Bal Dhillon = https://open.spotify.com/episode/5LwLzZPzs2AgiK4bZGkg1g?si=KeF-k8pkQTifgWoZkc5k4Q
- "A Hoops Journey": Episode 18 featuring Jeff Gourley = https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qOQvPgrcpSrBurwdRFBAT?si=y7onKNrdSaSS8OQDn3NFRg
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