Does your Organization or League…

Monitor development progress and success of its kids?

We believe The best organizations and leagues focus on the whole child. In other words, they try to focus on developing kids both personally and academically as well as athletically. If the kids in your organization and league are not performing well in school or didn’t during the school year, we believe that  misstep represents a chance for them to grow.

Does your organization and league monitor or track academic progress and/or success of its kids? If so, does your organization and league celebrate kids’ success even after the school year is over?

When we say progress or success, we don’t always mean grades or only the kids who get straight A’s on their report cards. It depends on how your organization and league defines academic success**, right?

**Success can be defined as a child who demonstrates resiliency, organization, and/or effective, positive growth, in addition to a child who gets better each year in school or has an exceptional report card.

The emphasis on growth and success should be a part of your team/league/organizational culture. As an organization or league board, you have to define success and then share it to everyone in your organization.

Recommended Action Steps:

• Have a book drive for families
• Share development resources w/ parents and families such as:
  • Resilience Tool for Parents
  • Building Resilience in Children
  • Understanding Executive Function Skills for Kids
• Have a book reading contest.
  • Partner with a professional team or recreational park and/or pool to build incentives for this contest
• Call the superintendent of the local school district and set up a meeting on how you can support each other in this goal.
• Have teachers and administrators throw out the first pitch at the kids’ games
• Award kids who demonstrated academic or developmental success** (again not necessarily always the straight “A” kid)