Tweets like this are a problem in today’s privatized youth sports world. Everyone is COMPETING for kids, rather than COOPERATING for the betterment of kids. Skills coach strength coach hs coach hs strength coach all need to aligned if we truly care about the athlete’s development. It’s a confusing enough time for hs athletes, they don’t need the people in their life competing for their time and bashing their other mentors. Many HS coaches are just as bad, immediately demonizing any private training. There are great private coaches, great hs coaches, and there are bad ones on both sides too. But we’d all be better at our jobs if removed egos and put the athlete firsts.

A student-centered piece of advice about inquiry-based learning: the knowledge you spent a few days building in students by having them read an article or chapter before sending them off on a two-week role-play inquiry project, you know the one where they pretend to be a biologist, historian, or geographer, is nowhere near enough. We are constantly trivializing expert-level knowledge by assuming students can meaningfully engage in inquiry after only brief exposure to content and believing they will simply pick up the rest along the way. Experts can do that. Novices cannot. A few days spent reading an article or chapter does not provide enough background knowledge for students to authentically think and work like a economist or chemist. Here’s what you should do instead: spend those two weeks building far more knowledge. Give students repeated exposure to the concepts, vocabulary, examples, explanations, and models within the discipline. Two weeks spent building accessible knowledge in long-term memory through explicit instruction will help students think and inquire more like a mathematician, poet, or engineer than two weeks spent pretending to be one ever will.

I’ll probably catch flack for this but here goes… The NCAA live period means nothing for the vast majority of basketball players. There’s really only a few select players that could benefit from it. Go to prom Go on that family vacation. Go home and chill. Go to church. RELAX

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Eight Nike Hoop Summit takeaways: • Holy smokes, Miles Sadler. He is an electric factory. How was he not a McDonald’s AA? What a get by Ross Hodge. • Caleb Holt will crush it at Arizona and at the next level. • Lucas Morillo is a GREAT fit for Illinois. • Jordan Smith Jr./Abdou Toure with Coach Cal? Fun! • Brandon McCoy is cold blooded and defended at a high level as well. Dusty May keeps on winning. • Caleb Gaskins’ versatility helped a lot for USA win the game. Jai Lucas hiring Andrew Moran = smart. Miami is rising. • Fascinated to see where Miikka Muurinen lands. So much talent/upside and the bidding war will be entertaining. • USA Basketball and Nike just get it. The Hoop Summit is so much more than just an All Star Game. It’s an event. The USA vs. The World setup always delivers. Really fun to be in Portland!

Need more basketball in my life. Nike Hoop Summit at Moda Center

Wish I could do this every weekend.

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In HS basketball the head coaches are always at the very end of the handshake line. I’d much prefer to do the NCAA way where the second the game ends the head coaches find each other.

Hard earned. Well deserved. Thank you for everything Gavin!

What an incredible season. This is one I’ll remember forever. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who played a part in my development, the community for entrusting me to coach, and everyone who supported and enriched our lives this year. Truly the best profession on earth.

See you tomorrow!

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The 4A Boys Basketball Bracket 🏀👀 There WILL be upsets 🔥 #opreps

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4A BBK Score 🏀👀 🚨 UPSET 🚨 No. 9 Estacada 60, No. 5 Madras 51 The Rangers keep their season alive by knocking off the White Buffalo on Senior Night ‼️ You could tell from the opening tip that they were playing for their season, as it was a total team effort 🔥 Connor Crawford, Paul Ables, and Duke Durand led a balanced effort as they all had 13 pts. In the defeat for Madras, John Buffalo-Ball and Troy Adams ironically had 13 as well. @PrepHoopsOR @ByBrianRathbone @DylanKTVZ #opreps

It was never about them. This is about us.