Category: For Teachers

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Gems of Advice from Your Industry Peers

We hope you’ve just read Advice Every Entrepreneur Needs to Hear that precedes this post. If not, please click here to read that post after you have soaked in the lessons learned from your industry peers we’ve gathered here.  Short of experiencing things for yourself, there is no better way to

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A woman wearing pajamas is drinking her coffee while working remotely.

Facts About Working Remotely

Working remotely is part of the flexible job phenomenon that has come under some scrutiny from academics, news organizations businesses, and government agencies. They’re all looking for statistics that show how job flexibility impacts the marketplace. So now we have more information than we know what to do with about

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In the news

When Parents Can’t Swim

It’s a fact that a Red Cross survey produced results showing that somewhere around 61% of the children in the US cannot swim. It’s also been revealed by a national research study by the USA Swimming Foundation and the University of Memphis that a non-swimming parent only sees that his

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Jackrabbit Tips & Tricks

Bad Weather and Swimming

I have fond memories of endless hours of swimming and playing in the spring-fed swimming pool that my grandfather built. I also remember the disappointment I felt when we were forced from the pool by our supervising adults after they had heard a clap of thunder. This isn’t surprising behavior.

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Additional Attendance Details for Late, Left Early, and Observing are being added to Jackrabbit Class.

There are New Attendance Options in the Staff Portal!

We’ve been in listening mode again! Today we are pleased to announce the wide release of additional attendance options in the Staff Portal. These include marking students Late, Left Early, and Observing. Instructors now can refine their attendance to more accurately reflect the class attendance. As seen in the above

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Three girl gymnasts flexing their muscles.

Improving Cardio Endurance for Children

Did you that the American Heart Association has research that the cardiovascular endurance of America’s children fell an average of 6 percent per decade between 1970 and 2000. It’s not just a problem in America. In fact, the cardiovascular health of children in nations around the world has declined by

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Young boy and girls enjoying a co-ed gymnastics class

How to Manage a Co-Ed Gymnastics Class for Kids

In competitive gymnastics for boys and girls, they compete on some of the same apparatus, but not against each other. Each gender also competes on different equipment that takes advantage of gender-specific physical skills, such as the extraordinary upper body strength required for the rings for boys and the higher

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