[weberr]

If student achievement is you goal, then how you get that to happen can be done many ways and in different approaches each year. We have a phenomenal parent/mentor/coach who was previously a soccer coach. What makes him so special, is that he is able to assess the needs of the drive team: model structure, strategy and problem solving skills, as well as how to communicate and defuse a situation. As the students achieve during the year, our drive coach fades back promotes students to take over the role of drive coach. It is a win-win situation as students are set up for achievement rather than trusted into the position and having to swim.

Our team is small; we have about 17-18 students with 7-8 always in attendance, so having fantastic mentors/adults like our drive coach is almost a necessity. We are also a young team, with only four years under our belt. Sometimes I imagine what it would be like to have 70 or more students on the team five years from now. Would that change our needs? I do not know.