Flanagan, L. (2019, February 07). What Teachers and Sports Coaches Can Learn From Each Other. Retrieved March 13, 2019.

Teachers can learn lessons from athletic coaches that can be applied in the classroom and vice versa, according to several experienced teacher-coaches. Jeff Gilbert, a former teacher and coach and now principal of a California high school, suggests that teachers integrate public performance into lessons and work to build unity among students.

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