Sports Done Right

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Sports Done Right

• Agenda
• Overview of Committee work
• Share proposed recommendations for the SAD 51
  Board of Directors

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Sports Done Right

• Overview of the Initiative
• Proposal to Congress
• University of Maines Center for Sport and
  Coaching
• Focus is to improve student experiences,
  learning, and personal growth through sports

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• SAD 51 - a pilot site for 15 months and the SDR
  committee has
• Solicited community input through five forums
  since last May
• Conducted a sports survey where 550 of our 7th to
  11th graders responded
• Developed recommendations to present to the Board
  on May 23rd

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• The SDR initiative is a tool for continuous
  improvement and is intended to be a working
  document. Many of the issues raised by the
  initiative will take time and continuing dialogue
  to resolve and implement. As such, the goal of
  this committee has been to set forth a work plan
  to provide context and serve as a reference as
  the District and the community move forward.

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• Recommendations to Board are to adopt three SDR
  documents for use in SAD 51
• 1. Statement of Philosophy
• 2. Community Compact
• 3. Sports Done Right Compact

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• Sports Done Right presents a statement of
  philosophy and as such must be embraced by the
  community at large as well as by the Board of
  Directors. It calls for a renewed emphasis on
  the ability of sports to teach character,
  sportsmanship, positive attitudes and life skills
  and will require a commitment not only from our
  administrators and coaches, but even more so from
  our parents, students and fans. These governing
  principles are embraced in the Statement of
  Philosophy and Community and Individual Compacts
  and are the heart of Sports Done Right.

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• Additional recommendations
• Greely High School Athletics
• 1. Do not reduce competitive nature of varsity
• 2. Be consistent in tryouts, coaches actions,
  enforcement of compacts and District rules
• 3. Establish a Student Athletic Council and
  Captains Academy to involve students

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• Additional recommendations
• Greely Middle School Athletics
• 1. Focus on exploration rather than
  specialization, skills, teamwork, sportsmanship,
  responsibility and opportunity to play
• 2. Be consistent in tryouts, coaches actions,
  enforcement of compacts and District rules
  communicate changes needed due to changes in
  enrollment/interest each fall
• 3. Initiate dialogue at state level with the
  goal of increasing opportunity to play.
  Investigate popular intramural offerings

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• Additional recommendations
• Coaching
• 1. Provide professional development on SDR. MPA
  online, and reinforce differences in coaching
  different age groups
• 2. Recognize a teaching background or equivalent
  experience is advantageous
• 3. Develop consistent expectations based on SDR
  core principles and practices and include
  feedback mechanisms

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• Additional recommendations
• Community/youth sports
• 1. Rec. Dept. to engage meetings with Cumberland
  and N. Yarmouth youth teams to promote
  consistency and best practices
• 2. Promote online coaching training for all
  youth coaches
• 3. Offer non-traditional programs and prioritize
  use of facilities partially based on teams
  support of SDR

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• Additional recommendations
• Funding
• 1. Opposed to pay to play
• 2. Booster contribution varies but totals
  approximately 20 of total budget
• 3. Boosters fund scholarships to ensure all can
  play
• 4. Systematize District funding District to pay
  for basics and boosters continue to pay for
  extras. Investigate common fundraising
  opportunities/venues. Revisit booster guidelines.