After 12 years as principal of Clintondale High School, Greg Green had a bad feeling: He knew his school was failing its students.

Especially the at-risk ones. Only 63% of the kids at Clintondale went on to college, and 35% didn’t even make it though high school. It was rated as one of the worst schools in Michigan.

He and his staff had tried everything they could with the school’s limited resources. Nothing worked.

But he had an out-of-the-box idea.

Green is also a coach. To get the most out of the time he had with his players, he’d been making them videos to watch at home so they could see what they were doing wrong and how they could improve.

What if academic classes operated the same way, with kids prepping in advance by watching videos online at home or in the school library, and then doing their work in school, during the day, with teachers on hand to assist?

Could that actually work?

By 2011, Clintondale had flipped all of its classes, the first U.S. school to do so.

Clintondale’s failure rate dropped from 35% to 10%. College enrollment went up from 63% to 80% in two years!

Article by Scot McKnight

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Very sad news to pass on today. Bishop Carroll assistant football coach Roger Robben died Monday morning after returning home from a run. He was 46.

Read story online here.

I am deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Luke Schemm after collapsing on the sideline of the Wallace County vs Otis-Bison game last night.

Support the Luke Schemm Legacy, any money not used for funeral or medical expenses will be used to set up a scholarship in Luke’s name. The website is below.

http://www.lukeschemmlegacy.com/

Here is a link to the story.

Here is a link to a story of him during track last spring.

Mike Lee, football coach of Andover, turned in his resignation yesterday. This means the coaches merry-go-round has begun again.  We have kept track of head football coach openings for years here at KansasPrepFootball.com and it has been one of our most visited pages during the off-season. So if you know of a coach opening, please let us know. We do try to confirm the opening and not list rumors. So please send us no gossip. Thank you.

New Coaches Page

Gotta love this. Are you ready for some football?

Link to a nice article about preventing injuries. Written by an Orthopedic Surgeon who played full pad football and has four boys playing full pad football today.

Preventative injury systems make football safer

Here is a link to the Kansas Pregame Magazine Digital Copy

Did you read Coach Jeff Floyd’s article on his website recently? Good reasons to go out for track.  Read it here.

We have a link to Coach Floyd’s website on our ‘Links’ page. You should follow his blog:

You Can Do More Your Brain is Lying to You….Don’t Believe It

Found this great article  10 Reasons to Join the Track Team. Next is a quote from the article:

Every year, I attempt to recruit our best football players to the sport of track & field.  Track does not sell itself.  This article will focus on how I recruit athletes to the Plainfield North track program.  Some of the things we do will not be universal.  Hopefully this article gives track coaches some tools to promote your sport.  Hopefully this article will help athletes and their parents to develop a balanced approach to athletic participation.  The only adults promoting specialization are jackasses who benefit from specialization.  All true educators promote balance.

General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis U.S. Marine Corp

Just had to share some of the thoughts from this man. He has many more you can look up online but these today apply to football, in my opinion.

1. The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.
2. You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad.
3. Fight with a happy heart and strong spirit.
4. I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I can’t even spell the word.