Glenwood

Multi-Grade PE: Controlling the Chaos

Doug Curtin 26 Apr 2019
Teaching fitness and weight training to a class of mixed-grades and abilities is quite the challenge. Glenwood High School needed to find a way to provide individualized weight training for every student within one class period.
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Dakota Valley Weight Room

Technology in the Weight Room: Friend or Foe?

Doug Curtin 16 Apr 2019
For Head Strength Coach, Cody Sexton, using excel to manage his training just wasn’t cutting it. He was spending his weekends manually updating 100’s of tabs in excel. He knew there had to be an easier way to train his athletes—which led him to PLT4M.
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Hightstown header

From “Gym” Class to Physical Education

Doug Curtin 23 Mar 2022
For decades, “Gym Class” became associated with a school subject looked at with pity and derision. Instead of hard work and self-empowerment, it was the class to skip, the one less important than “academic” subjects. Here’s how Jeff Drake, PE Teacher at Hightstown, and his industrious team of teachers, set out to rewrite the curriculum.
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Glenwood High School

Team Culture: Training Together

Doug Curtin 18 Mar 2019
Changing team culture is not an easy task. For David Hay, he had an even taller task—bringing together an entire athletic program. Here’s how Glenwood High School reinvigorated their training and team culture.
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North Posey PLT4M

From BFS to PLT4M

Doug Curtin 20 Feb 2019
Athletic Director and Head Football Coach, Waylon Schenk, knew there had to be a more efficient way to train his athletes. Here’s why he switched from BFS to PLT4M.
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