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RATIONALE: WHY TEACH WITH SPORTS?

POWERHITTER IS FUN AND INTELLECTUALLY RICH!

CLASSROOM COACH: GO TO BAT FOR YOUR PLAYERS/TEAMMATES

CLASSROOM COACH: GO TO BAT FOR YOUR PLAYERS/TEAMMATES

Powerhitter® is fun and research-based. 


POWERHITTER CLASSROOM GAME PLAN   includes Teacher Training,Teacher Curriculum with 36 ready-to-go, cross-disciplinary centers:

Dugout Dictionary, Game Day Forecast, Injury Report, Equipment Manager, Mascot Mania, Baseball Architecture and more. Includes 40 accompanying reproducible student  activity sheets; cards for vocabulary, teams, stadiums, cities, sports injuries, and equipment, countries, Standards Spreadsheets, Teacher's Guide, Center Directions, MLB Team Directory,

Assessment Rubric for Projects.

Extras: Spanish Language Centers

Posters (What is Culture? What is Baseball Culture?) 


STUDENT CONSUMABLE BOOKLETS: Math, Literacy, Language Arts (24 pages each) Grades 3-6+, Literacy Assessment, Enrichment, Baseball Card Activity Packet. 


CLASSROOM COACH: GO TO BAT FOR YOUR PLAYERS/TEAMMATES

CLASSROOM COACH: GO TO BAT FOR YOUR PLAYERS/TEAMMATES

CLASSROOM COACH: GO TO BAT FOR YOUR PLAYERS/TEAMMATES

30 + YEARS TEACHING THROUGH BASEBALL

ENGAGE STUDENTS WITH PROVEN  METHODS

PRACTICE FUNDAMENTALS

TEACH, ENRICH, MOTIVATE


POWERHITTER® 4 BASES  

WORK TOWARDS YOUR PERSONAL BEST

FOCUS ON TODAY

SHOW UP READY TO PLAY

REBOUND FROM AN ERROR


Our unique curriculum and training were key components of fully-funded (Nita M. Lowey) 21st Century Federal Grants in two states.  Kids were not only motivated to learn, but transferred their knowledge on sports injuries, tax on concession items, team attendance data and more. Each class creates their own mascot, presents culminating projects with teammates. 



 

POWERHITTER® SEMINARS TRANSFORM YOUR ROSTER INTO A TEAM

CLASSROOM COACH: GO TO BAT FOR YOUR PLAYERS/TEAMMATES

POWERHITTER® SEMINARS TRANSFORM YOUR ROSTER INTO A TEAM

  1. Game Plan & Rationale: Why Teach with Sports?
  2. Coaching Styles: Tips from the Coach
  3. Everybody Needs a Coach: Mentor Model, Motivate
  4. Ground Rules: Boundaries in Sports/Life
  5. Teammates Teaching: Peers Expand Potential 
  6. Powerhitter® Classroom: ELA, MATH, SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES, RESEARCH, DATA ANALYSiS
  7.  7th Inning Stretch/Half Time (Movement/Music)
  8. Project-Based Learning - Research Content in Teams
  9. Game Day Recap Assess & Plan for Next Game Day


POWERHITTER TEACHERS SEMINARS are hosted by schools, districts, teams, universities, museums, players foundations and sponsored by MLB, BIC, ADVANTA, RYDER, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, SODEXO/MARRIOTT, GENERAL ELECTRIC

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“WE’RE THE SPORTSBALLKIDS!”

WHAT RESEARCH TELL US.


  • The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is known as the nation's report card. Every two years, 4th, 8th and 12th graders are assessed in every state across all demographics. [2024 scores will be released in late 2024 or January 2025.] But in 2022, Math and Literacy scores declined to 25-year lows with 4th graders' loss most significant. [Powerhitter® targets 4th & 5th grade learners.) 


  • The Brookings Institute's 2022 study entitled, "The pandemic has had devastating impacts on learning. What will it take to help kids catch up?' sums up what Educators already knew. Learning requires practice and honing each player's academic and social fundamentals.


  • Stanford University researchers, led by Dr. Sean Riordan (2024) explains the Education Recovery Scorecard, “Students in the most disadvantaged communities had test scores decline the most. School districts are the first line of action to help children catch up. The better they know about the patterns of learning loss, the more they’re going to be able to target their resources effectively." https://educationrecoveryscorecard.or


  •  In her article, "Motivation in Education: What it takes to Motivate Our Kids," published in The Journal of Positive Psychology (2022), Beata Souders, Ph. D. research suggests, "learning activities offer choice, provide challenges, opportunities for success appropriate to students’ level of skill, and create interest through discovery." 


  • Knaupp (1995) asserts,"Students' abilities are not simply inherited aptitudes, but developed through both pedagogical and social interventions in place, over an extended period of time." 
  • Carnoy & Garcia (2017), Mc Laughlin & Sheridan (2016), and American Psychological Association (2022) assert that the two most statistically significant negative predictors of high academic achievement in the United States today are: low family income and ethnicity. If these predictors are combined, as so often happens, the probability that a student will be academically successful, let alone a high achiever, diminishes even more. 


  • David C. Berliner, Ph. D., Regents' Professor,  Dean Emeritus of the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education (my dissertation chair and lifelong mentor), is a world-renowned researcher. He recognized the program's potential, and its' application across all social class settings nationally and globally. He offered sage advice. "Powerhitter® curriculum is original, universal, timeless, and relevant. Consider focusing your research on an educational policy study and retain your sports-themed intellectual property." He summed up the program's ability to motivate, teach, and engage kids, in one sentence:"Just because it's fun, doesn’t mean it’s not intellectually rich." POWERHITTER CLASSROOM - IT'S NOT JUST FUN, IT'S INTELLECTUALLY RICH! 


  • The Powerhitter® Classroom Curriculum promotes enrichment and reinforcement of literacy, numeracy and technology skill sets for all players. Centers-based teaching emphasizes "the team” aspect of learning, borrowed from Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development and Lave’s Legitimate Peripheral Participation theories that encourage Teammates Teaching their peers, and coaching from cross-grade-level mentors.


  • Citations: 
  • Carnoy & Garcia (2017) Five Key Trends in U.S. School Performance. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED588043.pd
  • Knapp, M. (Ed.). (1995). Teaching for Meaning in high poverty classrooms. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Kuhlfield, M., Soland, J., Lewis, K, & Morton, M. (March 2022). https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2022/03/03/the-pandemic-has-had-devastating-impacts-on-learning-what-will-it-take-to-help-students-catch-up/
  •  McLaughlin, K. A., & Sheridan, M. A. (2016). Beyond cumulative risk: A dimensional approach to childhood adversity. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(4), 239–245. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416655883 
  • National Assessment of Educational Progress (October 2022). https://www.nagb.gov/news-and-events/news-releases/2022/report-card-score-decline-4th-8th-grade-math-reading.html. 
  • Sounders, B. (2022). "Motivation in Education: What it takes to Motivate Our Kids," Journal of Positive Psychology. 
  • Sparks, S. (October 24, 2022). "Two Decades of Proficiency Nearly Gone: National Math, Reading Scores Hit Historic Lows."Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/two-decades-of-progress-nearly-gone-national-math-reading-scores-hit-historic-lows/2022/10. 
  • Spector, C. (2024) https://ed.stanford.edu/news/new-report-shows-historic-gains-pandemic-recovery-many-us-school-districts 


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