Educational Leadership Resource Guide

This program analyzes the nuanced art of coaching by examining three popular coaching styles: authoritarian, distant yet approachable, and friendly.

This program offers detailed suggestions, examining the physical and mental areas of a player's development in which a successful coach operates.

From Key Concepts in Sport & Exercise Sciences
Leadership involves influencing a group of people towards a goal. How that is done, what processes are involved, what the goal is, and who the people are can all vary greatly. This has made it difficult to study leadership in a reliable and valid way. Defining leadership through ‘influence’ implies that the leader is central in the group. However, recent approaches to studying leadership have also focused on the people who follow. This suggests that another way of understanding leadership is to say that a leader is someone who others follow.

Coach and Athletic Director magazine is the largest publication in the school sports industry published by Coach & A.D.

We set directions for the future by building awareness and support, improving the participation experience, establishing consistent standards and rules for competition, and helping those who oversee high school sports and activities.

The NIAAA champions the profession of administering athletic programs in our nation’s high schools and middle schools.