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The Skills Center (TSC) in Tampa Bay, Florida is a leader in sports-based education. TSC’s teaches values such as respect, responsibility and leadership through sports and community-based programs such as the Academic Café, PLUS Learn to Lead and the Y.E.S. Programs.

The sports-based youth development model is new and gaining momentum around the world as a potentially powerful medium for teaching character and leadership in children. TSC seeks to be a leader in this new approach to youth development and education.

What is Sport-Based Education?

“Sport-based education (SBE) uses sports intentionally to teach and develop targeted cognitive, social, psychological, moral, and physical outcome goals. Sport-based education involves the application of relevant research in developing curriculum to teach 21st Century survival skills.”

 –  Jeff Beedy Ed.D Founder of PLUS

PHILOSOPHY

What is important?

The philosophy of our program defines why we are doing what we are doing and what we want to accomplish.

PSYCHOLOGY

We need to be cognizant of how children learn in general, and, specifically, how children learn important program goals such as teamwork and responsibility.

PEDAGOGY

How is what’s important taught?

​How we “teach and coach” can be understood as our pedagogy.

PROGRAMS

What are your learning activities?

Basically, all of the activities that we design including practices, team meetings, team orientations, readings and rituals make up what we call our Program.

PROGRESS

How do we know our children are learning what’s important?

Valid sport-based programs seek to prove their validity.

POSITIVE LEARNING USING SPORTS PLUS

Positive Learning Using Sports (PLUS) is the leader in sport-based education and training. PLUS is an international global organization that gives educational training to communities and programs through sports and promoting positive human development and social change. Since 1984, Sports PLUS has reached over five thousand children and trained two thousand coaches and educators in camps and after-school programs throughout the United States, Cyprus, Canada, and Hong Kong.[9] Their PLUS model has five essential steps that communities can use. The steps develop respectful relationships and an understanding of how children learn in groups.

SPORTS INTENTIONALITY

The children’s passion for sports is the draw. Sport is the platform. The key for all programs is intentionality. Sport-based education (SBE) is using sports intentionally to teach and develop targeted cognitive, social, psychological, moral, and physical outcome goals. Sport-based education involves the synthesis of relevant research and sports.
TAMPA, FL - JULY 19:    John Henson signs autographs at the John Henson Experience benefitting Up2Us at the Tampa Bay Youth Sports Expo on July 19, 2014 in Tampa, Florida.  The event raises money to put coach-mentors in the Tampa community.   (Photo by Tim Boyles/Getty Images for Up2Us)

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