Category: For Teachers

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Strategy for Dealing with Class Disruptors

Most of your students are the kind that make teaching everything you dreamed it could be. And then there are the few, the demanding, the disruptive. If that sounds like a reference to the Marines, it is. Sometimes that is who you feel you need to call in to deal

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An excited dance studio owner is using her ablet to track skills in Jackrabbit Class.

Getting the Most from Mobile Skill Tracking

Have you heard about Jackrabbit’s new feature in the Staff Portal – Skill Tracking? If you’re wondering why you should start using this as soon as possible for your organization – whether a gym, swim school, music school or any school – keep reading. This feature was built for you to

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Bookmarking Your Staff Portal

Looking for a faster way to access your Staff Portal? The Staff Portal is on a completely different website than your main database. We did this so your staff don’t have to have access to your Jackrabbit database; you can just give them access for the Staff Portal.  (Note: They

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A swim coach is teaching a class proper butterfly form.

When A Child Seems Behind Pace in Learning to Swim

Parents often ask “Is my child learning to swim quickly enough?” Perhaps this is a worry of the typical swim parent because their expectations have never been set in regards to “how long” it should take. There are lots of popular theories. For example, some suggest that learning how to

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Kids are having fun and splashing at a pool party.

Planning a Pool Party for Little Swimmers

If you have little swimmers who like nothing better than spending time in the pool, a pool party is the perfect treat for them. Whether for a birthday or some other celebration, a pool party an provide fun for children as they splash around and develop an even greater level

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Effectively Praising Kids

Praise is a way that adults can use to tell children that they are headed in the right direction – that what they are doing has the potential to earn them success. You can find differing theories and opinions on praise in the news. More general news sources have been

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Health & Fitness

Glute Exercises Wake Up the Swimmer’s Butt

There’s no doubt that swimming has many benefits that far exceed the few issues that very avid swimmers may experience. The fact that avid swimmers are in water for many hours, impacts skin and hair. And constant exposure to a buoyant non-weight bearing environment can have consequences. Fortunately, there are

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Time Clock Enhancements

Settings Allow Multiple Department Managers The Add Department and Edit Department modals now allow multiple managers to be selected. Approve/Unapprove Time (which restricts access to departments to only the dept managers and users with the permission to see all departments), was updated to follow the multiple managers change. My Time

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How to Healthily Motivate Students

The culture of your business is important. It’s what people talk about – and word of mouth is still an impactful advertising [positive or negative]. Having a healthy motivational atmosphere can affect performance effort of your students but can also impact their long term participation in the activity. What if a

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Health & Fitness

Helping Students Who Suffer from Migraines

If you’ve never had a migraine, you probably don’t realize how different it is from a headache. You can offer tremendous help to a student suffering from this condition if you have a little information about migraines and understand how they work. Migraines are a neurological disease, with head pain

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