Lesson Trends for 2020
Smaller groups. Swim teachers doing private lessons while on deck. Parents and guardians working in the water with their own children with the teacher in a remote position.
Some instructors, such as Robert A. Strauss of Miami, Florida's Swim Gym, have turned to internet lesson plans to better instruct the adults in how to teach the kids. A worry is a spike in deaths due at home pools due to distracted parents, more time at home and a lack of swim lessons.
Drowning is a global epidemic claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year
A majority of the water-related deaths are children belonging to minority and low income populations, traditionally underserved in the aquatics community. (See more at the diversity page.)
Get Your Feet Wet - Swimming, is an online resource that can be deployed in camps, lesson programs and in your community.
Summer Dreamers playing water polo
Swim Lessons with a Ball or a Disk, and fins and fitness
Learning to swim comes along with improved listening skills and opportunities to play well with others.
Swimmers on pool deck at Ammon with swim fins and SKWIM in background
Growing Great Kids
Technique Videos from The Stroke Doctor
Blue Fox by Deep Blue magazine feature on tech to prevent drowning
Interesting article and worthy read on the company and its inventive history.Drowning
Heavy Story, worthy reminder
Good luck Alice!
Safe travels and enjoy your time in Japan, to Allice and all
New CDC report on racial and ethnic disparities in drowning death rates in the U.S.
From: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention While rates have decreased, disparities
Inclusion in IN swimming
Email from Coach to AD: “Fire Me if You Must.” Conversation with NH Coach @ masks and health guidelines.
Track coach Brad Keyes of New Hampshire’s Pembroke Academy was fired recently
Check out David McCagg’s Training Device and the sweet discount to April 15, 2021
Summer is for open-water and this new training device  Dear Swimmers, Coaches
Coldplay and Krip Hop for Para Games
For more on the backstory, listen to the Dave Zirin podcast, Edge
2021 National Water Safety Conference Online — speakers include Mark & Kevin
Spreading some swimming love for ISCA’s kid’s course in The Academy Press
Subscribe to The Academy Press, via MailChimp!Get Your Feet Wet - Swimming,
What equipment gimmicks would you devise with some of these items?
Pool noodle hacks
Got Noodles? Of course you do.By placing a pool noodle in the
Sportsmanship lesson: Flinging a shoe, flipper or fin can end your team’s playoff hopes.
LSU Tigers visit Florida Gators on Trophy Weekend on the GridironA win
ISCA helped in a sponsorship role with the SKWIM & Water Polo camp experience with Pittsburgh Public Schools in 2020 – now time for plans for 2021
Plant seeds in December and January! Plan for summer now with local,
Grassroots swimming discussion with Robert Stauss of Miami and Mark, ISCA’s webmaster and coach
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