coaches

I'm wondering what it is about a teacher/coach that makes their relationship with all students so different from "just teachers." I was thinking the other day about the fact that it wasn't just my own coach that I interacted with a little differently, but also the other coaches that I had for teachers. Even if I never ran track myself, when I had the coach as my teacher in Etemology, I saw him as a coach and teacher....which was more. All the students just seemed to be a little bit closer to the teachers who coached a sport, or ran theatre, chior, brain game team, or something else. I think it's because as students we knew that cared about us and were willing to invest in us more than just as teachers.

P.S. The middle school and high school in the corporation I'm teaching in starting in Jan have BOTH called me now to ask if I would coach swim team! yay!