Saturday, November 6, 2010

What can a school learn from a top gym

The Les Mills Organisation is one of the most successful fitness organisations in the world.  This can be attributed in no small part to the quality and passion of their instructors.  Reading the book Fighting Globesity I came across the Les Mills group fitness instructors creed:

We are the warriors in the battle against sedentary lifestyle.
We are the warriors in the battle against apathy to learning.

We are here for the people in our classes.

We honour or programme, our peers and our club.
We honour or programme, our peers and our school.

We keep ourselves in peak physical condition.
We keep ourselves in peak mental condition.

We love music and exercise.
We love teaching and learning.

We welcome feedback.

We create magic fitness experiences.
We create magic learning experiences.

We strive to be star performers and remain team players.

By inspiring positive changes in our classes we can change the world.

By only slightly modifying this, with a change of words here and there as I have done in some cases with italic, we could take the Les Mills creed and create one that would be perfect for a school and education system that is looking to have a positive impact on all students.

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