Athlos Academies Blog

Do you have girt?

Performance Character and Academic Achievement

The current buzz word in education is grit. Everyone is talking about grit. Angela Duckworth popularized the topic and has even provided a test to determine your grit score. How much grit do you have?

Fit Bodies, Fit Minds: The Athlos Approach

Fit Bodies, Fit Minds: The Athlos Approach

Did you know that despite an obesity epidemic in the United States, only 3.8% of the nation’s elementary schools are offering daily physical education? Doesn’t sound logical, does it? Well, we don’t think so either.

Philosophy of Teaching and Learning

Philosophy of Teaching and Learning

What’s your philosophy of education? We all have one . . . somewhere. On a shelf. In a binder we left boxed up when we moved classrooms last summer. On some slide in a PowerPoint we presented in 2004.