Dennis Dressel

Highly Motivated HPE Teacher & Athletic Director.
Inspiring Movement And Building Character.

The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Build It.

[Dennis Dressel @DresselHealthPE]

Proud to help lead and organize GMBs activity banquet which acknowledges all students that participated in clubs/sports, and students with principals list or honors in academics. Congratulations 🎉👏

[Dennis Dressel @DresselHealthPE]

Got some ping pong goin on when the weather is HOT! 🥵. Fun fact: racquet sports build the most neuroplasticity of any sport! Hand eye coordination, snap decision making, aim, force, finesse, shot selection are only some of the things students are exposed to w/ racquet sports

[Terry Grier @tgrierhisd]

Schools improve because leaders create systems that improve student outcomes.

A principal can be beloved by staff and still lead a school where only 35% of students read proficiently.

Dr. Marty Haberman would say, “If you are not careful, you’ll love them to death.”

[Dennis Dressel @DresselHealthPE]

@teachthemx3 It's a great idea!

[Coach Jared Rolfes @jaredrolfesFB]

Coaches will understand instantly😂🏈

Little phrases.
Inside jokes.
Random 1 Liners

But unless you’ve been in the locker room, a lot of people probably have NO idea what some of us are actually saying 😂

Here are 4 random things I say while coaching football + meaning 🧵👇

[Jason Ronquillo @CoachRonquillo]

Attn PE Teachers 🚨

Try this -

On the last week of school send 4 kids every 5 minutes to their favorite English or Math teacher and have them say "Can I hang out here, my PE teacher said it was ok since we're not doing anything".

Good times 🤣🤣

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

Students need to learn how to sit, think, and write for extended periods.

No phones. No computer.

Just their thoughts, the struggle to organize them, and the clarity that comes from deep focus.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

This is the problem with showing kids endless grace. At some point, grace stops being support and starts becoming misinformation.

[dailySTEM Chris Woods @dailystem]

“We see kids who will sit still for a screen, but if you hand them a book, they wiggle, cry, or run away…Screen time is replacing those one-on-one quality moments between parent and child,” Russell said.
Reading starts with us being good parents.

[Coach Gelardi @CoachGelardi]

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week. Schools need physical education teachers. Principals notice when there’s a quality PE program because it shows up in student engagement, behavior, and school culture every day.
Giveitatry👏👉 #PhysEd

[Matthew Modine @MatthewModine]

I’m often asked about the pegboard scene in VISION QUEST. That was all me. No stunt doubles or safety measures. I trained for a long time and had to climb it several times to get all the angles. The “trick” is not to over extend, so you’d be pulling up your entire body weight. You have to keep it compact. Arms and elbows tight. 💪🏽

You can support the @FMJDiary project by bidding on a signed VQ poster here: https://t.co/rdgOp7g5ZI

[Dennis Dressel @DresselHealthPE]

1. Given professional freedom to make decisions to maximize student learning.
2. Being able to really learn about and build relationships w/ 200 students vs shallow relationships with 1k students.
3. Having constant visible admin, from principals to supervisors to Superintendent.

[dailySTEM Chris Woods @dailystem]

How would you answer if a student asked “what’s your favorite part about teaching at this school?”
#NewSchoolCulture

[Priyav K Kaneria @_diginova]

this guy just put the most banger slide on the screen

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

Classroom management experts often make it sound like once you set routines, rules, and norms, the hard work is over, and the class will run itself.

In reality, that’s rarely true.

Teaching requires constant attention. The moment you ease up, things start to slip.

You have to stay steady, stay present, and keep your foot on the gas.

[Coach Shaw @CoachShawD]

Praise the Good, Correct the Wrong 💯

[Revolving_Door_Admin @RAD_is_awesome]

Thank you for submitting your department's publisher of choice for your textbook adoption cycle. The ass. sup. of curriculum has decided that it would best for our students by adopting the publisher that your entire department rejected.

[Funky 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @Benaskren]

Hill sprints are starting to look like hill SPRINTS again! So grateful I GET to do this.

You can live life with a “get to” mentality or a “got to” mentality—the choice is yours every day. Since last summer, I’ve gained so much gratitude for the things I GET to do again. When everything is taken from you and you can’t do anything under your own power, you realize just how much you took for granted.

For me: coaching practice, playing in the yard with my kids, watching them compete in sports—even doing hill sprints.

It wasn’t that long ago that I wouldn’t have been able to walk up that hill. Now, by the grace of God and the willpower to grind every day, I’m back to sprinting.

Stop taking things for granted and appreciate the things we GET to do.

[Dennis Dressel @DresselHealthPE]

Amazing story.

[Luke Falk @coachlukefalk]

Every training camp I had at Washington State University, Coach Leach would share the same story.
The story of two kids. The rich kid and the poor kid.

The rich kid has two choices. He can become spoiled, entitled, lazy, and expect everything to be handed to him because he has been given more. Or he can take every advantage of what he has been given—resources, coaching, opportunities—and use it to become even better.

The poor kid has two choices too. He can say, “I never had a chance. Nobody gave me anything. The world is against me.” He can feel sorry for himself and use it as an excuse. Or he can say, “I may not have what they have, but I am going to outwork everybody.” He can become tougher, more driven, and more relentless than everybody else.

It was a powerful message in a locker room full of people from different backgrounds, different families, and different life experiences. Some guys came from wealth. Some came from almost nothing. Some had every opportunity. Others had to fight for every inch.

But despite all of those differences, everybody still had the same choice.

You can take ownership and use what you have as fuel.

Or you can become victim-minded. You can look for excuses, blame your circumstances, become entitled, and convince yourself that because of what you have—or because of what you do not have—you cannot become what you want to be.

It is not about how you start. It is about what you choose to do with how you start.

The rich kid can waste what he has been given or use it to build something greater. The poor kid can use his circumstances as an excuse or as fuel.

In the end, greatness does not come from starting with more or less. It comes from which person inside of you that you choose to feed.

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