Jason Cochran

high school algebra teacher and former softball coach

[Coach Hines 🇺🇸 @CoachKurtHines]

IT MATTERS!

Showing up matters

Body language matters

Doing your job matters

Empowering others matters

Eye contact matters

Firm handshakes matter

Giving your all matters

Keeping your word matters

Putting team first matters

EVERYTHING you do matters!

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

COACHES: Coaching isn't just a job or paycheck. It’s a 24/7/365 commitment to positively impact people, make a difference, and change lives forever. It's a way of life that leads to improving other lives. It's taking someone from where they are to where they need to be.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.”

“Well, AI is coming for the coders.”

“It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.”

“In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need 500,000 electricians in the next couple of years—not hyperbole.”

“The BlueForge Alliance, who oversees our maritime industrial base—that’s 15,000 individual companies who are collectively charged with building and delivering nuclear-powered subs to the Navy … calls and says, we’re having a hell of a time finding tradespeople. Can you help?”

“I said, I don’t know, man … how many do you need? He says, 140,000.”

“These are our submarines. Things go hypersonic, a little sideways with China, Taiwan, our aircraft carriers are no longer the point of the spear. They’re vulnerable.”

“Our submarines matter, and these guys have a pinch point because they can’t find welders and electricians to get them built.”

“The automotive industry needs 80,000 collision repair and technicians.”

“Energy, I don’t even know what the number is, I hear 300,000, I hear 500,000.”

“There is a clear and present freakout going on right now. I’ve heard from six governors in the last six months. I’ve heard from the heads of major companies.”

@mikeroweworks

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

One of the biggest issues in education…

The people that make decisions for what is best for students are NOT teachers.
Nor are teachers even asked.

And neither are students/parents.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Teacher retention: if you want to keep the best teachers, treat them like they are the best. Few teachers leave an environment where they feel valued, supported, appreciated, and treated like professionals. This is more important now than ever!

[Help A Teacher @HelpATeacher]

Truth.

[Help A Teacher @HelpATeacher]

Yup.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

“If you’re going and playing to exhaustion, every time you’re out there, it just gives you a chance.” - TJ McConnell

Playing hard is a skill.

It’s controllable.
It’s a choice.

Do you play to exhaustion?

🎥 @OldManAndThree

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[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Tom Brady on Confidence:

“If you don’t believe in yourself why do you think those guys who are looking at you are going to believe in you.”

Confidence is a choice.
So is hesitation.

Your belief sets the tone, for you and everyone around you.

https://t.co/AETdB7NGXr

[Daron Sutton @lifeisgreatsut]

Give me the catcher that pops 1.78, throws 83 from the crouch & runs a 6.9 60. More importantly give me the human that cares the dugout is clean, gathering a dozen bottles & cups that weren't his. Not sure what metric applies there❤️. #DarielCarrión #JrNational @Perfec@PerfectGameUSA

[The Modest Teacher @ModestTeacher]

How about…

No Tax on Teachers.

[Matt Lisle @CoachLisle]

Good coaching looks calm on the surface.

But underneath…it’s adjusting & designing.

It’s not loud, but it’s relentless.

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

The same students who complain about workload dodge every chance they get to do it under the supervision of a classroom teacher.

They don't want less work; they want a room with a computer and no witnesses.

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Schools that protect the poorly behaved at all costs teach every student that there’s no point in trying to do better.

The slippery slope isn’t a fallacy, it’s a description of reality.

[Troy Silva @TroyPSilva]

A Coach’s Role:

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

The FDA has known since 1964 that DMSO could treat “incurable” conditions like blindness and tinnitus.

Instead of embracing it—they banned it. And buried the evidence for decades.

Now, people across the country are rediscovering DMSO—and the results are absolutely jaw-dropping.

This is the powerful, natural healing breakthrough Big Pharma tried to erase from history.

🧵 THREAD

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Teachers are not afraid of failure.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟…

•False accusations

•Not being able to support their own families

•The decline of their own mental health

•Being judged by the actions of bad teachers

•The growing apathy & disrespect from students

[Troy Silva @TroyPSilva]

5 basic steps on how to teach hitting at any level:

1) Identify the hitter’s individual, on-field weaknesses (not off a tee or in a cage)
2) Figure out what the root problem is that causes those issues (a lot of times it’s NOT swing related)
3) Put a simple plan together to work on the root cause with drills and repetitions (it’s a process that takes time)
4) Focus more on what they’re doing right during the process instead of always harping on everything they’re doing wrong (the game beats you up enough already, gotta stay positive)
5) Once they feel confident where they are at, challenge them daily with gamelike speeds, movements and locations to make the games feel easier. (quality challenging repetition creates confidence)

#BaseballTruth

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Perhaps leaving the profession is the only ‘self care’ teachers can practice that actually works. 🤔😐

[Fryedaddy/Frito @shegone03]

I love @WillClark22
“The Thrill” doesn’t mince words when he talks about @Teacherman1986 and the #gurus
We were all taught not to dip our back shoulder but the #gurus love to teach the back shoulder drop chicken wing swing and it’s killing kids futures!
Video courtesy of @NoFilterNet 👊🏻#shegone #RatATatTat
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