John Harbaugh household launches the Harbaugh Teaching Academy

No household has risen to the next profile within the present period of school and NFL soccer just like the Harbaugh household has. Now, John and Jim Harbaugh are increasing their attain.

John Harbaugh and the Baltimore Ravens introduced the launch of the Harbaugh Teaching Academy Tuesday. The venture is spearheaded by John but additionally joined by Jim, the Los Angeles Chargers head coach who received final 12 months’s faculty soccer nationwide championship with Michigan, in addition to their father, longtime faculty soccer coach Jack Harbaugh, and their brother-in-law, former Marquette and Indiana faculty basketball coach Tom Crean.

The academy is a non-profit on-line useful resource middle that provides a plethora of teaching instruments and ideas for instructors of all ranges,” together with “youth, highschool and faculty coaches” in addition to “schoolteachers, health club instructors, mentors and fogeys.”

“The Harbaugh Teaching Academy has really been in growth since we have been children,” John Harbaugh mentioned in an announcement. “HCA was born of 1000’s of teaching classes discovered over time. It is a fruits of many years of teaching expertise, working with coaches and leaders dedicated to empowering different coaches who intention to have a higher impression on youth efficiency and well-being — whatever the sport.”

The HCA will function quite a few items of free video content material on its web site, HarbaughCoachingAcademy.org, from notable NFL and faculty soccer coaches and a few present NFL gamers, most with ties to the Harbaughs. The movies embrace numerous interviews with a few of soccer’s greatest names in teaching, together with Andy Reid, Sean McVay, Tony Dungy and Dick Vermeil. It additionally showcases behind-the-scenes movies from contained in the Ravens locker room which have by no means been publicly proven earlier than.

Different subjects embrace inspirational speeches, and psychological well being teaching and management coaching. Themes embrace “Non-Confrontational Confrontation,” “Security in Soccer,” “Easy methods to Construct Psychological Toughness in Younger Athletes,” “Constructing a Workers.” Six-time Tremendous Bowl champion Invoice Belichick can be a featured speaker, and spoke on the academy’s launch panel alongside John and Jack Harbaugh on the Ravens’ facility Tuesday. (Jim additionally briefly joined through zoom from the Chargers’ facility on the opposite aspect of the nation.)

“There’s nothing fairly like HCA on the market to assist and encourage in the present day’s coaches to be their finest,” John mentioned. “Our purpose is to share the knowledge and experiences of remarkable coaches and leaders with those that wish to be taught from them. Collectively, we will attain and empower extra folks for good than we may on our personal.”

John is getting into his seventeenth 12 months as Baltimore’s head coach, having received a Tremendous Bowl with the group in 2012. His brother Jim, who John received the Tremendous Bowl towards that 12 months when Jim was teaching the San Francisco 49ers, was lately employed by the Chargers after his faculty soccer nationwide title triumph together with his alma mater, Michigan, final season.

“I am proud to work alongside my household on the Harbaugh Teaching Academy,” Jim said. “I am delighted we will share what we have discovered with different coaches, of all ranges, to assist them develop and mentor younger athletes.”

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