Providing your students and their families a place where they feel accepted, empowered, valued, and supported is essential for developing a student's fullest potential. A martial arts school, academy, dojo, should be more than merely a place to train. It should be a place where families come together to share in fellowship and community with one another.
To affect significantly positive and lasting change in your students they must first feel as though they belong to a community. A community that is positive, reaffirming, and whose members push, encourage, and mentor one another. A place where students hold themselves and each other accountable, and not enablers of each other's dysfunctional behaviors.
Developing a culture of community within your school and among your students, families, and teaching staff is not just necessary, but an obligation. The true measure of a school's success is not simply in its student's technical prowess. Rather it is the caliber of human being that walks out your door!
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