They are bridging skills that connect sport lessons to real life.
His set included rappers (Lord Nez and Akim Kuzma-Bartz, Mr. Bartz's son), two-saxophone improvisations (with Rene McLean) and long drafts of his improvising over a straight-ahead jazz rhythm section, a kind of demonstration of how to connect the lessons of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.
To help children assume responsibility for their own behavior and academic record, he said, teachers should develop "caring relationships" with students, sign contracts binding both teacher and pupil to certain standards of behavior and performance, connect all lessons to everyday experiences and never give a failing grade.
Eventually, they do start to connect and lessons are learned.
The Manhattan School of Music, the first conservatory to have a videoconferencing program, has also had success with online music lessons, connecting with musicians as far away as Germany and teaching young students in underserved public schools around New York.
In a fireside chat at the HAX M&A Masterclass that followed the publication of his book: Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World, Chambers issued a clear warning: learn about tech M&As or the future might happen without you.
In a class called Product Knowledge, a freshman basic in which students are drilled on the differences between daikon and lobok radishes, John Zearfoss recently managed to connect his lesson to the death of Socrates from hemlock and to the book he is writing about wild vegetables.
And, I try to connect this lesson to the first one.
"The past is trying to teach a lesson, connecting Scripture to our daily lives," he added.
It was also a history lesson, connecting today's humble plumbers to an innovation that changed Americans' lives and remains one of the more elegant engineering solutions to the problem of winter.
