The Black Belt Management Report for April is “How To ‘Schedule’ Your School’s Growth.” A number of members requested this information and the NAPMA staff is quite sure it will benefit many more.

A school schedule is much more valuable than a practical tool. If developed and used correctly, it will actually help you grow your school. In fact, it complements the information in this month’s Sounds of Success CD interview with Tommy Lee. It may be one of the most important school-growth tools for members with 50 to 150 students who want to grow to 300 students.

The report explains that the best strategy is to create a school schedule for 300 students—and then grow into that schedule. The report also addresses such topics as children and adults training together, the number of belt ranks in a class and length of classes.

The sixth installment of NAPMA’s Edge Mixed Martial Arts Program is “Attacks from the Side-Control Position.” Terry Riggs presents a series of drills, with enough variations and options, for more than one Mixed Martial Arts lesson. Use the featured segment on the NAPMA Innovations DVD and the complete curriculum outline on the Media Master CD-ROM to energize your classroom and excite your students.

April’s G.O.L.D. Team Leadership Report is filled with more important ideas and challenges from Tom Callos to share with your G.O.L.D. Leadership Team. “Five Tips For Better Teaching, an Acts of Kindness Challenge, and Some Cool Leadership Resources” starts with a list of teaching tips.

As Mr. Callos explains in “Leave the Dojo and Enter the World,” in which Mr. Callos explains that he doesn’t consider himself a “successful” teacher until he sees the wonderful concepts taught in martial arts manifested in the lives of his students outside the school.

Mr. Callos then recommends a Kindness Day. It’s a contest for your leadership team members to log the most acts of kindness from sunup to sundown.

He then provides four Web sites with new ideas, methods and practices to open your mind and those of your leadership team members, and improve the classroom experience for your students.

Words of the Week shines the spotlight on the word “Trust” this month. NAPMA member Solomon Brenner first presents the concept of self-trust, which can often be a barrier to a student’s goals. Self-trust is having the confidence to defend your decisions and follow your instincts with an “I Can” attitude.

The second lesson explains how to help others improve themselves when you give them responsibilities and they know you trust them.

Use the third lesson to teach your students how important it is to “trust in what you love.” Help your students learn that they don’t have to trade happiness for money or convenience; they can still be successful.

The fourth lesson will enhance any leadership instruction. It emphasizes that the trust of the “leader in the led” and “the led in their leader” is the primary strength of that relationship— without that trust, no one succeeds.