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How To Become a NAPMA Continuing Education Contributor As a member of NAPMA, you have an opportunity to share your ideas and insights with other members, as a writer/contributor to NAPMA’s continuing education programs. (It’s also a boost for your ego and your professional reputation at your school, in your community and throughout the industry.) Think of your contribution as giving something back to your fellow members, since they have contributed information and ideas that may have helped you grow your school and serve your students better. Not only does NAPMA need written contributions, but also your recommendations of sales, marketing and/or business authors/experts, whose seminar you may have attended who you think have excellent messages for all NAPMA members. Your recommendations can also include martial arts professionals and instructors with information or teaching presentations that would be appropriate for NAPMA Sounds of Success CD or NAPMA Innovations DVD (See more below). Section One provides an overview of NAPMA’s many continuing education projects. Please read them carefully and review past issues of NAPMA NOW for examples of the kind of reports and materials NAPMA publishes. Section Two presents first-step submission details. Continuing Education Opportunities The Black Belt Report, in most cases, is a “how to” explanation of a business, marketing, sales, management or teaching topic, system or program that most members can incorporate into their schools. Often, the report is based on the first-hand experience of the member contributor who has used that program with success at his or her school. The author of a Black Belt Report can also be an expert or professional in business, marketing, sales, management, law, accounting, etc., with the education, experience and strategies to teach members valuable and practical knowledge. The Black Belt Teaching Report presents a specific drill, with a brief introduction of its purpose and benefits and then step-by-step directions to execute it in any classroom. The best drills have multiple layers of lessons and benefits for students—physical, such as improving balance and endurance; martial arts techniques, such as combinations and effective self-defense methods; mental, such as thinking clearly when stressed; and character development, such as learning to become leaders and role models in the classroom. The G.O.L.D. Team Leadership Report provides strategies and methods for leadership training and staff development, and, often, includes projects, role-playing and testing material to help members develop a staff of leaders and professionals. The contents will also challenge the thinking of head instructors and school owners, opening their minds to new possibilities for their own leadership roles. Contributors of G.O.L.D. Team Leadership Reports typically agree to a long-term collaboration and have senior experience as a successful school owner and have developed and used leadership training in his or her school, successfully, for many years. Words of the Week is a series of character development lessons, based on a single word or concept, and written for both adult and juvenile students. Each of the four lessons explores a different perspective of the featured word, and presents it in a quotation to stimulate students’ thinking. Instructors use the lessons in a group discussion setting, so students can share their thoughts about the “word of the week” and contribute to other students’ understanding of the concept. The Sounds of Success CD typically contains a primary interview by NAPMA President Rob Colasanti with martial arts professionals, business executives, marketing and motivational experts and entertainment celebrities, all of whom have messages to share with NAPMA members that help them become better teachers, leaders, school owners and human beings. The SOS CD will also include a second or third shorter segment with more insightful information and inspiration, as varied as the 2006 Zig Ziglar excerpt and George Alexander’s detailed analysis of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Although the primary interview is often with such notables as Tony Robbins, Evander Holyfield, Brian Tracy and Jean Claude Van Damme, many of Mr. Colasanti’s interview are with NAPMA members whose success, specific program or marketing strategy is an example that could influence and help the majority of members. The NAPMA Innovations DVD strives to present the newest techniques; high-energy, fun drills; and other classroom materials that members can take to their mats, immediately. The DVD will occasionally include a special segment, such as the recent NBC-TV News clip, reporting on the “bystander effect.” Although well-known instructors and school owners present many of the segments, NAPMA welcomes any member’s contribution to the NAPMA Innovations DVD. Since these are video segments, contributors must satisfy certain professional videography and presentation standards. First-Step Submission Guidelines Before writing and submitting any continuing education reports or content recommendations to NAPMA, we suggest that you study and read examples of the reports, listen to the audio segments, and watch the video segments. Once you thoroughly understand the kind of information and materials NAPMA wants to share with all members, then you are more likely to develop a topic for a report or suggest a teaching segment for the NAPMA Innovations DVD that will be published and distributed to the membership. Once you are confident that you have a continuing education contribution that will benefit NAPMA members, then please write a brief description of your idea. Please limit your description to a long paragraph in an email. Send your idea in the body of an email to Bob Sillick, NAPMA senior writer/editor, at napma_editor@yahoo.com. Your idea will be discussed with the appropriate staff members and Mr. Sillick will contact you with detailed submission guidelines and publication schedules. |
