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Education Resource

Free Download: Developmental Chart

This early gymnastics developmental chart is a great reminder for both staff and parents of upcoming milestones. Download your free print-out now!

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Resource Staffing

Free Download: Employee Onboarding Checklist

Get a free employee onboarding checklist to help grow your business! We know that hiring can be a time-consuming process. And with the high turnover that comes with some of our businesses it can really be an ongoing process.  Use our simple onboarding checklist to streamline your hiring process. Give the checklist to each staff […]

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Business Education

Five Things I Learned from Flipping Education

Meeting Linda & Brant I can’t remember exactly the first time I met Linda Thorberg and Brant Lutska of Flipping Education. What I do remember is that I was immediately hooked. Every time I heard they were coming to do a seminar nearby, I made sure to attend.  By now, I’ve attended at least a […]

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Business

Prepare for Inclusion

We spend a lot of time thinking about how to include children with special needs in our classes – how do we make it a fun, safe, and educational experience for them? Dr. Robin Pearson is a special education coach specializing in gymnastics and shared with us some great tips! Prepare for Inclusion Guest Post […]

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Business Education

Summer Summits & Conferences

Why attend a conference? Attend a conference in order to network with people in your industry, learn something new and get inspired. I find that the summertime is the best time to renew and rejuvenate before the crushing weight of fall registrations and a new season approaches. There is something about the long days and […]

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Business

How to Find Your Perfect Customer

So, you’ve decided to start your own children’s activity business. You filled out the legal paperwork so that your business is officially incorporated. You put down a deposit for the location, started recruiting prospective hires for your team, and began gathering equipment. Now the important part. How do you find customers? Better yet, how do […]

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Business

Finding the right fit: buying leotards for your Rec Program

“From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was “always done” in a certain way, we’d do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.” Paul Newman The first time I ordered leotards for our gymnastics program, I Googled “design your own leotard.” A few companies popped up and […]

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Staffing

How to Hire The Right People for Your Children’s Gym

Finding the right people to run your business is tough. Perhaps the worst part of this process is losing that key employee that took so long to find. As a fellow entrepreneur puts it:  Your staff gets trained, they start to perform well, and then they leave… it’s like a “Thanks and see ya!” At […]

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Education

How To Include Children With Special Needs in Your Gymnastics Program

Guest Post by Ashley Lebeau At the Champaign Gymnastics Academy (CGA) we believe that gymnastics truly is a sport for everyone.  We have made steady progress over the last seven years since our inception to find ways to serve our special needs community.  As more funds, staff and other resources became available we have employed […]

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Business

Recreational Director Summit: The Biggest Problems for Children’s Program Providers… And How to Solve Them

As children’s activity providers, we have unique solutions to everyday problems. However, we rarely get to collaborate and see how others solve those problems. Last weekend we went to the Recreational Director Summit held by Ali Stoffels at Rec Gym Pros.  Twenty-eight passionate directors and managers sat together to brainstorm, collaborate, and learn from one […]