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...While Velez describes Giribet as an “excellent teacher,” what most impresses him is Giribet’s abundance of energy. “He’ll wake up before everyone and go running, and then still get more done throughout that day than anyone else. When everyone is dog-tired from scuba diving and collecting and identifying organisms, he’s still awake working. We’ll all go to bed at eleven and he’ll stay up until one…and then still wake up before...
...first teacher was elderly,” said Oppenheimer’s mother, Tamar, in a phone interview, “and I think [Tal] was afraid of her. But that was her first tap teacher, and she was amazing...
...teacher was having some knee problems and had to go through a recovery period,” Oppenheimer says. “[The teacher] had Sam [Weber], and he would teach her classes, and I would go to every class he was teaching, regardless of the level. When he left, I would...
WSSA was founded by physical-education teacher Bob Fox, who noticed how a simple hand-eye coordination drill could inspire students to compete against each other--and themselves--by improving their times. When he started offering after-school stacking workshops in 1995, the response was astonishing. "You would get a couple dozen students for a workshop on basketball or juggling, but with stacking, there were 200 kids," he recalls. Fox says his company, Speed Stacks, which charges $30 for an individual set of cups, mat and timer, has annual revenues of $4 million...
Stack fast enough and you can break a sweat. John Taylor, a PE teacher in Ohio, says he now integrates cup-stacking into more than half his classes, often as an incentive to get kids to participate in more-rigorous activities. "We have a relay where students will run 10 yards, then stack a pyramid," he says. "It makes exercise more fun for them." Can an Olympic debut be far behind...