You can thank two teachers for the Dallas Cowboys being 11-4 this year. The teachers, one a former HS Biology teacher and the other a professor of Digital Strategy and Innovation were hired by the Dallas Cowboys to teach their coaching staff how to teach/coach their players when the team was forced to go virtual during Covid outbreaks this year. The team was caught flatfooted last year with all the Covid outbreaks and missed the playoffs so they did not want that to happen again.

The teachers taught the coaches the following: long videos should be shown in short chunks, long meetings whether virtual or in-person should be shorter and given to smaller groups to alleviate the problem of players/students spacing out and being bored, and to minimize outside distractions, like family and children being nearby.

If you’re a teacher this should all sound familiar because this is what we try to do every day to prevent our students from being bored and to maximize the amount they can learn. Perhaps you should send your resume to an NFL team and teach them things that you do every day and make a heck of a lot more money!