Over the last 15 years, Steve Mesler has led a number of different teams, including the first American team to win Olympic gold in the 4-man Bobsled in 62 years. Now he wants to help you with your leadership skills! These resources will help you to build your team and culture, what you can do to guide yourself and your team through adversity, how to identify what success looks like, how to match your visions of success against your current realities, how to develop your own strategies to deliver feedback to your team, and methods to re-brand yourself through feedback.

Leadership Resources for Educators

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Healthy living is a series of individual choices made every day. This includes a balanced diet, plenty of water, daily exercise, the right amount of sleep, and making courageous decisions. Challenge your students to make healthy choices with the help of these fun recipes for them to try.

Recipe Book

Help your students brainstorm acts of kindness that they could carry out, then challenge them to carry out as many as they can.

Kindness Resource

Sometimes, we just need a boost of motivation -- an encouraging word or kind reminder. Ask your students if there is a saying, expression, or mantra that they can repeat to themselves when they need some inspiration. Have them write it down and keep it somewhere they can see it as a reminder.

My Mantra

Challenge your students to come up with a reading goal, then have them write it down on this bookmark. They'll never lose their page and will know when they've reached their goal!

Bookmark

Our collection of free printable crossword puzzles for your students is an easy and fun way for them to work on their vocabulary.

Crossword Puzzle

Help your students to take few minutes to write down some breathing techniques, to draw their very own calm corner and to recognize those people who are there for them.

Self Care Resource

Classroom Champions athlete mentors often talk about how they create and track healthy living goals. Help your students create some healthy choices and have them keep track of them on this graph.

Healthy Choices

This resource will help you to consistently practice mindfulness, try different techniques and find what works for you, take time to reflect on your day and what emotions you felt throughout it, and see what emotions are most consistent within your day to day.

Mindfulness Resource for Educators

Help your students brainstorm strategies to help manage their various emotions. Whether it’s counting backwards from 10 or taking long, deep breaths, students can assemble their wheel and keep it handy for when they need it.

Emotions Wheel

3x-Olympian and Classroom Champions Co-Founder, Steve Mesler, recently wrote a letter to all Classroom Champions students. However, something happened and the letter is full of punctuation and grammatical errors. Can your students find all the mistakes?

Punctuation Resource

Being thankful is a characteristic we should practice year round, not just during the holiday season. Help your students identify what they appreciate about their surroundings with these two engaging activities.

Thankfulness Resource

How one teacher’s 10 year journey with Classroom Champions is shaping student leaders through mentorship and the Champion Mindset.

One Teacher. Ten Years. A Thousand Wins: The Christina Stone + Classroom Champions Story

When Natalie Stuart shared her love for the “gold medal mentality” on social media, she never expected it to connect her students with a real Olympian. Through Classroom Champions, her class was paired with gold medalist Jackie Dubrovich as their mentor, guiding them through lessons on perseverance and goal setting. The experience left a lasting impact, inspiring students to set goals and embrace challenges like true champions.

How Classroom Champions Transformed My Fifth-Grade Classroom: A Teacher’s Journey

Building a thriving classroom community is more than just achieving academic goals; it’s about creating an environment where students feel connected, supported, and engaged.

Fostering Strong Classroom Communities: The Power of Memorable Traditions

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