Students who met Roslyn’s Elementary School’s “March Reading Madness” reading initiative goals attended a basketball clinic run by the Abington High School Boys’ & Girls’ Varsity Basketball Teams today. The Galloping Ghosts basketball teams visited Roslyn to promote the importance of reading along with academic and extracurricular goal-setting. The high school team members reviewed the importance of setting academic goals with the students and distributed a form to help Roslyn students create SMART goals – goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound.
Abington Senior High School Varsity Head Coaches, Charles Grasty (a 1990 Abington alumnus and teacher at the high school) and Dan Marsh (teacher at Abington Junior High School) and their basketball teams spoke to the Roslyn students about their love of reading, the importance of goal-setting with regard to academics as well as extracurricular activities, and the benefits of teamwork. The teams then ran a mini-basketball clinic for students in grades 5 and 6 who reached their reading goals in the “March Reading Madness” program. They also distributed very popular player trading cards that feature the titles of the basketball players’ favorite children’s books.
