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Kings Junior High students showcase sports-management elective and student-run athletics media
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Students and teachers from Kings Junior High demonstrated a sports management and business elective — now the most requested junior-high elective — highlighting student projects from journalism and coaching portfolios to entrepreneurship pitches and a student-run athletics Instagram account that the school says will boost school spirit and practical career skills.
Kings Junior High students and staff presented projects Tuesday night that school leaders say demonstrate the district’s emphasis on "student voice" and career-connected learning.
Assistant Principal Caleb Keaton described the new sports management and business elective as an initiative to expose students to careers tied to athletics while building the district’s so-called Power 5 skills. "We were looking at some of our data with our electives and our requests... and we came up with this sports entrepreneurship or sports management and business class," Keaton said, describing the class as an "extra PE elective" that has become the most requested junior-high elective.
Dylan McKinney, who teaches the course, said the class covers…
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