Crazy-Proofing High School Sports examines the often troubling high school sports phenomenon in two parts. Part one focuses on the problems facing educators, students, and parents as they struggle to make high school sports worthwhile. Few if any strategies for improvement in education are effective without first knowing what the real reasons are for failure. Part two offers solutions for "crazy-proofing" high school sports. Schools have everything needed to accomplish great feats via high school sports participation, and now is the time for our educators to be the experts in their field. Written in a language educators can understand, and with stories everyone associated with high school sports will recognize, Crazy-Proofing High School Sports offers real solutions to the real problems hurting high school student athletes.

By John Elling Tufte

Part One: Where Schools Are - The problem is, we don't know what the problems are.
Chapter One: Passion
Chapter Two: Purpose
Chapter Three: Relationship and Communication Quality
Chapter Four: SuccessPart Two: Where We Need To Go - Educators have everything needed to improve high school sports.
Chapter Five: Knowing What Needs to be Done
Chapter Six: Having Control, Assigning Roles, and Owning our Profession
Chapter Seven: Teaching Perspective
Chapter Eight: Reestablishing the "School" in High School Sports
Supplemental Pages: Suggestions for Parents