The American Sports Institute is creating a tuition-free, privately-funded, sport and wellness-based school that will generate high academic and high health and fitness scores, and a love of learning for all its students, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Arete School will eventually become a teacher training center for educators in the United States and internationally, and will be a model for California’s and America’s troubled public school system.

A two-semester, interdisciplinary middle and high school academic course that enables students to apply the positive aspects of sport culture and the fundamentals of athletic mastery to their academic, physical, and personal pursuits.

A program for elementary-age students that incorporates the positive aspects of sport culture into the classroom setting to improve attitudes and skills in concentration, self-discipline, personal presence and leadership, responsibility, respect for surroundings, empathy and respect for others, and acting individually and as an integral member of a group.

A 25 to 35-minute daily (or several times a week) program for middle and high school students that incorporates the positive aspects of sport culture into the academic setting to improve attitudes and skills in concentration, self-discipline, personal presence and leadership, responsibility, respect for surroundings, empathy and respect for others, and acting individually and as an integral member of a group.

View the list of conferences at which ASI has made presentations on the role of
sport in educational reform.

The Call of Sport: A Model for Educational Reform — The first-ever forum on the role of sport in educational reform.

Teaching Methodologies — The American Sports Institute co-sponsored and presented at a hearing on educational reform and teaching methodologies before the California State Assembly Education committee.