
Just Play Fair! Resources
Forms
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Program Timetable
August/September
- Discuss the value of sportsmanship and citizenship with fall coaches and athletes.
- Create a committee consisting of school administrators, coaches, students/athletes, parents, etc., to develop a mission for the school that ties to the school district mission and discuss how to monitor the sportsmanship and citizenship efforts in your school
- Sponsor an evening assembly for fans of fall sports teams, using school team members, coaches and local officials, to emphasize the rule interpretations and changes for the coming season.
- Talk with your event security staff and public address announcers about their role during contests.
- Send the sportsmanship and citizenship plan to the WIAA office.
- Distribute the brochures and display posters promoting sportsmanship and citizenship.
- Hang the Just Play Fair! banner.
- Send press releases announcing school's involvement in the Just Play Fair! Program.
- Send public service announcements to local radio stations and newspapers.
- Address sportsmanship and citizenship at league meetings.
September/October/November
- Plan a competition between student organizations that promotes sportsmanship and citizenship (poster contest, etc.).
- As fall contests approach, emphasize good sportsmanship and citizenship in school announcements and publications.
- Discuss the value of sportsmanship and citizenship with winter coaches and athletes.
- Develop an editorial for the school newsletter to the public that discusses positive sportsmanship and citizenship efforts (adults or students).
- Sponsor an evening assembly for fans of winter sports teams, using school team members, coaches, and local officials, to emphasize rule interpretations and changes for the coming season.
December/January
- Send out winter public service announcements to local radio stations and newspapers
- Evaluate sportsmanship and citizenship efforts for fall sports.
- As winter contests approach, emphasize good sportsmanship and citizenship in school announcements, assemblies and publications.
January/February/March
- Contact an editor of a local newspaper or host of a local radio or television talk show about an editorial or special program on sportsmanship and citizenship; discuss your school's role in promoting sportsmanship and citizenship.
- Discuss the value of sportsmanship and citizenship with spring sponsors, contestants and parents.
- Sponsor an evening assembly for fans of spring teams, using school team members, coaches and local officials, to emphasize rule changes for the coming season.
- Evaluate sportsmanship and citizenship efforts for winter sports. (See Evaluation Form pg. 10)
April/May
- Send out spring public service announcements to local radio stations.
- Present your sportsmanship and citizenship evaluation program to the community through letters and newsletters that will reach into the home.
- As spring contests approach, emphasize good sportsmanship and citizenship in school announcements and publications.
- Conduct a follow-up sportsmanship and citizenship meeting, evaluating efforts made during the past year and setting goals for the coming year.
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