Coaches: How do you communicate with your team outside of practice? I use Remind, with mostly success... want to hear others

teamapp

Late night texts and Instagram.

My child's teacher uses Remind. Seems decent.

/old man rant

Kids get so many reminders these days. You used to be able to say it once or give out a schedule and you knew who cared because they paid attention the one or two times there were told about something. Now kids get all these reminders. It's white noise. They don't need to remember anything. They can just look on their phone instead of storing anything in their own heads.

Saturday morning at 9am you should send the kids a Remind text that reads, "Wake the f---- up."

Sunday at noon you should send them one that says, "Get off your a--."

The kids who need Remind are probably the unmotivated ones.

/end old man rant

I use regular email.

epicTCK wrote:

teamapp

+1 for teamapp. Used to just maintain my own email lists but kids don't check their email anymore and parents don't read them anyway.

Shoebacca wrote:

My child's teacher uses Remind. Seems decent.

/old man rant

Kids get so many reminders these days. You used to be able to say it once or give out a schedule and you knew who cared because they paid attention the one or two times there were told about something. Now kids get all these reminders. It's white noise. They don't need to remember anything. They can just look on their phone instead of storing anything in their own heads.

Saturday morning at 9am you should send the kids a Remind text that reads, "Wake the f---- up."

Sunday at noon you should send them one that says, "Get off your a--."

The kids who need Remind are probably the unmotivated ones.

/end old man rant

Ha, agreed (and I'm not even an old man). I work an appointment-based job my school, and I am baffled by how many of my fellow students seem to find "let's meet every Wednesday at 4pm" to be an incomprehensibly confusing plan.

Because a better offer might come along...

We use email. Seems pretty easy to me.

I use Facebook and Twitter and my

Functions great.

Shoebacca wrote:

My child's teacher uses Remind. Seems decent.

/old man rant

Kids get so many reminders these days. You used to be able to say it once or give out a schedule and you knew who cared because they paid attention the one or two times there were told about something. Now kids get all these reminders. It's white noise. They don't need to remember anything. They can just look on their phone instead of storing anything in their own heads.

Saturday morning at 9am you should send the kids a Remind text that reads, "Wake the f---- up."

Sunday at noon you should send them one that says, "Get off your a--."

The kids who need Remind are probably the unmotivated ones.

/end old man rant

Lol, I agree w every word of this.

Fwiw, I only use it to send out the weekly practice/meet schedule and for last minute changes (such as snow days... cuz we cancel school for that kinda stuff down here)

As a captain, I rely on Snapchat most of the time, but group texts occasionally. My coach uses remind though.