Learn
Age-appropriate progressions, from broad coach-pitch foundations to contextualized individual development.
Development / Planned member experience
Better coaching is
a shared practice.
Ask, discuss, apply, reflect and improve. A video library alone is not a community of practice.
Participate
Coaching cases, practice-plan discussions and member working groups—not just passive content consumption.
Contribute
Help test drills and assessment tools with consent, context and transparent limitations.
Three levels of guidance.
- Education: practical ideas clearly labeled and contextualized.
- Expert consensus: documented recommendations with sources, limitations and contributor disclosures.
- Formal reviewed statements: scoped questions, appropriate evidence methods, external review, approval and maintenance.
A board vote alone does not make opinion scientific evidence. Early outputs should be SICS Practice Recommendations; wider recognition must be earned.
Quality before volume.
Coach membership includes a planned monthly session in each council: eight instructional/discussion sessions and four quarterly Practice Labs per council annually. Resources begin with age-band basics and grow from reviewed prior-year council work. Annual council direction meetings provide a forum for priorities and participation. Public podcast production remains a separate staffing decision—not a live calendar.
Learn from established models. Create our own work.
Alliance’s membership structure, ABCA’s coaching ecosystem, Wenger-Trayner’s communities of practice, ACSM’s evidence discipline and IEEE’s process safeguards inform this design. They are not SICS partners or endorsers. Their content will not be copied without permission.
Read the sourced benchmarking →One international community. Year-round exchange.
All five councils jointly host the planned annual SICS International Baseball Congress, with five position tracks and international presentations. An initial target of two to four smaller in-person events across SICS supplements monthly online learning. Events depend on staffing, hosts and funding; no dates or tickets are available.
International board recruitment, regional advisors, English/Spanish priorities and rotating session times make global participation part of the model.
Congress, smaller events and international structure →