Beat the Streets Blog
Welcome to the Beat the Streets blog, a labour of love crafted by BTS staff, consultants, guest writers, and program participants. Based in Toronto, we focus on youth development programs, charity initiatives, and empowering active and healthy youth through sports and skill-building programs. Discover insightful articles on fitness, training, health, wellness, employment empowerment, program updates and the impactful stories that shape our journey.
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How Can You Implement Social-Emotional Learning in Your Life and Classroom?
With all the information we’ve talked about in regards to social-emotional learning .. how exactly can you implement it into your daily life? Click to read about the ways you can easily involve activities that will help you become a more resilient, confident, and active person.
How Does Beat The Streets Involve Social-Emotional Learning In Its Programs?
Social-emotional learning is at the forefront of our programs here at Beat The Streets Toronto. How exactly do we incorporate it into our learning and how does it make you into a more confident, active, and resilient person?
What are the short-term and long-term benefits of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
Social-emotional learning (SEL) gets a lot of focus in our programs—but just exactly what are the benefits of it and how long do these benefits stick around for? Fortunately, SEL is evidence-based and has been proven to have long-term effects decades down the road in a child’s development, making SEL programs a valuable investment for the future and development of our youth and children.
What is Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and why is it important?
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is mentioned a lot around here at Beat The Streets. What exactly does it mean, and why is it central to our programs?
Top 10 Job Skills for 2025
The World Economic Forum released the top 10 skills for 2025, and you might be surprised to find out most of them are “soft skills”.
Jumpstart State of Sport Report
In September 2020, Jumpstart launched their $8 million Sport Relief Fund, a fund dedicated to helping sport and recreation organizations continue to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) at Beat the Streets
BTS provides Social-emotional learning opportunities throughout all of its programs. Read more to find out why it is important to the positive development of children and youth.
BTS Executive Director Neal Ewers on #engage416 podcast
Coach Neal Ewers talks to Toronto Police Services about his journey and Beat the Streets on episode 3 of the Project #engaged416 Podcast.
Social emotional learning during the pandemic
Globe & Mail opinion peice discussing how kids are falling behind in school due to the pandemic and potential solutions like social-emotional learning.
Hard Skills Versus Soft Skills: What’s the Difference?
Marijana discusses the different skills set, and the importance of building soft skills, like decision-making to help us build resilience.
What does W.R.E.S.T.L.I.N.G Mean?
What does W.R.E.S.T.L.I.N.G really mean? What does it stand for? Find out if you have what it takes to live up to the name of the sport
A Change For The Girls
Read how wrestling has changed my life, and how our new program You Grow Girl can be helpful to our young females. “If a co-ed wrestling program helped me gain confidence, imagine what an all-girls program can do!” -Arely Torales
Girls today, Women tomorrow
Blog about why programs like You Grow Girl is needed in our society.
My Inspiration
There are inspirational women all around us, but the first one that comes to mind is my mother. Women who inspire other women is truly amazing, and essential to creating powerful women.
How You Grow Girl Can Make You Greater Physically And Mentally
The You Grow Girl program can make you stronger and a better person mentally whether it is becoming more confident with yourself, learning better discipline, or having good mutual respect for your fellow athletes and coaches.
Types of Coaching Styles
There are many types of ways to coach a team and different styles to use. In this blog Arely tales about some of the styles, there are to coaching.
My Favourite Tournament
Learn about my favourite wrestling tournament based on my experience, what I learned and the wrestling itself.
Ten Reasons your Child should Wrestle : Wrestling in Toronto
If you’re looking for a sport to do or put your child in that will teach him/her great life skills and get them physically fit – then wrestling may be just the sport for you!
10 things to know before attending post-secondary. Part 1
tips for incoming Post-secondary students. Part 1