Presentations

Pedagogy & Curriculum, Specialist Content Areas, Wellness, Sports & Coaching, Technology in PE, Remote and Hybrid Instruction, Leadership

The International HPE MEd Cohort: What’s it all about?

This session will provide an overview of the benefits of a grad degree as professional learning and outline some available options.
Sports & Coaching, Leadership

Preparing for and Entering the Early Days as an AD

Good PE teachers don't always make good Athletic Directors. It takes much more than just a knowledge of curriculum and sport to run a successful athletic program. Are you in your first year of being an AD? Juggling a dual role in PE and coordinating sports teams? Have aspirations to some day become an AD? Join me for some tips to get ahead of the game before you're in too deep and sinking. If you're an experienced AD, this probably isn't for you, but you're welcome to come along and share as well!
Specialist Content Areas

Adapting Fundamental Floor Skills into Pair and Trio Balances

The Fundamental Gymnastics Shapes are the essential core skills for all Gymnastics lessons. In this hour long workshop we will run through an extensive list of floor shapes demonstrating how they can be incorporated into both Pair and Trio Balances.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Specialist Content Areas

The Latest in Growth, Development, and Sexual Health

During this workshop, we’ll explore the latest in resources to help you address topics such as consent, sexting, and the influence of pornography in an authentic way to help meet your students where they’re at.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Wellness

Interactive Health Education Activities for Grades 7 to 12

This session will explore strategies to support student learning in human sexuality, social and emotional competencies, and mental health. Walk away from this session with concrete ideas that align with Health Education curricula outcomes, including ready-to-use lesson plans and in-class activities.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Wellness, Sports & Coaching, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice, Leadership

Evolution of Physical Education

In this presentation, we will look at examples of how Health and Physical Education from K-10 and sport coaching ‘at the leading edge’ is responding to current challenges.
Experiential Learning

Super Moverz Adventure Play

This presentation will provide teachers with a dynamic new approach to teaching movement and play by integrating storylines, music, specialized equipment, and role play into a fully gamified movement and character building program called Super Moverz.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Sports & Coaching

Visible Thinking in Physical Education and Sports Coaching

This session begins with the premise that 'thinking is the engine of learning' and explores how we can support game-based practical approaches with an environment, intentional questions, and purposeful interactional routines to enhance thinking
Wellness

Why Wellness Matters

Understanding these intertwined threads and how they interact matters for the development and support of healthy school communities where all members can flourish.