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10:00 am Pacific/1:00 PM Eastern

Jorge Rodriguez

The Importance of Play
Description:
Play is essential for human development. In this session we will explore some of the positive effects of play, ways we can include play in schools and how we can encourage our communities to include more opportunities for play.
Objectives:
1) Discuss why play is important to human development.
2) Discuss ways to add play to the school day.
3) Share opportunities to play in the community.

Andrea Haefele

Laura Seckington

Play Beyond The Label #sped #specialneeds #physed

Description:
The workshop will focus on how to provide meaningful integration opportunities in physical education classrooms while providing the appropriate accommodations and modifications necessary to ensure learning and growth for all students.
Objectives:
1) Review knowledge of students’ exceptionalities.
2) Examine HPE curriculum through the lens of special education goal setting.
3) Understand how to provide accommodations and modifications to support student achievement and success.

11:00 am Pacific/2:00 pm Eastern

Dave Carney

Back to School Essentials for PE
Description:
This session will cover the basic knowledge, procedures and technology all elementary physical education teachers should begin their school year with.
Objectives:
1) PE procedures for the first week of school.
2) First week games and warm-ups.
3) How technology can be a game-changer.

Alex Adams

Formative Assessments and Differentiation with Google Forms
Description:
Formative assessment and differentiation are huge buzzwords in education. Learn to easily assess students and automatically receive grades and data to determine what your students’ needs. Learn to differentiate instruction for your students and meet student needs using Google forms. Get a how-to guide and a template for differentiating with Forms.
Objectives:
1) Use Google Forms to provide Differentiated Instruction to their students.
2) Explain why you should be differentiated your instruction in your class.
3) Apply simple add-ons to automate your Google Form so students are not waiting for you to go to next task.

12 Noon Pacific/3:00 PM Eastern

Will Navis

Begin with a Bang
Description:
Let's take a look a 4 ways to start your year off with bang. We will look at Back to School Night, Take Your Parent to PE, Staff Wellness Survey and Goose Chase. These options will give you tech and non-tech methods to highlight your high-quality PE program to your students, families and staff.
Objectives:
1) Participants will gain an understanding of four different options they could use to start their school year.
2) Participants will create or modify a plan utilizing at least one option that the participant will implement at the start of their school year.
3) Participants will share their plan with other participants.

Eric Davolt

Advocacy for Physical Education
Description:
A practical way to advocate for your content area and gain respect from the colleagues, administration, students, and parents of your school.
Objectives:
1) To define advocacy
2) To give real life examples of how to start advocating at any school
3) To explain why advocating is so important

1:00 PM Pacific/4:00 PM Eastern

William Potter

Developing Relationships and Connections in Physical Education
Description:
This session will focus on how to build relationships and connections with your students using a variety of learning activities, communication skills, and team building games.
Objectives:
1) Participants will understand why they should connect with students
2) Participants will be able to create learning environments that foster community
3) Participants will leave with strategies to kick off their year on the right note.

Melinda Wilson

Active Citizenship in Physical Education & Dance

Description:
Education for citizenship is an essential part of securing American democracy, with relevancy outside of social studies and civics. As physical education and dance teachers we are dedicated to developing healthy children and fostering their vision in connecting to other people's lives and caring making them better. Physical education and dance teachers can become leaders in closing the gap between classroom activities and the global needs of society. This session will give physical education and dance teachers strategic agility in implementing active citizenship through dance and physical education. Participants in this session will create an antidote to the needs of their own students and communities.
Objectives:
1) Create active social awareness and politically activated students through physical education and dance.
2) Formulate practical modes of collaboration with students, other teachers, the community, federal and international agencies and organizations.
3) Establish effective relationships with students, teachers, community, federal and international agencies and organizations in solving health-related problems.

2:00 PM Pacific/5:00 PM Eastern

Andrés Olascoaga

Engaging Students in Physical Education, Secrets and Tips

Description:
Engaging techniques that enhance learning and fun trough physical education curriculum planning and execution using The Olascoaga Method
Objectives:
1) Provide tools to build a strong pedagogical curriculum
2) Provide tools of engaging students in doing
3) Exploring new ideas and matching multi-class skill development of students

Melanie Levenberg

Superhero Dances Anyone Can Do - Developing Physical Literacy through Dance
Description:
Simple. Easy. Super FUN! Learn five Superhero-themed dances with moves designed to develop physical literacy and fundamental movement skills. Forget 5-6-7-8 or left foot/right foot choreography, there are only 3 rules to follow in this dance class: Be Positive. Be Fun. Be Yourself as you claim your Bubble of Awesome.
Objectives:
1) Share 5 Dance Routines that Educators can use to develop FMS
2) Showcase an interACTIVE teaching style that keeps students active while learning dance
3) Discuss the importance of purposeful planning with dance and how 3 simple rules can help foster a #growthmindset for students in PE and beyond!

3:00 PM Pacific/6:00 PM Eastern

Andy Hair

Making Impact on your Classroom Teachers with Purposeful PhysEd
Description:
Our role as Physical Educators in our school should not be limited to our own practices. The messages we advocate have deeper impact throughout a child's week. In this session Andy Hair will share secrets of success to increase Physical Education throughout your classroom teachers and further more at home.
Objectives:
1) To understand the purpose of advocating your work
2) To gain a deeper appreciation of the WHY in extra purposeful Physical Education in the week.
3) To provide YOU, the audience, with the power to take control and be a POWER MOVER within your community.

Kennedra Tucker

My Students Don't Look Like Me: Culturally Responsive PE
Description:
A great part of being a physical educator is that we often teach ALL of the students in our school building. It is a wonderful opportunity to learn their culture. In this session, Kennedra will define culturally responsive instruction, explain its importance in a Phys Ed setting and share some activities that she created and adapted in order to value her students culture. Kennedra will also share additional resources for culturally responsive professional development.
Objectives:
1) Participants will be able to define culturally responsive instruction in order to understand its importance in physical education.
2) Participants will be able to learn activities to try in their Physical Education class to value and affirm their students' culture.
3) Participants will be able to obtain professional development information in order to learn more about cultural responsiveness.