Sharing Practice with the #PhysEd Community: Upcoming Events

I was lucky enough to be invited by a good friend of mine, Glenn Young to present as part of the Surrey School’s Engaging the Digital Learner dinner series. I will be presenting a short 5 minute Ignite session to over 200 educators and administrators from all over the Surrey School District.
I will use this Ignite session to share how physical educators all over the world are using technology to give their students a 21st century education. While this event is purely for teachers within the district you can follow along by following the #sd36learn hashtag and I will aim to post a video of the talk once it has been uploaded. [UPDATE: You can view it above.]
I am super excited to share this presentation with so many teachers, many of whom are not physical educators, and to advocate and celebrate the fantastic work that is being done within the #PhysEd community to give our students an education for tomorrow.

After the recent #pechat on Inquiry Based Learning Another great friend of mine, Naomi Hartl, asked me if I would be interested in sharing my knowledge on inquiry based learning in physical education as part of SPARK’s monthly webinar series.
So on Wednesday March 25 (3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern – use everytimezone.com if you are confused) I will be sharing:

• What Inquiry Based Learning is and how it can be applied in a variety of PE and physical activity environments.
• How to promote a culture of critical thinking by utilizing various ‘thinking routines.”
• Where Inquiry Based Learning examples have been used successfully alongside standards-based grading.

You can find out more information about this webinar by going to http://www.sparkpe.org/physical-education-resources/webinars/ and to attend you can register here.

Note: If you can not attend this webinar, don’t worry as a recording of it will be posted shortly after it takes place.

After missing out on last years conference in Zug & Luzern there was no way that I was going to miss this years edition in Munich. The thing I love so much about this conference is that it is organised by teachers, for teachers and their motto is “Teachers Teaching Teachers.”
The other reason I am super excited about this conference is the fact that I will finally get to meet in person two of my favourite team #PhysEd members, Joey Feith & Andy Vasily. Just the thought of being in the same room as these two guys makes me super excited for the conversations that we are going to have, no doubt over a few of Bavaria’s most famous product. At ECIS PE I will be presenting:

• A Keynote called “It’s Time to Change the Game”
• A practical hands on workshop: Technology in #SportEd: Documenting Student Learning & Achievement
• A session for ES & MS teachers entitled “Game On, Brain On”

Unless you are in Europe it might be too late to register to attend but you can follow the #ECISPE hashtag and keep up to date with all the action.

If you only ever go to one physical education event in your life; make it the PE Institute in 2015. Artie Kamiya has gathered the worlds best #physed professionals in one place at one time for Physical Educations Grandest Event.
I can not tell you how lucky I feel to have been asked by Artie to be a keynote at this event and already know it will be a highlight in not only my #physed career but my life.
Do whatever it is you need to do to make sure you get to this event. I promise you that you won’t be disappointed.
Go ahead and register here.