Bring the energy of the world’s game into your PE program with Soccer for Success in School—a standards-aligned curriculum designed to help teachers deliver high-quality, engaging soccer experiences for all students. This training provides ready-to-use lessons, skill progressions, and classroom management strategies that build confidence, teamwork, and fundamental movement skills across grade levels. Walk away with practical tools, adaptable activities, and a clear pathway to confidently teach soccer while creating inviting, high engagement experiences your students will love.
Come explore how using everyday objects in unexpected ways can spark creativity, playfulness, and meaningful movement. By reimagining what “counts” as equipment, participants will experience how props can shift the focus from individual performance to shared exploration, connection, and engagement. This session is intentionally designed to include something for all grades! Grounded in the Meaningful Physical Education (MPE) framework, this session explores how reimagining the purpose of materials can help us design environments where students feel more comfortable, more creative, and more willing to engage in movement in their own ways.
Are you looking for dynamic and useful activities that will instantly energize your program? Then this sessions is for you. This session will feature highly engaging activities that you will want to use next week, and your students will be asking for on a regular basis. In this session, you will learn instant activities, main skill focused activities, as well as fun and novel assessment pieces. This is designed for a K-12 audience.
Bring the energy of the world’s game into your PE program with Soccer for Success in School—a standards-aligned curriculum designed to help teachers deliver high-quality, engaging soccer experiences for all students. This training provides ready-to-use lessons, skill progressions, and classroom management strategies that build confidence, teamwork, and fundamental movement skills across grade levels. Walk away with practical tools, adaptable activities, and a clear pathway to confidently teach soccer while creating inviting, high engagement experiences your students will love.
This session develops group dynamics, connections, teamwork, problem solving and trust-building skills through OPEN’s Adventure Learning lessons and Believe In You leadership resources. Activities are designed around the concepts of connection, trust, creativity, and energy which give physical educators adventurous ways to engage students.
Games are more than just fun. They are one of the best ways we can connect with every student in our class. In this session, we’ll look at how to use games on purpose, not just to play, but to teach. We’ll focus on how games can support the whole child, including social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth, while helping you build a class environment that feels inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. You’ll walk away with simple ways to choose, modify, and assess activities so all students can be successful.
Every teaching decision is shaped by a frame—whether we are aware of it or not. This session invites participants to examine how implicit and explicit frames influence planning, instruction, and assessment in physical education. Using Meaningful Physical Education (MPE) as a lens, participants will consider how an intentional frame can bring coherence and clarity to everyday decision-making.
Join us for this activity-based session where you’ll discover practical strategies and engaging lessons designed to boost your classroom culture. You'll leave with fresh ideas to promote belonging, build leadership skills, and create stronger connections within your classroom. This session focuses on instructional strategies that support every student. Learn how to implement differentiated instruction and "challenge by choice" approaches to ensure inclusive participation and growth for all learners. Discover ways to embed leadership skills into your activities and empower students to take on meaningful roles. You'll leave with strategies to build classroom culture, where students feel seen, valued, and connected - because when students belong, they thrive.
Help kids and teens navigate roadway safety. Bicycle and pedestrian safety is a learned skill — and early education makes a difference. PennDOT has developed materials that incorporates proven tools and strategies for teaching bicycle and pedestrian safety at key developmental stages, helping young people build lifelong habits that reduce risk, and increase independence. Participants will learn instructional strategies that combine classroom discussion, video, and interactive activities to reinforce lifelong safety habits. The session will provide implementation guidance, lesson planning tools, and practical tips for launching VRU safety education programs in rural, suburban, and urban communities.
"Unconventional Fun: A Session of Non-Traditional Games" invites participants to step outside the box and engage in a variety of exciting, offbeat games that break the mold of typical team-building exercises. Whether it's a quirky twist on classic sports or completely new creations, this session encourages creativity, collaboration, and a lot of laughs. Designed to get everyone moving, thinking, and bonding, these games provide a refreshing and fun way to energize teams, spark connections, and build trust in a lively, relaxed environment. Get ready for a playful and memorable experience!
