Engagement is essential in effective health education, yet many classrooms still rely on passive instruction that limits student connection and retention. This session explores how to design and organize interactive health lesson plans that actively involve students through strategies such as simulations, movement-based learning, collaborative challenges, and real-world problem solving. Participants will learn a practical planning framework that aligns objectives, standards, and assessments with engaging instruction, while also addressing scaffolding, time management, and classroom structure. Attendees will leave with ready-to-use ideas, templates, and strategies to increase student engagement while maintaining purposeful, standards-based instruction across a variety of health topics.
Small-sided activities are a key component to successful manipulative activities. This session will equip the attendees with a variety of high energy and challenging activities that can be used in a K-12 setting.
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.
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.
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.
Invasion games are a cornerstone of physical education, yet too often we jump into the game without intentionally teaching the concepts and strategies students need to succeed. This session focuses on spiraling and sequencing skills, building understanding, and designing accessible lead-up activities that invite all students to participate confidently. Participants will explore lead-up games, small-sided challenges, and tactical concepts that make invasion games accessible and enjoyable for all learners.
