New Free Resources Section!

As the start of the school year quickly approaches (or maybe has already started for some of you), questions, uncertainties, worries, and changes are likely to abound. Many of you are also in different situations: some of you are doing virtual PE to the students at home, some of you are in-person, and some of you may have a hybrid learning system in place. Regardless of the top of instruction that you are giving this year, my goal is to provide assistance by providing lesson plans that I have already successfully used for virtual PE lessons, and I will soon be uploading in-school PE lessons with social distancing modifications in place for free!

 I start very soon, and a major change was made to my programming already. I thought that I was going to be teaching my PE classes in person with lots of social distancing. While I believe there is a safe way for me to effectively do this, the decision was made that I teach virtually to classes’ in-person. The students will be in the gym with an adult, and I will Zoom in and give instructions, tips, and tricks on how to play the game and observe through the computer. The adult in the gym will act as the referee and manage the classroom. While I would prefer to be there in person, I will know for sure that these lessons work if they can be played without me physically being in the classroom (similar to how Maria Montessori could leave the classroom and her students would still continue their work).

 I am excited to announce that there are some exciting new changes to the website. On the homepage, there is a new section called “Free Resources,” and you guessed it, everything in this section is free! What you will find in this section are lessons for at-home learning, lessons adapted for Covid-19 era PE for the gym or outside setting, and a more streamlined area to download free samples of lesson plans. I will continue to add lessons to the at-home learning portion as I invent them, but there are already a host of lessons that you can use if you are in the situation that you are teaching remotely. The Covid-19 adapted lessons are a work in progress. I don’t want to add any lesson to that section until I have tested them in my own PE classes (to work out the bugs). Once I have a working version that I feel can be adapted to most indoor or outdoor PE settings, I will include the lesson plan in this section.

 Again, I want to help as many Montessori and PE educators as possible by providing free resources. To support me in this endeavor of providing free content, purchasing my volumes and/or lessons will be most appreciated. While those lessons can’t be used as is, once we “get back to normal,” I know you and your students will love these lessons.

 Thank you for your support, and I wish the best to everyone as we move into uncharted territory this school year. The children, parents, and administrators appreciate your commitment to education, the commitment to your kids, and it will not go unnoticed. However, that’s not why you do what you do. But if you don’t hear it on a daily basis, you are appreciated, your work matters, and you are important to the lives of children and their families. Whatever I can do to help you all with this year to make it as smooth as possible, I will. Good luck everyone.