Workshops New! Physical Best Workshops Workshops are available as half-day sessions or can be combined into a full-day Physical Best training for K-12 teams and districts. Activities for both workshops align with Physical Best, Fifth Edition, published in March 2026.
Goal Setting in PE —
Health-Related Fitness in PE —
A Physical Best Workshop
A Physical Best Workshop
In this interactive workshop, participants will explore practical ways to teach students how to set, monitor, and reflect on personal fitness and activity goals.
In this interactive workshop, participants will discover how to make fitness in physical education meaningful, inclusive, and engaging for all students.
The workshop emphasizes student ownership, motivation, and growth-minded assessment practices that help learners connect daily participation to lifelong health.
The workshop highlights updated PE standards, hands-on activities, and best practices for assessment, connecting fitness concepts to lifelong health.
Through hands-on activities and discussion, participants will:
Through hands-on activities and discussion, participants will:
Explain the role of goal setting and selfreflection in building student motivation and confidence in physical education; Practice developmentally appropriate strategies for helping students create specific, measurable, and meaningful fitness and activity goals; Experience elementary- and secondarylevel activities that embed goal tracking, self-assessment, and progress monitoring; Design feedback routines that support student agency while honoring diverse abilities, interests, and starting points; Leave with ready-to-use tools for goalsetting collaboration, student reflection, and family communication to support active lifestyles beyond the gym.
Trace the progression of fitness learning from PreK through high school, identifying age-appropriate instructional touchpoints; Describe developmentally appropriate fitness concepts (HRCF, SRCF, FITT) and discuss how these progress through each grade span; Engage in elementary-level and/or secondary-level fitness activities and analyze how a variety of strategies support both skill and concept development; Evaluate current assessment practices in fitness education and justify strategies that are inclusive, sensitive, and supportive of all student abilities and body types; Walk away with ready-to-implement activities and assessment strategies, as well as a clear vision for how fitness education can connect students to health and wellness for life.