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The Pivot to Play® Purposeful Play Training
If you are an elementary or preschool teacher, PE, Movement, or Creative Movement teacher in preschool or elementary school, then you are in the right place. This training is easy to digest and logical. Riddled with data and studies, this training delivers a powerful punch.
We guide your learning logically, then power it up with the tools you need to succeed, including tips on spotting weaknesses, games to play to strengthen those weaknesses, and tips and tricks to easily incorporate big body, physical play into your program or your day.
Learn more here.
The Pivot to Play® LAUNCH KIT
You don’t need a gym. You don’t need a dedicated block of time. You need 5–10 intentional minutes a day and the right tools.
Grab any one piece without the others and you’re missing most of the power.
Get the whole system — and everything clicks. What is in the Launch Kit?
- The Movement Scan tells you WHERE to start
- The Game Cards are WHAT you do
- The Scheduling Tool shows you WHEN to do it
- The Data Tracking proves it’s WORKING
- The Parent Templates keep families informed and supportive
- The Student Feedback lets kids guide the process
- None of these pieces work in isolation. They’re designed to function as a system.
By the way: The Data Tracking Tool alone is worth the investment if you’ve ever had to justify movement to an administrator. 272 auto-calculating formulas. Real data. Real results. Undeniable proof.
Find out what teachers who have used the Launch Kit have to say and get yours here.
The Play Powered Classroom: Building a Mental Map for School Success
How can it be that movement helps kids sit still? It seems like a contradiction, right? Especially when I tell you that I do NOT mean running them to get their ya-yas out so they can sit still and behave. Nope. Don’t mean that at all. Instead, I mean that movement is essential to building the skills and strengths children need to find stillness in their minds and bodies and understanding where the body is and what it is doing with an accurate mental map plays an essential role in this.
Included:
- 19 minute video on the power of the proprioceptive system and it’s connection to body awareness to ignite classroom success
- Proprioceptive weaknesses checklist
- Body awareness weaknesses checklist
- Games to build both proprioceptive development and body awareness that you can use now
Get yours here.
Top 5 Movement-Based Transitions
You are going to crush transitions this year! Don’t fear them, POWER them.
Whether you teach preschoolers or elementary-aged kids, we have got you covered.
Learn more and get Preschool Transitions here.
Learn more and get Early Elementary School Transitions here.
Learn more and get 4th and 5th Grade Transitions here.
The Mini Play-Powered Classroom Implementation Guide: Smart Kids Do WHAT??
Research shows that children need to move every 15-20 minutes to maintain focus. When we build movement INTO our management strategies instead of treating it as a disruption, we work with children’s natural needs rather than against them.
The Play-Powered Classroom strategy is simple: get the moving intentionally and see real results: behavior, attending, learning, and JOY!
What do you get in this mini implementation guide?
- Activity ideas for
- Reset movements
- Brain breaks
- Focus movements
- Movement and learning
- Transitions
- Emergency Resets
- 26 activities in all
- A sample schedule to help you bring it into reality
- Implementation tools and tips
- Common challenges and how to tackle them
Get your Preschool Guide here.
Get your Elementary School guide here.
Parent Bundles
Our Parent Bundles are downloadable handouts or attachments that you can share with your children’s families. Reproduce as many times as you want or need. Our bundles are designed to help you help them learn what they don’t yet know: moving and physical play make school easier.
Get your Parent Bundle 1 here.
Get your Parent Bundle 2 here.
Free resources
Books
If Broccoli Were a Cookie Cookbook
Preschoolers are notorious for saying “YUCK!” to new foods, but that doesn’t mean they might not like getting messy making something new and in the process, tasting their handiwork. “If Broccoli Were a Cookie” is a collection of recipes that have been successfully replicated for more than a decade with hundreds of picky preschoolers. Incorporating math, language, science and social studies, we share our tips and tricks to engage young minds and small hands in the magical art of cooking.
Recipes designed to help expand kids’ palates one teaspoon at a time. Pulled from our vault of gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free snacks, these recipes are designed to spark conversations that include tasting, counting, language arts, science, and math.
Get yours here.
123…Kindergarten! Snack-sized tidbits to help prepare preschoolers for elementary school, by Preston Blackburn
Why 123…Kindergarten? Most human brain growth happens in the early years before age 5 when children use their bodies to explore the world, laying neural wiring for social, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive success. In other words, the more children move, the more connections then make, the stronger the connections, and the more their brains understand how to use their bodies for school. Children’s bodies and brains crave this kind of movement int he form of big-body, physical play.
Whether you have a 2-year-old, a 5-year-old or something in between, Kindergarten is in their future. Getting ready for what lies ahead in the world of elementary excitement and learning is important, particularly at this crucial stage.
123 K is filled with snack-sized tools to get kids moving to support a world of learning by honing specific strengths for holding a pencil or sitting comfortably at a desk to motor patterns needed to support language and math.
Get your copy here.
