Expand Your Knowledge Base
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.
Curriculum
Who has the wiggles? Put those wiggles to work so magic can happen in the classroom. Kid-tested and teacher-approved, our age-specific curricula, the Pivot to Play® Playbook, includes everything you need to calm the chaos.
- Basic and Power Packages contain 6-9 months of curriculum.
- 1-2 hours of professional development
- Packages by age
- Power Package includes access to additional bundles of games
Learn more about our curriculum or get yours here.
Professional Development
Getting kids moving is our jam. Helping you get there is our passion. Our presentations have been called “engaging,” “fantastic,” “conference favorite,” “inspiring.” See more here.
Get on our calendar: smartfun@pivottoplay.com.
Extended Online Learning
Can’t get away? Virtual PD
Want online training to beef up your resume? Get our power-packed virtual online professional development. No lesson plans, just the brain science and logic to inspire your classroom. 2 hours of professional development in bite-sized chunks with a certificate upon completion.
Get yours here.
The Foundation for Learning Starts with a Physical Base
Ready to power up your understanding of the power of purposeful play for improved learning and behavior? We have got you covered! This package will be useful for preschool teachers and early elementary teachers. Included in this $12.99 package:
- A short, almost 10-minute power-packed video.
- An audit and short description of the Pivot to Play® Learning Pyramid to help you visualize the power of a moving body for learning success.
- A lesson plan with 5 easy-to-lead and fun-to-play games. These games have all been teacher-approved and have been given the double thumbs up by our friends.
Get yours here.
Design Your Day Timeline
Stumped on how to sneak in some big body play here and there? Our timeline is a critical thinking tool to help you design your day with the maximum results. If you are a visual learner, this might be the ticket!
What do you get in the Preschool Edition?
- An example timeline
- 7 activities to work into the school day that you can put to use NOW
- The lesson plan that accompanies those 7 activities
- 11 movement-based activities
- A blank timeline to help you think outside the box and work your own magic
- The secret behind the gaps and pyramids in education today
Get your preschool edition here.
What do you get in the Elementary School Edition?
- An example timeline
- 9 games and movement-based activities, plus variations, for in and out of the classroom
- Video clips of games in action
- The secret behind the gaps and pyramids in education today
Get your elementary school edition here.
Body Awareness. Where Am I, What Am I doing? FREE
This quick webinar will dive into this important perceptual motor skill and give you key takeaways including:
- What body awareness looks like when it is not well-developed
- What it looks like when it is well developed
- How it impacts the classroom experience
- How it impacts friendship development
- Tips to strengthen body awareness
Get yours here.
Help Others Learn Too
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 yours here.
Find more resources for parents and other adults here.
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.
