Bringing Feeling Into Physical Education: A Presentation
From October 17th, 2020, a month into the school year and six months into the COVID pandemic. SLIDESHOW PDF
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Christine Ruffolo
Oct 25, 20204 min read
The Social Element & Play
This is the third in a series of real-time, as it happens articles about leading online Physical Education. [Part one can be found here. ...
Christine Ruffolo
Oct 10, 20203 min read
Pause & Keep Listening
Some quick context about the current teaching/ learning parameters of Distance Learning for the district I work for. 1. Block classes...
Christine Ruffolo
Sep 16, 20203 min read
How I Accidentally Got Invited to the Embodiment Summit
I received an email from Daniela Welzel, whom I do not know. It was obviously of the bulk variety, not even a name in the greeting, and...
Christine Ruffolo
Feb 13, 20204 min read
The Brilliance Behind Bal-A-Vis-X
The following video drummed up tons of interest in Bal-A-Vis-X over the past year: It’s how I was made aware of it. I was tagged via...
Christine Ruffolo
Jan 31, 20204 min read
A Philosophy of Possibility
Kids on a playground at recess choose their environment. They enjoy it because there are no expectations — nothing has to be done nor...
Christine Ruffolo
Jan 29, 20204 min read
Shifting Classes Toward Students
Three years in the making, I became clear on the name for my class and what I hoped it could offer students. Up until this time, I got...
Christine Ruffolo
Jun 16, 20193 min read
Critical Look #3 – My Own Work
‘Critical Look’ challenges the way systemic information is presented and questions the story being told. SYSTEMIC IDEOLOGY: Create a New...
Christine Ruffolo
Jun 13, 20195 min read
A Hard-Soft PE
Thematic teaching offers an umbrella students can return to to make their own connections. It provides a constant amidst the chaos to...
Christine Ruffolo
Apr 28, 20197 min read
Almog Loven Part 2: Feels
Part one of this series looked at the more physical elements of the “Weightlessness” workshop, and revealed the wonderful surprise of...
Christine Ruffolo
Feb 5, 20195 min read
An Interesting Phys Ed
Interest dictates pretty much everything. It is the neck that turns the head and keeps curious eyes fixed. At its most illuminating and...
Christine Ruffolo
Oct 29, 20185 min read
Teaching Kids Weightlifting
A PE teacher on one side of the country texts her trainer pal on the other. “I was thinking of getting this textbook for my weightlifting...
Christine Ruffolo
Jun 23, 20186 min read
An Everything PE: Year Two in Review
Two years ago, I set to develop a “new” type of PE that looked outside the realms of sport and weight lifting. With the outliers as my...
Christine Ruffolo
Jan 18, 20185 min read
Certs, Workshops, and Continuing Ed
Information is a tease that lures you to attach yourself with a particular paradigm. The consequence of consuming the free tastes is...
Christine Ruffolo
Dec 12, 20173 min read
Letting Them Lead
Three months into the new school year, everything seems easier. As encouraging as my findings from the first year were, I wanted to...
Christine Ruffolo
Jul 13, 20177 min read
A New PE: Year in Review
Being a public educator means you will never be without students. The caveat is that many won’t want to be there. Shaped by a past...
Christine Ruffolo
Jan 23, 20175 min read
Changing the Culture of Physical Education
I’ve been teaching PE for thirteen years. When I entered, I did what those around me were doing. I had been an athlete. I had great...
Christine Ruffolo
Dec 10, 20164 min read
“It’s all made up stuff.”
As practioners and coaches, teachers and students, we are constantly seeking out information to make us better at what we are trying to...
Christine Ruffolo
Oct 30, 20164 min read
Movement Translation
“Translation allows for otherwise separate entities to synapse and communicate.” I have been a teacher for thirteen years and a movement...
Christine Ruffolo
Jul 23, 20164 min read
Minimizing Sport in Physical Education
featured photo credit: theindianschool.in I’ve had the good fortune to work at an arts school the last eight years. The students, many...
Christine Ruffolo
Mar 13, 20162 min read
The Influence of Dirt
The dirt must have confidence. It’s capable of so many things! Even if no one notices and it doesn’t look like it’s working, it gets...
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