Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. I’m your host, Zach Groshell, and today we are talking about…. PE!
I’ll admit, I’ve often taken a dim view of PE as a subject. At its worst, it’s often just games and activities that don’t appear to build toward much, and that, frankly, could be led by someone without much expertise at all.
So I was genuinely curious to sit down with Ste Robinson.
Ste is a PE teacher and department leader who has been rethinking what physical education can look like when it is treated as a serious curriculum subject rather than just a series of activities. In this episode, we discuss his approach to building a knowledge-rich PE curriculum, how he applies ideas like mastery learning and skill-based grouping, and how he has led his department to think more carefully about progression, instruction, and what it means for students to truly improve.
Along the way, we talk about what it takes to move beyond activity for its own sake and toward a model of PE where students actually master skills over time. We also discuss how to make high-quality PE accessible to the students who need it most.
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We’ll spend our mornings unpacking the research, our middays studying expert teaching on video (courtesy of Steplab!), and our afternoons rehearsing the moves that make instruction clear, efficient, and reliable—so you leave with a practical toolkit you can use on day one.
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