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All the Physical Education blogs by people in, or from, the UK.

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Deeper, cleaner, leader | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Deeper, cleaner, leader | Kristian Still

Deeper, cleaner, leader | Kristian Still

For 18 months, communication (both sending and received) has been an area for professional development. In my mind, communication has now been separated into two actionable components; planned comm…

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Jorge Rodriguez | The Global PhysEd Umbrella | rellis87 thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Jorge Rodriguez | The Global PhysEd Umbrella | rellis87

Jorge Rodriguez | The Global PhysEd Umbrella | rellis87

  “One thing that we have to learn to do also (as teachers) is back off…” “It’s so important for the students to learn simple strategies to self regulate, and then use them in all aspects of their …

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Back to the future – Coaching | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Back to the future – Coaching | Kristian Still

Back to the future – Coaching | Kristian Still

Yesterday, Graham Norris shared a copy of “How is Coaching Being Used Within School? – Does coaching have an impact on improvement in school settings? A summary report on the research project under…

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Coaching for schools | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Coaching for schools | Kristian Still

Coaching for schools | Kristian Still

As Jackie Arnold highlights in Chapter 19 of Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace, “Organisational approaches to coaching” fall into three broad categories. Centralised and structured Organ…

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Physical Education: The Antidote or the Poison? | @ImSporticus thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Physical Education: The Antidote or the Poison? | @ImSporticus

Physical Education: The Antidote or the Poison? | @ImSporticus

PE is in a state of crisis or so social critical theorists would have us believe. David Kirk believes that physical education is in crisis because the ‘dominant practice of physical education as ‘s…

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Physical Education: The Antidote or the Poison? | @ImSporticus thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Physical Education: The Antidote or the Poison? | @ImSporticus

Physical Education: The Antidote or the Poison? | @ImSporticus

PE is in a state of crisis or so social critical theorists would have us believe. David Kirk believes that physical education is in crisis because the ‘dominant practice of physical education as ‘s…

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Coaching skills for leaders (part 3) | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Coaching skills for leaders (part 3) | Kristian Still

Coaching skills for leaders (part 3) | Kristian Still

After Clean Language, the later chapters of Jackie Arnold’s book are broader and more organisational, linking to the Level 5 ILM course. Just two snippets. If you continue to regard your coachee as…

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Listening to promote their thinking | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Listening to promote their thinking | Kristian Still

Listening to promote their thinking | Kristian Still

The quality of your listening will establish the quality of their thinking. Now there is a comment worth considering. I picked up this thought from Jackie Arnold’s book on Coaching. The importance …

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Coaching skills for leaders (part 2) | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Coaching skills for leaders (part 2) | Kristian Still

Coaching skills for leaders (part 2) | Kristian Still

The second half of the course reading ‘Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace’ – Jackie Arnold has already highlighted a line of personal enquiry – Clean Language. Which connects with a secon…

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Nikki Linsdell | Breaking down the barriers in Primary Gymnastics | rellis87 thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Nikki Linsdell | Breaking down the barriers in Primary Gymnastics | rellis87

Nikki Linsdell | Breaking down the barriers in Primary Gymnastics | rellis87

  “I don’t think there’s a lot of equipment you need to access high-quality gymnastics…”   Welcome to episode 119 of The PE Umbrella Podcast, the only Primary PE podcast in the world, as we talk AL…

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How difficult is hard? | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
How difficult is hard? | Kristian Still

How difficult is hard? | Kristian Still

Here we are talking about question or item analysis. How difficulty is a question. Multiple Choice Questions MCQ quizzes can be given a difficulty rating or (p-value). The higher the value the easi…

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Coaching skills for leaders | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Coaching skills for leaders | Kristian Still

Coaching skills for leaders | Kristian Still

Halfway through the course reading Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace – Jackie Arnold I thought it may be worth just capturing my reflections and sharing one or two highlights. As you wou…

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“Coaching is a mystery rather than a puzzle” – a conversation with Alex Twitchen | thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
“Coaching is a mystery rather than a puzzle” – a conversation with Alex Twitchen |

“Coaching is a mystery rather than a puzzle” – a conversation with Alex Twitchen |

Alex Twitchen has spent all his life in coaching.It is something that he has been able to combine as a career and as a practitioner. He is passionate about learning and development and is as passio…

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“I don’t think you can go wrong if you give the players the tools to do it for themselves” – a conversation with Anastacia Long | thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
“I don’t think you can go wrong if you give the players the tools to do it for themselves” – a...

“I don’t think you can go wrong if you give the players the tools to do it for themselves” – a...

Anastacia Long has had an amazing coaching journey! In this enthralling story (that is straight out of the Hollywood archives!) she tells us all about her journey from going from being an elite hig…

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VUCA? | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
VUCA? | Kristian Still

VUCA? | Kristian Still

Organisational _______________ (Blank) is where my think is at. Very much around the Complexity Theory and building and harnessing trust within it. Whether Coaching, culture, leading, developing le…

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Short termism | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Short termism | Kristian Still

Short termism | Kristian Still

Twice this week I have spoken about the short termism in education and personal leadership development. How education is time-pressured and as a result we water the crown and not the roots. In both…

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Psychological Safety | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Psychological Safety | Kristian Still

Psychological Safety | Kristian Still

Amy Edmondson, Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and author of The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and…

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Buses and which Coaching and Mentoring course? | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Buses and which Coaching and Mentoring course? | Kristian Still

Buses and which Coaching and Mentoring course? | Kristian Still

Things comes in threes. (Right @Leah_moo?) Like snow storms, keynoters stuck at the train station and lost room keys (the only room in the hotel with an old fashioned key). What about the Early Car…

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I was wrong about ‘teaching to the top’ | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
I was wrong about ‘teaching to the top’ | Kristian Still

I was wrong about ‘teaching to the top’ | Kristian Still

It would seem that I have been wrong about a few things lately. Encouraging decent is so important within schools, as it is with any organisation. If staff do not feel psychologically safe, few wil…

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Children’s Mental Health Week | Kristian Still thepeechochamber.wordpress.c…
Children’s Mental Health Week | Kristian Still

Children’s Mental Health Week | Kristian Still

The shoes that lay outside St George’s Hall Liverpool represent the 226 children who lost their lives to suicide in 2017. It is a shocking and tragic visual representation to mark the start of Chil…

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