@OpenPhysED

For my Professional Learning Network, I am following @OpenPhysEd on Twitter. “OPEN has

one mission: to improve the effectiveness of physical education for every child. We help
teachers help their students by providing rigorous, outcomes-based curriculum tools to every
physical education teacher – no exceptions. Equity of Access is essential for empowering the
entire physical education community.” (OPEN, July 16,2020). One of the Open leaders used to
be the Fulton County Health/Physical Education Coordinator, Brian Devore, and he was an
amazing teacher, and coordinator! As the coordinator, he offered a lot of Professional
Development opportunities for K-12 Health/Physical Education teachers. He then went on to
work for OPEN which in my opinion is the leading curriculum and professional development
tool that is free for all HPE teachers. OPEN is very active on Twitter encouraging and inspiring
teachers to try new things as well as they have an awesome website that has printable
curriculum and ready to implement instructions.

My goal for participating with OPEN is to follow OPEN on twitter and get ideas for my classroom
that I can then share with my 6 other colleagues. As a PE group we are always looking for new
games and ideas and that is why OPEN is so wonderful! Open talks about offering professional
development days and I have reached out to them to see if we can get Fulton County back on
their schedule or even better just come to my school Hopewell Middle School. I filled out the
proposal request listed on Twitter so we will see when I hear back from them! My plan of
action would be to have them come to our school in March for one of our teacher workdays.
With there being 7 HPE teachers at my school we are always looking for large group games we
can play with 175+ students in the gym when the weather is bad. I am looking forward to
working with OPEN to grow as a teacher.