September 1, 2025 • 16 mins
What's up PE Nation!
Today we dive deep into "Level 3" equipment for physical education programs, exploring how to dream big and significantly elevate your PE offerings beyond the basics. From securing $9,000 obstacle courses to writing effective grants, this episode provides a roadmap for transforming your program with strategic equipment investments.
• Define your "why" before investing in major equipment
• Create a list of "moonshot" equipment dreams you'd like to pursue
• Focus on equipment that benefits many students simultaneously
• Write effective grants by demonstrating educational impact through pre/post testing
• Partner with school foundations, PTOs, and local businesses for funding
• Think beyond traditional PE equipment to create unique, memorable experiences
• Don't let rejections stop you from pursuing program-enhancing equipment
• Ensure equipment aligns with your program vision and curriculum needs
• Transform teaching from a job into a passionate career through strategic investments
Take care and happy teaching,
Dave
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello and welcome to the Super Size for the Dead
podcast.
My name is Dave and today Iwant to go to level three with
equipment.
We've done one and two and ifyou haven't heard that yet,
please go back and listen to thepodcast but today is about
level three.
So we're going big, we're goingbeyond and we're dreaming big.
So, without further ado, herewe go.
(00:31):
All right, welcome in everybody.
So you have equipment, you havegood equipment, you have a
(00:51):
decent amount of equipment, butnow what?
So now it's time to dream big.
If you're still building, youknow basics.
Go back and listen to my firsttwo episodes.
Like I said, I have an equipmentlist, an essential equipment
list, and that will help guideany new PE teachers that might
be looking for guidance withwhat to order when you first
(01:14):
start out.
And I'm sorry, my dog isplaying with a ball in the
background, so if you hear that,I apologize.
I'm on the run-eye this morning, recording on an early Saturday
morning and trying to make surethe kids stay asleep while I do
this.
So thank you for indulging mydog, peppermint.
So if you're ready to go for it, keep reading.
It's time to add bigger andbetter equipment to your program
(01:35):
.
This is your time to upgrade.
So I want you to think aboutthings that you know you want to
just go for it.
Right, new things, new dreams,just go for it.
And um, new things, new dreams,just go for it.
And again, I provided a levelthree equipment, a list of ideas
.
But this is a fluid, ongoingthing that you can build as you
(01:56):
go and it's up to you and yourprogram.
So if you haven't alreadydownloaded the copy, the free
copy, of the ultimate PEequipment checklist, it will be
in the show notes and it's inthe other episodes if you
already grabbed it.
So level three is like theextras you have money, you have
a budget maybe, like I don'treally have a budget, but I
write grants for some of thesethings.
(02:17):
So let's talk about some of thethings you could add potentially
and then go beyond that even so.
Here's the first thing.
My level three ideas aregymnastic mats I'm just gonna go
in order Pillow polo sets,large exercise balls or cage
balls like for crab soccer kindof thing.
Flag belts or pennies.
(02:38):
Rebounders like shoot ball,which we do a lot of.
Spike ball sets, which I don'tactually have at my current
school.
I had in my former schoolhockey sets, like just hockey
equipment, baseball equipment,golf clubs um, we have first tee
, so there's there's ways to getit without paying money or just
donations, and also tennis,badminton, pickleball,
(03:01):
volleyball, that kind of stuff.
Those sets, um, I put balanceboards on there as well.
It's primarily a program.
Depends on what you want, whatyour students' needs are, what's
available in your community.
That's always a big thing.
So you know, let's talk aboutwhere do you go from here, and
you can add these things as yougo.
You can add these things alittle bit at a time.
(03:21):
You can DIY, kind of make someof these things.
But how do you know what to do,like where to go?
Don't just buy random equipmentand spend a ton of money.
So let's begin and figure outhow do we go from here, like,
what do we do?
So we'll make this a little bitof a boomer here.
So here we go.
(03:46):
So, all right, the first thingis what is your why?
So you have to define your why.
If you don't know where you'regoing, how do you know what
you're going to do?
How do you know what to cover?
So what is your vision for yourprogram?
What do you want your studentsto learn and what units do you
want to cover or introduce tothem?
And these are really importantquestions because it's not a
one-size-fits-all kind ofprogram like PE or, better yet,
(04:10):
subject area.
It's not one-size-fits-all.
You can teach grade-leveloutcomes and standards in lots
of different ways.
It's not just.
You know you have to do it thisway and for me, I get a lot of
latitude because it's PE and youknow it's not as important as
math and reading.
I know I don't really believethat, but some people do and we
(04:31):
have a lot of leeway.
So just, for instance, likethrowing and catching, you could
do beanbags and hula hoops, oryou can do like jukeball, or you
know handball or some kind oflike.
There's different ways to teachunits and, of course, the age
level of the students isimportant as well, but we have a
lot of latitude, all right.
For instance, at the PEInstitute in 2015,.
(04:51):
That was a long time ago.
It's 10 years.
Wow, it's crazy.
So that's when I first saw theRally Yard obstacle course.
I was like, oh, this is amazing, it's so cool.
And if you don't know what itis, well, it's in the article.
I wrote an article about this,about this entire thing we're
talking about and I'll put it inthe show notes if you want to
take a look.
The obstacle course is like abig blue.
(05:13):
I guess you can get it in onedifferent color, like a gray
also, I think.
Just different pieces of anobstacle course you can put
together.
It's amazing, it course you canput together.
It's amazing, it really is.
It's awesome.
So.
And it's large and sturdy andcan be used for lots of things
like fitness, climbing, otherthings.
So I was hooked.
I didn't know what I was goingto do with it, but I was hooked
(05:35):
and I wrote a grant for almost$9,000 and got it.
So now you know when I bring itout.
By the way, I got it at both myschools.
Technically, I wrote a grantfor it three times and was
rewarded for it, because thefirst time was again for like
$9,000.
(05:55):
And then they decreased thetotal amount you could write a
grant for.
So my current school I wrote agrant for it for like $5,000,
got half of it about, and then Iwrote another grant a year or
two later and got more.
So my why we'll talk about whyhere is I want to introduce new
and exciting things to mystudents and introduce them to
just things they would never seebefore or never probably will
see again in their PE class orelsewhere.
(06:16):
And you know we could teachdifferent things on it, like I
teach sometimes we do.
I don't teach cup stacking onit, but part of the obstacle
course is you have to up, stackand down stack.
It depends on the grade levelthree stack or six stack, and
you know kindergartners are soproud of themselves when they
achieve their goals and theymake it across the obstacle
course and overcome their fears.
(06:37):
So you could do throwing andcatching on it, which we've done
before Again fitness, all sortsof things, relay, races, and
you know I just want to keepbringing new things to my
students and you know that's mywhy.
There you go, that's my why.
And that's the first boomer.
All right, I'd say number twostart listing your possibilities
(06:59):
and moonshots.
So once you have your why, youknow, just come up with a ton of
ideas, just brainstorm, writeit down.
And I have all had a lot ofhits and misses over the years
and I'm always looking to expandmy program and to keep up with
the times for my students.
Um, I write down everything inmy PE journal and I revisit them
to make adjustments and to belike, oh yeah, I got that one or
(07:23):
I created that or whatever.
And when I receive money fromfundraiser grants I can see if
these ideas fit into my schoolyear.
So here's my top 10.
I'm going to give you 10.
I'm not going to do boomerangon this one, but top 10
moonshots over the years andthey didn't all hit, by the way.
They're usually not all hits.
A lot of them are, but not allof them All right.
So here they are.
So number one, I'd say, was theRally Art Obstacle Course.
(07:43):
Like I said, I received at bothmy schools, which is awesome.
Number two are the Brain Balls,which are balls, basketballs,
small basketballs with numbersand letters on them.
I received them at both myschools as well, which is grants
I wrote.
Number three archery.
I've been denied every timeI've asked for it, but I'm going
(08:06):
to be working on something soonwith safer alternatives.
Number four heart rate monitors.
I received them as a grant at myformer school, but the
technology this is again about10 years ago wasn't sustainable
for outside PE.
It wasn't great and with a lotof students it was okay.
I mean, I'm glad we had them,but we didn't use them as much
as I thought we were going touse them and just downloading
them and everything at the timewas a pain, just a pain.
(08:29):
Number five is pedometers Kindof the same thing.
I got them at my former school,but just downloading them and
then the kids would log intolike a google uh, doc or um, I
think, google form actually, butit just took too long.
I had too many kids.
I had like 140 kids, which isjust hard to do sometimes.
Number six these things wereawesome.
(08:50):
They were the called the funky,funky moves, I think it was
called, but we call them thefunky cones.
These cones lit up when theywere touched or controlled by a
receiver.
I got these in my former school.
Again, this is at least 10years ago.
They were amazing but they keptbreaking and they were really
good.
We'd play games like kids hadto run across and if they hit
the green cone or yellow cone orwhatever, it would register the
(09:12):
numbers and we'd see justthings like that.
Or we could randomly light themup where kids have to run to
certain colors.
It was a lot of fun but theykept breaking and the company
I'm not kidding went out ofbusiness like overnight and we
never got them replaced.
So, speaking of never gettingreplaced, number seven is
fitness equipment.
So I got a credit for the funkycones shout out to Gopher
(09:34):
Sports, by the way.
They were very good with that,with giving me credit for and
this is thousands of dollarsthose funky cones and this is
thousands of dollars, thosefunky cones and when they broke
they gave me not me, but myschool credit.
So we received a bunch offitness equipment that I ordered
and so that was great to have,and they're still at my former
(09:54):
school.
Number eight is a bike andscooter trailer.
We had this as a districttrailer that would come around
different schools, but they lostthe funding and I'm working on
a new thing now.
I'm working on it now, tryingto get some bikes and scooters
back at my new school.
Number nine is skateboarding.
I was kind of denied for safetyreasons because we're on cement
(10:15):
, we're not on a gymnasium floor.
Roller skates, roller bladesI'd love to do that.
I just don't think that's goingto be feasible, at least right
now where I'm at, and just notreally allowed.
So anyways.
Number 10 is gaming.
Like exercise gaming equipment.
I'd love to have that.
It's way too expensive.
But you know, don't call me out, I'm still working on things
(10:38):
like that.
So it's okay to dream big.
I'm actually not working onthat currently but you can never
stop dreaming, right?
Keep those dreams and keepworking on it, keep figuring out
answers.
And that's number two, allright.
Number three is get partnersinvolved.
(11:00):
So in the past I've asked myadministration for permission to
write grants.
Fortunately, we have afoundation that works with our,
just strictly with our district.
Again, I'm sorry about some ofthe noise.
I can hear some of the noiseoutside the just cars and air
conditioner units, so Iapologize.
So the district works with ouror the foundation works with our
district every year, and youknow I'm currently writing a
(11:25):
grant right now.
Every single beginning of theschool year they put this out.
So you know, just asking for PEequipment isn't always the way.
Demonstrating how the equipmentbe used is the best way For
your school, for your children.
Listing standards, grade level,outcomes, showing a before and
after is the best way.
When I'm writing grants, thebest way to do it is to do like
a pre-test, post-test, showresults and make it into a
(11:50):
project.
So and I know not everybody hasthis foundation that works with
.
You know a district, but youknow.
Reach out to local businesses,other charitable organizations,
and you know they district, butyou know.
Reach out to local businesses,other charitable organizations,
and you know they'd like to help.
You just have to find them, youhave to look for them and I do
have some of them listed in myBeg, borrow, build and Steal
Equipment ebook that I'll alsolist in the show notes.
(12:10):
But you know as well, get yourPTO involved.
I just met with them the otherday about field day stuff.
Last year they got us someFrisbee golf targets, which
they're expensive.
So get people involved to helpyou build your program.
And that is number three.
The final one today is just gofor it.
(12:33):
Don't just sit around and becontent with the status quo.
Come up with a plan, put thework in and make your dreams
come true for your program.
I have many former students thatI see all over the place.
I see them at Publix Target,the arena that I work at, and
they still talk about all thefun they had in my class.
They talk about Webster, ourmascot, or the shootball
(12:54):
tournament or the kickballtournament or just different
things we do and the fun theyhad.
Or the obstacle course.
Again, I am well my formerschool because I wrote the grant
, but my former school and mycurrent school are the only
schools in the district thathave the obstacle course.
And again, I'm not bragging,I'm just saying like that makes
us unique and that makes ourstudents' experiences unique.
(13:16):
And you know they talk aboutthese things.
Again, these kids are in highschool, college.
I mean, I have students thatare way older than that, but in
the district I live in, that'show old some of my former
students are.
Former students are, and you canteach with little or no
equipment.
I'm just challenging you to goall in, make your teaching job
into your passion.
Don't make it just a job, makeit a career, make it a passion.
(13:38):
I always say this do what'sbest for your students and you
can never go wrong unless youkeep asking for archery over and
over again.
But that's a whole other story.
And now it's time for yourcowbell tip of the day.
All right, so your tip of theday is to just kind of like the
(14:06):
last one.
Just go for it.
Come up with a plan and work onyour big dreams for this
equipment expansion I guesslevel three if you're at that
spot Again, if you're not, goback and listen to and
definitely download the copy ofmy levels one and two, and
actually three is on there aswell.
But you know, this is your timeto dream big.
(14:26):
If you have the budget, youhave a basic foundation of
equipment, go for it, but makesure it's something that could
benefit the whole school.
I didn't mention that before,but you know, don't just buy
something that could benefitlike 10 kids at a time.
There are some things out therethat I see them like oh, that'd
be cool, but it's like oh, for$200, it can serve six kids or
(14:48):
something like that.
It's like no, I want to benefitat least one class at a time,
hopefully more than that, liketwo.
But look at your program,decide what you need and go for
it, and that is your cowbell tipof the day.
(15:13):
Thank you everybody for tuningin today.
I really do appreciate it, asalways.
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(15:36):
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So that would definitely helpout the this podcast and help
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Hopefully they want to uh, growtheir program and I'm just
trying to reach as many peopleas I can.
So, thank you, pe nation.
You guys and girls are awesome.
Have a great day, week, weekend, whenever you listen to this,
(16:07):
and let's keep pushing ourprofession forward.
Thank you.
Hello and welcome to the Super Size for the Dead
podcast.
My name is Dave and today Iwant to go to level three with
equipment.
We've done one and two and ifyou haven't heard that yet,
please go back and listen to thepodcast but today is about
level three.
So we're going big, we're goingbeyond and we're dreaming big.
So, without further ado, herewe go.
(00:31):
All right, welcome in everybody.
So you have equipment, you havegood equipment, you have a
(00:51):
decent amount of equipment, butnow what?
So now it's time to dream big.
If you're still building, youknow basics.
Go back and listen to my firsttwo episodes.
Like I said, I have an equipmentlist, an essential equipment
list, and that will help guideany new PE teachers that might
be looking for guidance withwhat to order when you first
(01:14):
start out.
And I'm sorry, my dog isplaying with a ball in the
background, so if you hear that,I apologize.
I'm on the run-eye this morning, recording on an early Saturday
morning and trying to make surethe kids stay asleep while I do
this.
So thank you for indulging mydog, peppermint.
So if you're ready to go for it, keep reading.
It's time to add bigger andbetter equipment to your program
(01:35):
.
This is your time to upgrade.
So I want you to think aboutthings that you know you want to
just go for it.
Right, new things, new dreams,just go for it.
And um, new things, new dreams,just go for it.
And again, I provided a levelthree equipment, a list of ideas
.
But this is a fluid, ongoingthing that you can build as you
(01:56):
go and it's up to you and yourprogram.
So if you haven't alreadydownloaded the copy, the free
copy, of the ultimate PEequipment checklist, it will be
in the show notes and it's inthe other episodes if you
already grabbed it.
So level three is like theextras you have money, you have
a budget maybe, like I don'treally have a budget, but I
write grants for some of thesethings.
(02:17):
So let's talk about some of thethings you could add potentially
and then go beyond that even so.
Here's the first thing.
My level three ideas aregymnastic mats I'm just gonna go
in order Pillow polo sets,large exercise balls or cage
balls like for crab soccer kindof thing.
Flag belts or pennies.
(02:38):
Rebounders like shoot ball,which we do a lot of.
Spike ball sets, which I don'tactually have at my current
school.
I had in my former schoolhockey sets, like just hockey
equipment, baseball equipment,golf clubs um, we have first tee
, so there's there's ways to getit without paying money or just
donations, and also tennis,badminton, pickleball,
(03:01):
volleyball, that kind of stuff.
Those sets, um, I put balanceboards on there as well.
It's primarily a program.
Depends on what you want, whatyour students' needs are, what's
available in your community.
That's always a big thing.
So you know, let's talk aboutwhere do you go from here, and
you can add these things as yougo.
You can add these things alittle bit at a time.
(03:21):
You can DIY, kind of make someof these things.
But how do you know what to do,like where to go?
Don't just buy random equipmentand spend a ton of money.
So let's begin and figure outhow do we go from here, like,
what do we do?
So we'll make this a little bitof a boomer here.
So here we go.
(03:46):
So, all right, the first thingis what is your why?
So you have to define your why.
If you don't know where you'regoing, how do you know what
you're going to do?
How do you know what to cover?
So what is your vision for yourprogram?
What do you want your studentsto learn and what units do you
want to cover or introduce tothem?
And these are really importantquestions because it's not a
one-size-fits-all kind ofprogram like PE or, better yet,
(04:10):
subject area.
It's not one-size-fits-all.
You can teach grade-leveloutcomes and standards in lots
of different ways.
It's not just.
You know you have to do it thisway and for me, I get a lot of
latitude because it's PE and youknow it's not as important as
math and reading.
I know I don't really believethat, but some people do and we
(04:31):
have a lot of leeway.
So just, for instance, likethrowing and catching, you could
do beanbags and hula hoops, oryou can do like jukeball, or you
know handball or some kind oflike.
There's different ways to teachunits and, of course, the age
level of the students isimportant as well, but we have a
lot of latitude, all right.
For instance, at the PEInstitute in 2015,.
(04:51):
That was a long time ago.
It's 10 years.
Wow, it's crazy.
So that's when I first saw theRally Yard obstacle course.
I was like, oh, this is amazing, it's so cool.
And if you don't know what itis, well, it's in the article.
I wrote an article about this,about this entire thing we're
talking about and I'll put it inthe show notes if you want to
take a look.
The obstacle course is like abig blue.
(05:13):
I guess you can get it in onedifferent color, like a gray
also, I think.
Just different pieces of anobstacle course you can put
together.
It's amazing, it course you canput together.
It's amazing, it really is.
It's awesome.
So.
And it's large and sturdy andcan be used for lots of things
like fitness, climbing, otherthings.
So I was hooked.
I didn't know what I was goingto do with it, but I was hooked
(05:35):
and I wrote a grant for almost$9,000 and got it.
So now you know when I bring itout.
By the way, I got it at both myschools.
Technically, I wrote a grantfor it three times and was
rewarded for it, because thefirst time was again for like
$9,000.
(05:55):
And then they decreased thetotal amount you could write a
grant for.
So my current school I wrote agrant for it for like $5,000,
got half of it about, and then Iwrote another grant a year or
two later and got more.
So my why we'll talk about whyhere is I want to introduce new
and exciting things to mystudents and introduce them to
just things they would never seebefore or never probably will
see again in their PE class orelsewhere.
(06:16):
And you know we could teachdifferent things on it, like I
teach sometimes we do.
I don't teach cup stacking onit, but part of the obstacle
course is you have to up, stackand down stack.
It depends on the grade levelthree stack or six stack, and
you know kindergartners are soproud of themselves when they
achieve their goals and theymake it across the obstacle
course and overcome their fears.
(06:37):
So you could do throwing andcatching on it, which we've done
before Again fitness, all sortsof things, relay, races, and
you know I just want to keepbringing new things to my
students and you know that's mywhy.
There you go, that's my why.
And that's the first boomer.
All right, I'd say number twostart listing your possibilities
(06:59):
and moonshots.
So once you have your why, youknow, just come up with a ton of
ideas, just brainstorm, writeit down.
And I have all had a lot ofhits and misses over the years
and I'm always looking to expandmy program and to keep up with
the times for my students.
Um, I write down everything inmy PE journal and I revisit them
to make adjustments and to belike, oh yeah, I got that one or
(07:23):
I created that or whatever.
And when I receive money fromfundraiser grants I can see if
these ideas fit into my schoolyear.
So here's my top 10.
I'm going to give you 10.
I'm not going to do boomerangon this one, but top 10
moonshots over the years andthey didn't all hit, by the way.
They're usually not all hits.
A lot of them are, but not allof them All right.
So here they are.
So number one, I'd say, was theRally Art Obstacle Course.
(07:43):
Like I said, I received at bothmy schools, which is awesome.
Number two are the Brain Balls,which are balls, basketballs,
small basketballs with numbersand letters on them.
I received them at both myschools as well, which is grants
I wrote.
Number three archery.
I've been denied every timeI've asked for it, but I'm going
(08:06):
to be working on something soonwith safer alternatives.
Number four heart rate monitors.
I received them as a grant at myformer school, but the
technology this is again about10 years ago wasn't sustainable
for outside PE.
It wasn't great and with a lotof students it was okay.
I mean, I'm glad we had them,but we didn't use them as much
as I thought we were going touse them and just downloading
them and everything at the timewas a pain, just a pain.
(08:29):
Number five is pedometers Kindof the same thing.
I got them at my former school,but just downloading them and
then the kids would log intolike a google uh, doc or um, I
think, google form actually, butit just took too long.
I had too many kids.
I had like 140 kids, which isjust hard to do sometimes.
Number six these things wereawesome.
(08:50):
They were the called the funky,funky moves, I think it was
called, but we call them thefunky cones.
These cones lit up when theywere touched or controlled by a
receiver.
I got these in my former school.
Again, this is at least 10years ago.
They were amazing but they keptbreaking and they were really
good.
We'd play games like kids hadto run across and if they hit
the green cone or yellow cone orwhatever, it would register the
(09:12):
numbers and we'd see justthings like that.
Or we could randomly light themup where kids have to run to
certain colors.
It was a lot of fun but theykept breaking and the company
I'm not kidding went out ofbusiness like overnight and we
never got them replaced.
So, speaking of never gettingreplaced, number seven is
fitness equipment.
So I got a credit for the funkycones shout out to Gopher
(09:34):
Sports, by the way.
They were very good with that,with giving me credit for and
this is thousands of dollarsthose funky cones and this is
thousands of dollars, thosefunky cones and when they broke
they gave me not me, but myschool credit.
So we received a bunch offitness equipment that I ordered
and so that was great to have,and they're still at my former
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school.
Number eight is a bike andscooter trailer.
We had this as a districttrailer that would come around
different schools, but they lostthe funding and I'm working on
a new thing now.
I'm working on it now, tryingto get some bikes and scooters
back at my new school.
Number nine is skateboarding.
I was kind of denied for safetyreasons because we're on cement
(10:15):
, we're not on a gymnasium floor.
Roller skates, roller bladesI'd love to do that.
I just don't think that's goingto be feasible, at least right
now where I'm at, and just notreally allowed.
So anyways.
Number 10 is gaming.
Like exercise gaming equipment.
I'd love to have that.
It's way too expensive.
But you know, don't call me out, I'm still working on things
(10:38):
like that.
So it's okay to dream big.
I'm actually not working onthat currently but you can never
stop dreaming, right?
Keep those dreams and keepworking on it, keep figuring out
answers.
And that's number two, allright.
Number three is get partnersinvolved.
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So in the past I've asked myadministration for permission to
write grants.
Fortunately, we have afoundation that works with our,
just strictly with our district.
Again, I'm sorry about some ofthe noise.
I can hear some of the noiseoutside the just cars and air
conditioner units, so Iapologize.
So the district works with ouror the foundation works with our
district every year, and youknow I'm currently writing a
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grant right now.
Every single beginning of theschool year they put this out.
So you know, just asking for PEequipment isn't always the way.
Demonstrating how the equipmentbe used is the best way For
your school, for your children.
Listing standards, grade level,outcomes, showing a before and
after is the best way.
When I'm writing grants, thebest way to do it is to do like
a pre-test, post-test, showresults and make it into a
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project.
So and I know not everybody hasthis foundation that works with
.
You know a district, but youknow.
Reach out to local businesses,other charitable organizations,
and you know they district, butyou know.
Reach out to local businesses,other charitable organizations,
and you know they'd like to help.
You just have to find them, youhave to look for them and I do
have some of them listed in myBeg, borrow, build and Steal
Equipment ebook that I'll alsolist in the show notes.
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But you know as well, get yourPTO involved.
I just met with them the otherday about field day stuff.
Last year they got us someFrisbee golf targets, which
they're expensive.
So get people involved to helpyou build your program.
And that is number three.
The final one today is just gofor it.
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Don't just sit around and becontent with the status quo.
Come up with a plan, put thework in and make your dreams
come true for your program.
I have many former students thatI see all over the place.
I see them at Publix Target,the arena that I work at, and
they still talk about all thefun they had in my class.
They talk about Webster, ourmascot, or the shootball
(12:54):
tournament or the kickballtournament or just different
things we do and the fun theyhad.
Or the obstacle course.
Again, I am well my formerschool because I wrote the grant
, but my former school and mycurrent school are the only
schools in the district thathave the obstacle course.
And again, I'm not bragging,I'm just saying like that makes
us unique and that makes ourstudents' experiences unique.
(13:16):
And you know they talk aboutthese things.
Again, these kids are in highschool, college.
I mean, I have students thatare way older than that, but in
the district I live in, that'show old some of my former
students are.
Former students are, and you canteach with little or no
equipment.
I'm just challenging you to goall in, make your teaching job
into your passion.
Don't make it just a job, makeit a career, make it a passion.
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I always say this do what'sbest for your students and you
can never go wrong unless youkeep asking for archery over and
over again.
But that's a whole other story.
And now it's time for yourcowbell tip of the day.
All right, so your tip of theday is to just kind of like the
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last one.
Just go for it.
Come up with a plan and work onyour big dreams for this
equipment expansion I guesslevel three if you're at that
spot Again, if you're not, goback and listen to and
definitely download the copy ofmy levels one and two, and
actually three is on there aswell.
But you know, this is your timeto dream big.
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If you have the budget, youhave a basic foundation of
equipment, go for it, but makesure it's something that could
benefit the whole school.
I didn't mention that before,but you know, don't just buy
something that could benefitlike 10 kids at a time.
There are some things out therethat I see them like oh, that'd
be cool, but it's like oh, for$200, it can serve six kids or
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something like that.
It's like no, I want to benefitat least one class at a time,
hopefully more than that, liketwo.
But look at your program,decide what you need and go for
it, and that is your cowbell tipof the day.
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Thank you everybody for tuningin today.
I really do appreciate it, asalways.
Go to supersizefizadcom formore information and check out
the links in the episode notesfor everything I talked about
today, and please leave ahopefully five-star review.
I linked it real quickly so toSpotify, where you just click on
the link and see my dog ismaking noises, click on the link
(15:36):
and uh, yeah, it'll take threeseconds.
So that would definitely helpout the this podcast and help
out, and help out everybody.
Hopefully they want to uh, growtheir program and I'm just
trying to reach as many peopleas I can.
So, thank you, pe nation.
You guys and girls are awesome.
Have a great day, week, weekend, whenever you listen to this,
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and let's keep pushing ourprofession forward.
Thank you.
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