Amongst the Weeds
Alternative Title: When empathy feels like the greatest form of loving. We are all gifted time on this earth. We spend it in the ways that makes sense to us. We leave, we stay, we come back for.… Read more ›
The Cooperative Shift
As a competitive athlete for twenty years, my sole focus was working to be better than other people. Then my body broke down and my mind and identity soon followed. Lost in the abyss of post-competitve depression and unable to find the help I needed, I set out to fix myself, both physically and mentally. The start was a mindshift to cooperation, and a mission to share what I once would have greedily hoarded for myself. This site is a living document to what I’ve figured out, with hopes that it makes for a little less hurt in the world.
– Christine Ruffolo
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Reform Without a Model
For most, physical education is what they remember it to be. It was either awful or awesome or wholly unimportant. It remains what it has been for the last fifty years, a seeding ground for sports skills and/or an entry… Read more ›
Learning to Experience
It seems like such a silly word to try and define: experience. It just happens. It’s happening right now. But as I am finding, there is much more to a word than your perception of a word. It can be… Read more ›
Teaching Autonomy in High School Weightlifting (Part Two)
In part one of this series, I teased out the why and how of getting students to be brought into the process of learning and course development. This follow up will share the ‘what’ — the tests we track, the… Read more ›
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