This year the famous migration to Angkor Wat from Phnom Penh happened in the middle of March. Eighty students and thirteen chaperones traveled to Siem Reap to ride bikes around the Angkor Wat temples.
This is my 6th year organizing the trip with the PE team and I feel since most of us have done it now for at least 3 or 4 years, it just gets easier every time. It has changed over the years from its previous way of being when it used to be a “bike race” organized by Bike4kids.com and the run as part of the annual “Angkor Wat International Half Marathon”
As I said to our whole team, “It takes a village” and it really does.
The positive attitude of students and teachers since the beginning of the trip really help to make this experience a positive one for all.
Students cycled in the early morning on Saturday around the Angkor Thom complex.
Angkor Thom (Khmer: អង្គរធំ [ʔɑŋkɔː tʰom]; meaning “Great City”), was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer Empire. It was established in the late twelfth century by King Jayavarman VII.[1]: 378–382 [2]: 170 It covers an area of 9 km², within which are located several monuments from earlier eras as well as those established by Jayavarman and his successors. At the center of the city is Jayavarman’s state temple, the Bayon, with the other major sites clustered around Victory Square immediately to the north. The site is one of the major tourist attractions of southeast Asia.
The bike ride is beautiful. We go over the rampart wall entering the complex by the south gate of Angkor Thom, a very famous spot within Angkor Archeological Park. Admiring the sheer scale, we find ourselves drifting back in time to imagine how it must have felt to approach this spectacular city in its prosperity times is an experience all of us will hold forever.
This year we had 80 kids and divided them into 5 biking groups by skill level with 2, 3, or 4 chaperones, depending on their level and needs.
The route is beautiful, a bit challenging for some, and easier for others, like everything else in life.
I’m glad my son got to experience this opportunity while living in Cambodia and ride bikes, swim in the pool or play games, and walk around the Angkor Wat temples with his friends.
Students will treasure these memories forever, and I will too.
Last summer I read the “Meaningful Physical Education: An Approach for Teaching and Learning” book edited by Tim Fletcher, Déirdre Ní Chróinín, Douglas Gleddie, and Stephanie Beni.
I was really interested in applying this type of framework in my lessons and I tried to introduce it with my grade 4 students while being online but it wasn’t that meaningful or successful.
After 8 months of teaching remotely, the school finally opened and we thought that after a few weeks of doing a very short and intense “Adventure Challenge, Cooperative Games unit” we will start with the Individual Pursuits, Athletics Unit.
I thought it was the perfect moment to really introduce the framework and learn along with students.
During this unit of inquiry, we really tried to encourage students to work on their endurance in G4. That was one of the targets. This year was going to be challenging. Many kids DO NOT enjoy running as I do and many did none or very little physical activity while being online. That was one of our biggest concerns, the student’s health and something we could not control, just try to help and bring awareness.
So when we started planning this unit we were not sure how many students will be able to run or even fast walk a whole lap around the field.
We came up with an idea and it was a total success!
I created this poster and told the kids to choose where they thought they were that very first day. And everyone did, everyone found their way to run, even if it was just a little bit, and they were all SO happy. I think they felt the empathy of being unfit.
And we used this for a few more lessons as a warm-up idea. Many kids pushed themselves quite quickly and, of course, they were a few who wanted to do MORE than 2 laps around the whole field.
Then we thought that running was a good idea to start the lesson and to warm up, but I wanted to see if the kids had other thoughts in mind. And they did.
So we introduced more activities. They could still use that poster and also choose to work on their skipping ropes skills as well as ride bikes around the field ( not an easy task, by the way)
Mentor booksJump RopesBike Riding
During the unit, learners set up goals and work toward those goals usually with a partner they could check in with and support each other.
I like to check with students for understanding and sometimes, to be sure every voice is heard a quickly written 5-minute self-reflection is needed.
I had students thinking of this on their own:
Individual Pursuits-Athletics
Central Idea: Experiences in athletics, help us to develop our skills and set personal goals
What is meaningful to you in athletics? Why?
If you are not too sure think of the events we have practiced and your goal. Why did you choose this goal? What’s special about it?
Their responses gave me some information on what they knew about the unit, but it gave them an idea of where they were at too.
I decided that the feature of challenge and personal challenge could be the most relevant for learners in this unit, but I still introduced the other features to them.
I can’t remember where I found this poster, but I am attaching it here for your reference:
Then, we worked on this together:
What is the MOST, LEAST, and JUST RIGHT challenge for you in athletics?
Before I explain this, I’d like to thank Andy Vasily, Jorge Rogriguez, Zack Smith and Ty Riddick who inspired me in different ways to come up with this idea.
Every student had a number assigned and as I called their number their got a RED sticker for the MOST challenging event, a YELLOW sticker for the LEAST challenging event and a GREEN sticker for the “JUST RIGHT” event.
This made them reflect on their learning and think of what they really wanted to work on as well as think if that was related to their goal. In the picture, the “white” is yellow as I didn’t have any yellow stickers at that time.
This year we changed our central idea and all the grade levels had the same one:
“Experiences in athletics, help us to develop our skills and set personal goals.”
I really liked how we highlighted the word “experiences” That’s all we want to bring and create for students. Meaningful experiences that they will remember and adapt to their own settings. Developing skills also was important for us as learners understood that the techniques helped them to improve their performances and therefore it was related to their goal oftentimes.
This is the Success Criteria we used for this unit.
Once again, I had students using the three colors to determine how they felt, although I realized later that maybe they could have had more than just one green, or one red or yellow.
Inspired by Andy Vasily’s blog and his PYP journey, we talked about what are some ingredients that can help you be successful in your athletics journey.
The big celebration of our success was to have the Sports Days before the winter break holidays.
Usually, parents are invited to this type of event, but because of the measures to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks, we had to limit the numbers.
We had 3 Sports Days. One for EY, KG, and grade 1 students.
Another one for grades 2 and 3 and finally the last one with grade 4 and 5 athletes.
We were thrilled to be able to run these activities and see so many smiles around the field.
Students competed in grades 2-5 for their house color in the different events. The youngest wore their house shirt and had a wonderful time playing and exploring the different events.
We have 4 houses at ISPP, Mekong (blue) Bayon (orange) Kouprey (green) and Lotus (green)
The enthusiasm was palpable, the energy was floating around and everyone was simply, so happy!
This year we introduced the relays in grades 2-5 to race during Sports Days. Everyone took part in it. It was amazing the see these little athletes pushing themselves as well as encouraging each other and giving air hugs after the races!
What we had fear of and, at the same time, we were expecting to happen over the past few weeks has happened just like a blink of eyes, so sudden, and the whole world is expected to do the same. Our school shutdown last Monday.
It’s been a week now. A week of being a parent and a teacher at home, like many, many others around the world.
So, how did I start?
Thankfully, we have an amazing, very supportive community, the physed community online that shares ideas, documents, videos and all sort of resources to help you create your own, the best that can fit the needs of your students.
Also, a great team of single-subject teachers at our school thinking of what is best for the needs of our learners.
We are aware that it’s not going to be the same, however, we are trying to provide the best online school we can.
We don’t want to overwhelm our learners, so single subject teachers will post only ONCE per week ( everyone on a different day)
How does it look like for PE?
For now, we have decided to offer a variety of choices as we are aware that students might not have space, the facilities, or the equipment they need for everything we offer.
We will post once, on Mondays, but we know that students need to be active at least 60 minutes per day, so, for now, we are focusing more on the physical activity than a specific unit. This can change soon.
This is what I have sent to my G1 students for instance. And a similar one, with a weekly goal for the G5 learners.
Students have the whole week to complete different activities of their choice and document them on the PE Journal (see below)
They can add photos, short clips or just make their own version, then explained what they did and how much time they spent doing it.
Some students have sent me some videos already, and it’s great to see how active they are by themselves, jumping on the trampoline, cycling around their house or even swimming!
Others are slowly completing their diary or haven’t added anything yet.
What about my own kids? And the whole family life?
I am super lucky to be able to work from home with a flexible schedule, being available if needed it, or else, working at other times so I can support my kids with their learning during this time.
The first thing I did was to make a daily schedule for my older son (7 years old) so we could establish some sort of routine.
Our online school time starts at 8 at home (7:30 for me as a teacher) and we go over the different activities. during the morning, with lots of recess time and play, inside and outside.
At 9, when it’s the first-morning break for my older son, my youngest comes up and we check what his teacher has sent. I have noticed that both of them are looking forward to that moment of watching their teacher, listening attentively and paying attention to what is being said or asked for them to do.
After lunch, there is a mandatory pause time, where my oldest reads a few books to the youngest until he falls asleep. Then he has time for himself, there is just one agreement, “this is not a device time”
It’s then my time to catch up with things if I wasn’t able to do it in the morning and plan for the week.
In the afternoon, after the pause, it’s my husband’s turn to be with the kids, making sure everything gets done, sent and offering lots of play/fun time which is a very important thing too.
Then we all join in, playing any sort of game out in the garden, from basketball (be creative, my youngest is 3) to badminton, or even tricks throwing or kicking a ball. Just offering lots of movement and fun!
Balloon games with the ceiling fan on and “catch the panda” have also been a few favourites. To not name, that we have played with water, washed all the bikes, cooked, done all sort of art, playdough, magnets and we even had a hairdresser at home, with a few menus to choose from.
When we feel a bit tired, we practice yoga o dance, or even just put some music and draw or do mindfulness colouring.
Anyways, there are so many things we can do and I am thankful for this!
This is meant to be the first of a few reflection posts during this period of self-isolation and online school.
Last week we wrapped up our dance unit in G1 showcasing in the ES Assembly the learning that has been happening during the last few weeks.
This unit is a very special one as we have been integrating with the homeroom with the Interdisciplinary Theme, “How We Express Ourselves” and so did other single subjects such as art and music.
This meant that students were able to inquire into “Light and Sound” throughout all the subjects and students could make lots of connections during the unit.
Our central idea for this unit was:
Light and sound are used in different forms of expression.
During the unit, in PE, learners inquired into:
The choreographic concepts of time, force, flow, levels and space
Creating movement sequences in response to a musical theme
Using various dance games and different sounds they moved their bodies creating sequences of movements with a partner and in small groups.
G1 dancers improved their rhythm and let their creativity run as they felt more confident sharing part of their dances with their group.
From the very beginning of the unit, students knew that they were going to be performing in front of others and so they had to make good use of their time. This wasn’t always easy, especially for more introvert students, however, the way we did it really helped them to get out of the comfort zone and feel good about their movement compositions.
In the beginning, I would just play the music we chose for that day/dance and by the end of the lesson, everyone would perform at the same time, so there was no real pressure as everyone was in the same boat.
Then, we moved into half of the class performing and the other class watching and then switch, so everyone would have an opportunity to perform in front of others and learn from others. We encouraged students to give positive and constructive feedback to each other.
The next step was to have only 3 groups performing at the same time, then 2 and eventually, everyone was so ready to perform in front of others that it wasn’t a big deal to have your group performing in front of the whole class.
Students had lots of opportunities to “polish” their dances following a basic routine of a begging, middle, end, and adding concepts of choreographic dance such as space, levels and time.
I filmed every group in front of a green screen and they came up to an agreement when they had to choose their backgrounds.
As part of the end of the unit celebration, G1 learners were able to share their dances with their families as we added them into their digital portfolio using a platform called Seesaw.
Click Dancehere, here and here to watch a few of the dances G1 students created with their groups.
During the unit, we also explored other types of dances, such as African dance, learn a few new steps as we warmed up using the “Just Dance” website, or just express ourselves and let our bodies dance free while doing shadow dance.
Towards the end of the unit, students reflected on their learning. One of the prompts I had for them was “How did you feel about your dance? Why? Most of the students said they felt good about it because of different reasons. Some said that because they were able to try their best throughout the unit, others they felt nervous and happy at the same time. Others really liked the opportunity to choose a cool background. Others just simply felt proud of themselves. It was a very positive experience for all and lots of learning involved in the whole process.
A few weeks ago I wrote down my feelings on my notebook. I sat on my bed and started to write everything that was bothering me on my head, my feelings, my worries, my busy schedule including nonstop working weekends filled with workshops, competitions and activities.
I was so tired that didn’t have the energy and time to type it and blog about it.
Today, I’d like to share what I wrote.
“November has been a full-on month for me.
I do not like to use the word busy as I feel that it’s been overused, and often times we refer to it, “Oh, I am so busy,” almost like we are constantly so busy, however, I am finding that at the moment I am more than just busy, I feel, as my friend Nicky said a few times to me, a bit scrambled.
I just saw a post on social media about the point of the iceberg for teaching and what people see and what we, teachers, do behind the scenes. I just acknowledged that it was totally defining my feelings at the moment.
We are not only teachers for our learners, but we also act like counsellors, nurses, friends, person to go to…
We strive to plan the best lessons and we, sometimes, fail as we believe in inquiry, not only student-initiated inquiry but also teacher inquiry.
We attend conferences and get out of our comfort zone, presenting and sharing what we think are ideas that others can benefit from. And we learn, and learn and learn, and share our learning with our students and our love of learning as well. Yes, teachers also learn, all the time!
We teach educative lessons where students learn together, caring about each other and working with others, respecting each other even if they don’t have the same opinions or they struggle to figure out what to do and how to do it. All this happens in a safe environment and in a fun way.
We learn from colleagues and from students and we learn from our mistakes and our successes.
We have interesting conversations, meet virtual friends in real life and continue those conversations through twitter chats or other social media.
We give up our weekends and family time to keep learning and be with our students.
We take part on after school activities, competitions, international meets, tournaments, sports days, runs and spend countless hours practising with our young athletes and helping them to become the best of themselves.
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We document learning filming students, sharing videos, post, stories… with families and other teachers.
We constantly support our students and, if we notice any strugglers, we quickly try to find out what’s going on to be there for them.
We organize overnight trips and travel to new locations to find out the best possible one to provide an amazing learning journey for our kids.
We travel to Angkor Wat with learners so they can be part of a dream for many, an amazing journey cycling and running around the famous temples with their friends and teachers. And we train them for that, making sure they know how to ride a bike and supporting them as they improve their running endurance.
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We care about each other, our physical and mental health.
We plan activities for staff as well so they can be the best of themselves for them, their learners, colleagues, parents and the community.
We grade students and report on their learning.
We meet with the families and the students in something called 3 Way Conferences, students, parents and teacher where students share their accomplishments and talk about their next steps in their learning and parents find out about their children’s learning and ask questions as well as express ideas. Teachers are simply facilitators of this process.
As part of their, Cooperation Games UOI, G1 learners have been playing different games for a few weeks now.
At the beginning the lesson, I would ask learners, “What’s our unit in PE?” and since we are not integrating with the homeroom for this unit, just frontloading for their next one, I found that some students wouldn’t remember exactly what was our unit and even less, what was the purpose of it.
When asked, some learners would say “Work Together Unit” and I actually liked how they connected the games with the idea of working together, however, I thought it wasn’t enough so I decided to try something else.
After warming up with a fun tag game, to prepare their bodies and boost their brains, I gathered everyone and asked them what they knew about cooperation games. I also asked them if they could think of something we did when we played those games. Their brains just started to get activated and students bloomed with ideas.
We used those ideas, chose our favourites and created the “I can statements” for this unit.
G1 Cooperative Games Success Criteria
I can help my team
I can communicate by sharing ideas and listening to others
I can work together with others
I can play fair respecting the rules of the game and demonstrating sportsmanship
We played a few new games and I noticed that students did a much better job respecting each other and working as a team. Co-creating success criteria with learners helped them to be more aware of how they were working as a team, sharing ideas, listening to each other, being responsible and not cheating so they could be successful as a team.
How important is to feel good and healthy? What happens when you don’t feel that way?
Grade 1 learners, as part of the transdisciplinary theme, “Who We Are”, have been inquiring into what makes a healthy lifestyle. These are the lines of inquiry they used in the classroom and in PE:
Homeroom:
Ways we can keep ourselves healthy. (responsibility)
Features of a healthy lifestyle. (form)
Choices influence our well being. (causation)
PE
Become aware of the importance of physical activity in daily life.
Recognize basic changes that occur to their bodies when exercising.
The central ideafor this unit was: “The choices people make have an impact on their health and well being.”
In Physical Education, PE, students have been exploring a range of activities, starting with simple chase and flee games, followed by some mindfulness, yoga, dance and fitness to name a few.
During the activities and games, learners started to understand the changes that occurred to their body while exercising.
Dancing
They also noticed that some activities such as yoga or wall climbing do not increase their heart rate as much as others such as dance, play tag games or small-sided football games.
Students shared their understanding of the changes that occur to their bodies while exercising with parents through their digital portfolio in Seesaw.
Here you can see a couple of examples:
We wrapped up our unit with an assessment where students paired up and after playing or doing an activity for 2-3 min, they measured their heartbeat and added a checkmark if they thought the heart rate increased during the activity or an X if they didn’t notice anything.
Thanks for supporting your child to have a balanced, healthy life through making choices on food, sleep and activity time. It takes a village.
A few weeks ago, I decided to try something, I locked all my devices and just used a piece of paper to reflect on my morning.
The words came in so easily and I felt almost pain on my hand as I was writing so fast and I am not used to doing that anymore. In a way, I thought that having a device to type my thoughts would be better and at the same time, I just enjoyed experiencing the joys of writing.
I often think that reflecting and blogging are two different things. Most likely your posts are going to be full of reflections but what you write can also be stories, information about something, a special event that is happening or will happen, all sorts of things.
Reflecting requires critical thinking, thinking about why you did something, how did you do it, how your students did it and what they thought about it and why.
When we reflect, we consider deeply something that we might not otherwise have given much thought to. This helps us to learn. Reflection is concerned with consciously looking at and thinking about our experiences, actions, feelings, and responses, and then interpreting or analyzing them in order to learn from them (Atkins and Murphy, 1994; Boud et al., 1994). Typically we do this by asking ourselves questions about what we did, how we did it, and what we learnt from doing it. Reflecting on academic or professional practice in this way may make your personal beliefs, expectations, and biases more evident to you. This understanding of yourself should help you to carry out your studies more successfully since it makes you aware of the assumptions that you might make automatically or uncritically as a result of your view of the world.
I like to share what I wrote on my notebook in those 10 minutes I had for reflection.
Are you allowing yourself time during the day for reflection?
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“Today we had an amazing lesson with grade 5 learners. Students were very engaged. All the stuff was ready to go for them and they couldn’t wait to get started.
We love inquiry-based learning and we know that is not just a magical recipe that works as soon as you name it. In order for the inquiry to work, we need to provide the tools and strategies to our students so they can be independent learners.
To foster agency, it’s important to be aware of the opportunities, ideas, and resources we share with students. Provocations play an important role in this too.
I find that the Rhythmic Gymnastics UOI can be very interesting, engaging and fun for all students, yet, you need to find the right strategy to teach it and the students are the ones who own the learning.
I find that sharing the key concepts, learner profile attributes and attitudes of the unit have helped learners to “buy-in” and enjoy the learning that is happening in the unit, rather than doing nothing and losing motivation.
After warming up with a game, students started exploring different ways to manipulate a small foam ball. Once they felt a bit confident with tossing and catching or passing to each other or rolling balls and receiving their partners, they started to toss and do a leap or jump before receiving the ball.
I had printed QR codes of levelled videos of skills they could learn while using a ball.
I had also a number of balances and rolls posted on the walls for them to practice with and without the ball.
Students knew that they could challenge themselves to try something new and perseverance showed them that they could be successful.
One of my favourite things that happened during that lesson was to listen to a learner as he was about to leave the gym. He learned how to toss the ball, do a perfect forward roll, stand up and catch the ball. He was reflecting on the importance of the toss and how it wouldn’t work if he wouldn’t toss the ball properly.”
In PE we have been frontloading the transdisciplinary theme “How We Express Ourselves” We started an inquiry into various types of performances, the creative process and the purpose of a performance.
Students wondered about different ways to move their bodies and started to research and learn about a number of dances choosing one they wanted to focus on. Some of the questions that helped us guide the inquiry were related to the performances. Students asked questions such as “Why do people perform?” or “How can performers engage the audience?”
While creating their dances, students had to put together a sequence of movements having in mind the different dance elements: Space, Energy, Time and Body.
They also wondered what makes a good dance.
The central idea for this UOI was “Performance is Influenced by Purpose”
While working on their dances, students had to think of what was the purpose of their dance. To entertain their audience? To improve their dancing skills? To come to an agreement and be able to create a dance following a simple structure? To learn a new dance and perform it in front of the class?
During the unit, students had to show what they were able to do in different lessons. At the very beginning, they will just perform for me a simple movement. Then, I would ask half of the class performing at the same time in the gym and the other half, watching and giving positive feedback.
Then it would be only two groups at the same time and eventually, every single group performing in front of everyone else and receiving feedback from students and myself to improve their performances.
In their dance, students had to have a beginning, middle and end part. They had to have a number of movements in each part. This was a bit flexible, depending on the type of dance they were working on. They had to include different levels, use the space and change the shapes, formations, so they wouldn’t be all the time on a line facing their audience. In addition, I asked them to be good communicators, sharing their ideas and giving opportunities to others to share their ideas too.
What started as “I hate dancing”, “Why do we need to dance in PE?” and similar kind of questions and comments, ended up being a wonderful unit. I like to think that this happened thanks to the agency I brought into the unit right away and the way students feel that they owned their learning.
Students were asked to choose the dance they wanted to inquire into and create a dance based on that. I only gave them a very simple structure and a few tools and strategies to support them. We co-created the success criteria and adapted a few things for learners struggling so that they could also be successful in their dance and the whole process.
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Many students who did not think could dance, were able to end up dancing.
I was a facilitator of learning during the whole unit, assisting students with questions, wonders and ideas. A couple of groups got started figuring out what they wanted to do using an app called “iDance, used some of the movements learnt with the app and invented others.
How Did We Share Learning With Families?
At ISPP, the International School of Phnom Penh, we have been using a platform called “Seesaw” to create a digital portfolio and share learning with parents.
As a culmination of the unit, students were asked to perform in front of their class and we used a green screen (Green wall and a green carpet on the floor) to film all the dances.
I used youtube to download “free green backgrounds” and uploaded them on a shared google photo album. Then, I downloaded them on my photos, camera roll, on the iPad.
Students chose the background they wanted to have in their dances and I just put everything together using the free app, “Green Screen by Do Ink”
If you download the app it shows you how to do it. It’s not a complicated process.
You can click here if you’d like to watch the dances from G3 learners.
This month of February has flown by. I have been dedicating my time to a number of things at school, not always related to my lessons and it has taken a big chunk of energy.
When I chose to be part of all these things I knew I would be stressed, and I still chose to do them all. I have to say that I also said no to other things I could have added to my plate, and I am happy I decided to make this choice.
Balancing our work, personal life, time can be challenging sometimes, especially making sure you spend quality time with your family as well and it’s as important as deciding to do all your best at work.
As teachers we constantly give, give, give, and as we do, we always receive.
During this month, I managed my time at work to run a friendly competition of T-ball inviting three other international schools to our campus and having around 100 students in grades 3-5 participating in this kind of event.
Two days later, there was a G1 Assembly for the ES and learners shared a dance they did in a group. It was hard to get learners to come up to an agreement on movements, collaboration and communication at its best, however, agency, patience and lots of commitment helped us to put those dances together and film them using a green screen.
We only shared 3 dances, one per class, during the assembly, but we did share them all right after with families, using an app called Seesaw. It was a great way to showcase transdisciplinary learning across all single subjects and homeroom as Art and Music were also involved in the unit called Light and Sound. Parents loved it and so did learners.
Meanwhile, I have been planning a camping overnight trip with G5 students. Last year I did it too and although I thought this time would be easier as I already had done it, it was a lot to think about. We are leaving on Monday, first thing in the morning and now I am feeling that almost everything is put in place and we are ready to rock and roll!
I believe in wellness as an essential part of my life and I decided to take a risk this year and lead the Whole School Wellness Committee. I am very excited about this opportunity.
I love our team and even if we are just starting, we have put in place an hour of activities for teachers to take part before our upcoming PD day on Wednesday, the day I come from the camp.
We asked all teachers if they wanted to lead any activity and the response was overwhelmingly positive! We had 23 activities ready to run and 29 people involved. Such great support! All this supposed quite some planning and time and I can’t wait for it to happen!
On Thursdays, I coach swimming and yesterday was my last day with my swimmers for this season as I would start coaching volleyball on the next season. When I told them they were so disappointed and their words really touched me, and here is a clear example of receiving.
They said things like, “you are the best coach” or “please don’t go, I am in swimming because of you” ” We love how you coach us” and this kind of stuff.
This is a clear example of how relationships matter and the impact we can create in youth thanks to what we do, what we say and how we interact with them.
This is a personal reflection that I need it to write because many times we are really hard on us and we forget that yes, we care and try our best, we fail and recover, and others care about us as well.
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