Daniel Matos

Why #PhysEd is so important

@Vibrantsoul_NG @PaulForbesNYC Happy Birthday!

@PaulForbesNYC Happy Birthday!! Thank you for being a ray of sunshine in my life this past year. Wishing you a wonderful and blessed birthday 🥳🎉.

@csd9bronx Superintendent said it all! "Sports ARE academics. We engage the mind, we engage the body, we engage teamwork, we engage social-emotional learning." See the full story: bit.ly/3xQzhPV

Mark your calendars! May 1-7 is National PE & Sports Week 🏀💪🧠🏃‍♂️ Plan ahead: Use the resources below to celebrate the power of Physical Education and sports with your students! @SHAPE_America: bit.ly/3xCrvZR @HealthGov: bit.ly/3TIgIF2 #MoveInMay

I was an opener at a gym and the only employee in the building from 5:30am-9am 5 days a week. The manager position directly above me opened up. I applied, and got it. After 2 weeks of working this position I was introduced to the manager they hired for this role. Then they said I was too valuable as the opener and it's easier to fill the manager role than the former. The 80 hours I worked as manager were paid at $8.75 per hour instead of the $12 I was promised and the next Monday I was scheduled back for opening and only 27.5 hours. So needless to say I quit. I never missed a day. Did my job so well I was invaluable and they STILL rugpulled me. Hard work is punished in the US.

@MrBiehlsPE This is such an important concept to grasp. Even within so many team oriented environments, the “individual” is still emphasized, highlighted, and celebrated. There is so much merit in truly embracing what a team is absent of contributions isolated to individuals.

Today our students are reflecting on what it's like to think of the team first 🏆 after playing some Blanket Ball in #PhysEd

Problems that don't exist: (1) children who don't want to learn (2) a culture or mindset of poverty (3) communities that don't value education (4) educational disparities caused by an entire group's shortage of "grit." Let's not use energy fixing problems that don't exist.

@Fightful Great that this teacher has created an inclusive space for kids who love pro wrestling! This would have been my dream come true. Cudos to the administrators in the building who also allow this to happen! Amazing!

Cody Rhodes Is Sending The Wrestling Club To WrestleMania 40 dlvr.it/T0wz7F

@wallflowerperry Just heard of the amazing news about @CodyRhodes getting your kids to Wrestlemania. I also just heard about your wrestling club at school. What an amazing thing. I’d love to send you a PDF version of a pro wrestling themed poetry novel written in poetry verse.

@BoPhillips10 @D59SaltCreek @CoachNowlan Way to add a constraint and manipulate the environment so students are forced to use correct cues! 🤙🏼

We’re in our basketball unit and 1st graders needed some extra help working on shooting with an arc during Popcorn basketball so we added some Popcorn police to make them aim higher. #physed #basketball #reachforthestars #D59PE @D59SaltCreek @CoachNowlan

Finished with my first semester in an educational leadership program. Definitely opening up my eyes to ideal school efficiency, especially through the lens and perspectives of a #physed teacher who sees the entire school. It’s been an interesting experience thus far!

@RoyalOaksPE 🤙🏼

War of the Worlds (thanks to @HiCoachD for the game idea) 🚀🌍 #ROSAPE

@CoachGelardi Line ‘‘em up on time and when they ask what’s taking so long, tell them their teacher just be running late. Then the kids will say something when they get there! 😜

How do you handle classes getting picked up late from their teachers? #PhysEd

IMO, there’s a big misconception regarding “behavior management” in school. What is thought to be “behavior management” is often equated with “behavior control.” Behavior management is about building relationships. Behavior control is about projecting an often unrealistic ideal.

@JamesPeterPE @teacher2teacher 🤙🏼🙌🏼

One of my favorite anchor charts. Modeled after “reading is thinking”

@Learn2PlayNews Not sure if I can get approved to go because of being out for Big Apple Fellowship dates 👎🏼

Who will be in Cleveland with me in March???

@PaulForbesNYC @cforbes228 @8262amr @davidjnewman7 @NYIslanders Wow! Good to know! Lifelong ranger fan for me! Unless you’re talking about Coach Bombaye and the ducks 😜

@HiCoachD @cforbes228 @8262amr @davidjnewman7 Yes, sir! Lifelong @NYIslanders fan 🙌🏽 🙌🏽 🙌🏽 My teams: Mets, Celtics, Cowboys (protesting until Jerry Jones is gone) and Islanders

That’s an #Isles win 🥳 @cforbes228 @8262amr @davidjnewman7 🙌🏽 🙌🏽 🙌🏽

Parents of young athletes: You're being sold a bill of goods… Early specialization… It's a fear campaign… Its a billion dollar dumpster fire saying: To become a great athlete you must: Specialize early… Train year-round… Compete often… If you don’t your child is going to miss out and fall behind And for the most part:  It’s complete bullshit… What it really is: Early Development of sport-specific skills Early success in sport Little to no development of fundamental movement skills Poor performances later in the sport Higher chance of injury Higher Chance of Burnout from Sport Early start…Early finish! It's a complete lack of understanding of how humans develop… During the first 14 years of Life: Be a human first:  Do plenty of activities that involve: Rolling Crawling Climbing Reaching Bending Rotating Standing (1 foot) Changing levels: Be an athlete second: Sprint Jump Hop Climb Wrestle swim/bike/ski catch/kick/throw/trap Etc Sprinkle in lots of activities and multiple sports!  I can't guarantee a Div 1 scholarship but I can say that kids will be more Coordinated, stronger, more flexible, cardiovascularly fit, more resistant to fatigue and injury, and also be calmer, less stressed, leaner, and able to learn new skills. Skills like complex sports specific skills. #LTAD D.M. me for details about youth athletic development courses for purchase