Welcome to The Changing Rooms podcast. Specific to teaching physical education and always contemporary. Join your host James Simms as he interviews Dr. Shrehan Lynch, teacher-educator, founding member of PhysEquity and  author of Pedagogies of Social Justice in Physical Education and Youth Sport.

Link to full blog post: https://blog.theeverlearner.com/en/the-changing-rooms/social-justice-in-pe

James and Shrehan discuss the issues of representation and non-diversity in the domain of physical education, the traditional assumptions that we make and how to challenge them. Shrehan helps us to look to the future and consider what PE might look like in a more balanced and equitable model.

Shrehan is a physical education lecturer and teacher educator at UEL, very close to the 2012 Olympic site in Stratford. Shrehan teaches trainee teachers across a variety of course programmes and has a particular interest in the sociocultural aspects of PE. Shrehan is also a founder member of PhysEquity (formerly BAMEPE), a social change movement with the aim of equitable physical education.

James is a PE teacher of 17 years' experience and the founder of The EverLearner Ltd as well as the creator of TheEverLearner.com and ExamSimulator, services used in over 50% of all PE departments in the UK.

Welcome to The Changing Rooms podcast. Specific to teaching physical education and always contemporary. Join your host James Simms as he interviews Phil Mathe, author of Happiness Factories a book that is expected to challenge all PE teachers upon publication in early 2022.

Link to full blog post: https://blog.theeverlearner.com/en/the-changing-rooms/happiness-factories

Phil and James discuss the reasons for Phil's book, the importance and relevance of a holistic PE curriculum, the vital nature of context when planning for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and the joys and challenges of teaching PE in an international setting. 

Phil is Director of Co-curricular Activities at Brighton College Al Ain as well as an author. Phil is also a regular contributor to the TES.

James is a PE teacher of 17 years' experience and the founder of The EverLearner Ltd as well as the creator of TheEverLearner.com and ExamSimulator, services used in over 50% of all PE departments in the UK.

Welcome to The Changing Rooms podcast. Specific to teaching physical education and always contemporary. Join your host James Simms as he interviews Lee Sullivan, author of Is PE in Crisis: Leading Meaningful Change in Physical Education.

Link to full blog post: https://blog.theeverlearner.com/en/the-changing-rooms/pe-in-crisis 

James and Lee discuss the reasons for Lee's book, the importance and relevance of the concept curriculum, the shift in pedagogy that is needed within the sector and the importance of truly educational assessment rubrics.

Lee is Head of physical education at Upton Court Grammar School in Slough and has recently become an author.

James is a PE teacher of 17 years' experience and the founder of The EverLearner Ltd as well as the creator of TheEverLearner.com and ExamSimulator, services used in over 50% of all PE departments in the UK.