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The Story of My Physical Literacy (Education)



​​"The Story of My Physical Literacy" is meant to educate, inspire and move health and physical education professionals to action from my own personal perspective.  The premise of the talk is how physical literacy plays a key role in not only the physical quality of one's life but the emotional, personal, and professional quality as well.  As I look back over my life, several key decisions and successes were preceded by quality, life changing physical experiences.

This is all tied together through stressing the importance of physical literacy for all students, highlighting how health and physical educators are a critical component in any school district, building or classroom, and how all health and physical educators are uniquely positioned to help students create a successful life.

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“I was blown away listening to Mike’s Keynote talk at CAHPERD’s ‘Our Time 2019’ conference.  He put it all out there!!  He left himself vulnerable and he was completely honest about it.  It was authentic, genuine and real.  His ‘physical literacy journey’ was pure emotion and the entire audience was blessed to hear it.  It made me reflect on my own physical literacy journey as it relates to my children.  It was engaging, interactive, funny and effective all rolled up and delivered perfectly.  Mike took the risk and he delivered!!!" 
 
Tim Hamel
2018 – 2019 President, CAHPERD


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Recent Educational Conference Appearances
  • 2024 Daily Physical Activity Policy Conference, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (Lead Speaker)
  • 2024 SCAHPERD Annual Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC (Keynote)
  • 2024 SC FitnessGram Annual Summit, Myrtle Beach, SC (Keynote)
  • 2024 SHAPE Idaho Annual Conference, Boise, ID (Keynote)
  • 2024 Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Conference, Pottstown, PA (Keynote)
  • 2024 East Asia Regional Council of Schools - Bangkok, Thailand (Featured Speaker)
  • 2024 Dutch International Primary Schools Conference (Completed Virtually - Featured Speaker)
  • 2024 SHAPE NJ Annual Conference, Princeton, NJ
  • 2023 Active Schools National Summit, Greeley, CO (Keynote)
  • 2023 Bergen County (NJ) Curriculum Consortium (Keynote)
  • 2023 Arizona Health and Physical Education State Convention, Phoenix, AZ  (Keynote)
  • 2023 AMLE National Conference, National Harbor, MD (Session Presentation)
  • 2023 Region 16 Summer Conference, Amarillo, TX (Keynote)
  • 2023 New Hanover County Schools, Wilmington, NC (Keynote)
  • 2022 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Leadership Conference, Charlotte, NC (Keynote)
  • 2022 The Leadership Committee for English Education Annual Conference, Laval, Quebec (Featured Speaker)
  • 2022 NC SHAPE Annual Convention, Winston-Salem, NC (Keynote)
  • 2022 Action For Healthy Kids Conference, Chicago, IL (Keynote)
  • 2022 ConnectedPE Online Conference (Featured Speaker)
  • 2022 Eastern Seaboard Region of the National Academy of Health and Physical Literacy (Keynote)
  • 2022 SHAPE NJ Annual Conference, Long Branch, NJ
  • 2022 NC SHAPE Virtual Convention
  • 2021 Summer Institute – FMU Center of Excellence to Prepare Teachers of Children and Poverty Online Professional Learning Series (Completed Virtually – Keynote)
  • 2021 Educational Collaborative for International Schools PE Conference (completed virtually – Featured Speaker)
  • 2021 Nassau Zone of NYSAHPERD (completed virtually – Featured Speaker)
  • 2021 Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Institute, Pottstown, PA (completed virtually - Featured Speaker)
  • 2021 Rhythm and Moves Conference, San Francisco, CA (completed virtually - Featured Speaker)
  • 2021 Connecticut AHPERD Conference, Southbury, CT (Keynote)
  • 2021 New Hampshire AHPERD Conference, Waterville Valley, NH (Keynote)
  • 2020 Maryland State Education Association Conference (completed virtually – Featured Speaker)
  • 2020 Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Institute, Pottstown, PA (completed virtually - Featured Speaker)
  • 2020 Rhythm and Moves Conference, San Francisco, CA (completed virtually - Keynote)
  • 2020 The Leadership Committee for English Education Annual Conference, Laval, Quebec (Featured Speaker)
  • 2020 NC SHAPE Virtual Convention
  • 2020 PhysEd Camp, SHAPE MD, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (Featured Speaker)
  • 2020 NJAHPERD Annual Conference, Long Branch, NJ (Keynote)
  • 2020 Educational Collaborative for International Schools, Madrid, Spain (completed virtually - Featured Speaker)
  • 2020 Konvent, Skola, Halsa & Inlarning 2020, Stockholm, Sweden (Postponed until 2021 - Featured Speaker)
  • 2020 Region 16, Special Education Camp, Amarillo, TX (completed virtually - Featured Speaker)
  • 2020 ChargedUP Education Online Conference (Featured Presenter)
  • ​2019 Missouri Coordinated School Health Coalition - Columbia, MO (Featured Speaker) 
  • 2019 Rhythm and Moves Conference - San Francisco, CA (Keynote)
  • 2019 Region One Early Childhood Conference - Padre Island, TX (Keynote)
  • 2019 ECISPE Conference -  Barcelona, Spain (Keynote)
  • 2019 California AHPERD Conference - Garden Grove, CA (Keynote)
  • 2019 Move2Learn Summit - Alexandria, VA
  • 2018 Oklahoma AHPERD, Edmond, OK (Keynote)
  • 2018 Lancaster-Lebanon Health, Physical Education and Wellness Conference (Keynote)
  • 2018 Educational Collaborative for International Schools PE Conference - Dusseldorf (Keynote)
  • 2018 Mind-Body Education Conference - 1440 Multiversity - Scotts Valley, CA (Keynote)
  • 2017 ConnectedPE Online Conference
  • 2017 New Jersey Education Association  - Atlantic City (Keynote)
  • 2017 Association for Middle Level Education  - Philadelphia
  • 2017 Let's Go! 5-2-1-0 Goes to School Symposium - Portland, ME (Keynote)
  • 2017 The Francis Marion University Center of Excellence to Prepare Teachers of Poverty Summer Institute - Florence, SC (Keynote)
  • 2017 AdvancED Wyoming Continuous Improvement Conference - Casper, WY (Keynote)
  • 2017 SHAPE Southern District - Baton Rouge, LA
  • 2016 East Asia Regional Council of Schools - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Keynote)
  • 2016  SHAPE Michigan Conference - Mackinac Island, MI (Keynote)
  • 2016 Knowledge Resources E-Learning Conference - Johannesburg, South Africa (Keynote)
  • 2016 Healthy Bodies/Healthy Minds Conference - Pottstown, PA (Keynote)
  • 2016 East Asia Regional Council of Schools - Manila, Philippines (Opening Keynote)
  • 2015  Missouri SHAPE Conference, Lake of the Ozarks, MO
  • 2015 Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Conference, Pottstown, PA
  • 2015 Capacity Builders National Conference on Cultural Based Nutrition & Fitness for Native American Youth, Farmington, NM (Keynote)
  • 2015 ASCD Houston, TX 
  • 2015 SHAPE Seattle, WA 
  • 2014 NJEA Atlantic City, NJ
  • 2014 Colorado Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Denver, CO (Keynote)
  • 2014 TEDxAshburn, Ashburn, VA
  • 2013 Empowering Communities for a Healthy Mississippi Conference, Jackson, MS (Keynote)
  • 2013 CCLC Fall Conference, Bismarck, ND
  • 2013 Wellness Summit, Gulfport, MS (Keynote)
  • 2013 American Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Charlotte, NC
  • 2013 Association for Supervision and Development, Chicago, Illinois
  • ​2013 Minnesota Association of School Boards, Minneapolis, MN​ (Pre-Conference Keynote)
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