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Zack Smith has been an international early childhood educator since 2005. He taught preschool homeroom and early years PE at Shanghai Community International School between 2005 and 2014. From 2014 to 2024, he was an early years PYP PE teacher at the KAUST School in Saudi Arabia. In the 2024-25 school year, he is excited to take on a new challenge in upper elementary PE at Korea International School Jeju. As an educator, Zack is dedicated to foundation skill development, transdisciplinary learning, and student empowerment through innovative and continuously evolving pedagogical strategies, making storytelling in PE an impactful tool for him. In this episode, we discuss the position of Zack's approach to storytelling within the MPE framework.

Show Notes

A Moving Child is a Learning Child - book

PHASE

What is important? How one early childhood teacher prioritised meaningful experiences for children in physical education

Marylin Fleer - Conceptual Playworld

Check Out Zack on YouTube

Interested in pursuing a PhD related to Meaningfulness? Check out the opportunity linked below - applications close June 15th.

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/280424/doctoral-candidate-in-physical-education

Thanks to Isaiah Gleddie for the guitar pieces, SSHRC for some funding and our guests for sharing!

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