Workshops · Coming back

Four weeks to modernise your PE practice in the AI age.

For more than a decade I ran in-person PE Geek workshops in 40+ countries. The next one is async, runs over 4 weeks, and is built around the meta-skills that work in any school on any platform: AI fluency, feedback & assessment workflows, modern PE admin, and shipping your own tools. Every ticket includes 12 months of ConnectedPE access as your ongoing toolkit.

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Where this comes from

A decade of workshops. 40+ countries. Thousands of teachers.

The PE Geek workshop has run on three continents — in school halls and gyms, hotel ballrooms and convention centres, and on Zoom calls before Zoom was famous. It's never been a slide-deck performance. It's hands-on, you-leave-with-something-you-can-use-Monday. The new format keeps that DNA, just delivered async so it fits your week instead of the other way round.

10+
Years of in-person and online workshops
40+
Countries we've delivered in
1000s
PE teachers, coaches, & department heads
100%
Practical — nothing you can't use this term
What's in the ticket

One workshop. One year of follow-through.

The skills are taught for any school on any platform — but you also get a year inside ConnectedPE so you have a supported toolkit while you put them to work.

How the next one works

4 weeks. Async. Built around what schools actually need.

One module each week, dropped on Wednesdays. Watch when it suits — at 6am with a coffee or at 9pm after pack-up. Optional assignments you can share with the cohort and get feedback on, from me directly. About 8–12 hours total over the four weeks.

01

Async, not abandoned

One video module per week, plus practical exercises. You set the pace. I'm in the cohort space every day responding to what people share.

02

Real feedback, not auto-graders

Share your assignments and you'll get a personal response from me — not a checklist, not a generated comment. The same feedback I gave 1:1 in face-to-face workshops.

03

Small cohort, real conversation

Capped intake so you actually know who else is in the room. Comments, questions, and shared experiments are encouraged — not a content-dump course.

04

Transferable, not platform-locked

Skills work in any school on any platform — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, your existing apps, ours. ConnectedPE is your ongoing toolkit, not the curriculum.

What we'll cover

The four-week arc

Each week ends with a concrete artifact you can show your principal on Monday.

Week 01 Drops Wednesday Week 1

AI for PE teachers, from first principles

Transferable AI fluency. Works on any tool, not just ours.

  • The landscape — ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Copilot, free vs paid, what to never paste in
  • Five prompting patterns that actually work (role + context, examples beat instructions, iterate, constrain, the "great teacher finisher")
  • Ten PE-specific prompt patterns — differentiated plans, sport quizzes, parent emails, rubrics, warm-ups, report comments and more
  • Where ConnectedPE's AI suite fits — same patterns, productised

Artifact: Personal prompt cookbook + one term of lesson plans, generated.

Week 02 Drops Wednesday Week 2

Feedback & assessment in the AI age

The heaviest, highest-value week. Worth the ticket on its own.

  • Video feedback workflows that don't eat your weekend — 90 seconds per clip, end to end
  • AI-augmented rubric scoring — where it's reliable, where it isn't, how to set it up so it forces evidence
  • Voice & video reflection from students — on-device transcription, privacy-aware, searchable
  • Evidence portfolios & growth tracking — the "then vs now" workflow that replaces the marks spreadsheet
  • Parent-facing feedback automation — one-tap updates from what already happened in class

Artifact: A personal feedback workflow + 3 real pieces of student feedback returned the new way.

Week 03 Drops Wednesday Week 3

Modern PE workflows — planning, admin & comms

The boring high-leverage stuff. The "I got my Sundays back" week.

  • AI-augmented planning at scale — generate a full 8-lesson unit, not just one lesson
  • Differentiation in seconds — turn any plan into 3 ability versions plus 2 adjustment versions
  • Reports & comments in your voice — paste 3 of your real comments, generate 30 more in the same voice
  • Parent communication templates — behavioural incident, achievement, attendance, sensitive conversations
  • The time-back audit — map current weekly admin time and lock in your 3 highest-leverage AI moves

Artifact: Time-back audit + 3 saved-template workflows + one full differentiated unit plan.

Week 04 Drops Wednesday Week 4

Build your own + lead your team

The maker payoff + the organisational reality.

  • Pick your problem — guided exercise to identify the one tool that'd save you the most time
  • Build it with vibe-coding (Lovable / Bolt / Claude Artifacts) — ship a working tool in 60–90 minutes, no code knowledge required
  • Ship it, name it, host it — templates for a 1-page landing for what you've built
  • The department adoption playbook — bring 3–5 colleagues with you without becoming everyone's IT support
  • Talking to admin about AI in PE — a 1-page brief template for your principal or HoD: policy, data safety, outcomes
  • What to learn next — where the field is heading, how to stay current after the workshop ends

Artifact: One shipped custom tool + a department adoption plan + an admin brief.

Is this for you?

Who shows up

  • PE teachers wanting to use AI with intention, not novelty
  • Department heads who need to modernise the faculty's practice
  • Coaches and PD providers translating the workshop back to their teams
  • Schools sending a cohort together (bulk enrolment supported)
  • Anyone who's been to a PE Geek workshop before and wants the next chapter
  • Teachers in any country — cohort is international, timezone is yours
What it isn't

Set expectations

  • Not a tour of ConnectedPE — skills are taught platform-agnostic, CPE is the ongoing toolkit
  • No live weekly sessions — intentionally async so it works in any timezone
  • No grades, no assessment, no pass/fail
  • No formal certification — just a completion badge if you finish all four modules
  • Not a replacement for in-person PD with your team — a complement to it
Jarrod Robinson
Your instructor

Jarrod Robinson

17 years writing about technology in physical education at The PE Geek. Host of The PE Geek Podcast. Founder of ConnectedPE — the platform built around every tool that's come out of this work. Workshops delivered in 40+ countries since the early 2010s. Still teaches PE.

First cohort · 2026

Get on the list.

Drop your email and you'll be the first to hear when the date and final syllabus are locked. First 50 on the list get founding-cohort pricing on the workshop and the year of ConnectedPE access.

No spam. One announcement when the launch date drops, then the quarterly PE Geek newsletter if you'd like it.

Common questions

Frequently asked

What does the ticket actually include?

The 4-week async workshop (videos, weekly assignments, cohort space, personal feedback from me), 12 months of ConnectedPE access (every app, AI tool, course, library asset), and lifetime access to the workshop materials themselves.

When does the first cohort start?

The launch date will be set once the waitlist hits a critical mass. Realistically first half of 2026. People on the waitlist hear first.

How much will it cost?

Public pricing is being finalised. Founding-cohort pricing for the first 50 on the waitlist will be meaningfully lower than the public price. Bulk school / district pricing is also available — note that on signup.

Is this just a ConnectedPE sales pitch?

No. The skills, workflows, and judgement you walk out with are entirely transferable — they work on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, your existing video tools, your school's existing platforms. ConnectedPE shows up briefly as worked examples and as the ongoing toolkit for the year of access. Roughly 90% of the workshop is platform-agnostic.

Can my school send a cohort?

Yes. Bulk enrolments and PO-based payments are supported, and the workshop is explicitly designed to be valuable for school PD budgets — the "your teachers walk out AI-fluent in 4 weeks" pitch is the line item. Note "school cohort" when you join the waitlist or email [email protected].

What if I can't keep up week-by-week?

You won't fall behind — modules stay open and you have lifetime access. The cohort discussion is most active when modules drop, but the materials don't expire.

What gear / software do I need?

A laptop or iPad, a recent web browser, and access to a class (or a hypothetical class to run experiments against). Specific tools used in each week will be listed in the final syllabus — most are free or have free tiers, and ConnectedPE covers the rest.

I came to a PE Geek workshop in 2014 / 2017 / 2019 — will this be different?

Same DNA — practical, opinionated, hands-on — but fully redesigned around how teachers actually consume PD now. Async, smaller cohort, AI-aware, with lifetime access and a year of ongoing toolkit instead of "you had to be in the room."