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Five books, the theories that shape development, and the pioneers who named them — in one place, with a door on the bottom bar.

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Five books, one toolkit

The spine of the course. You do not need to finish them to use the app.

Theories that shape development

What you believe about how children grow changes the session you write tomorrow.

Pioneers

Ten play scientists, plus the people behind the hourglass, skill themes, and climate.

Five books, one toolkit

They are the spine; the modules carry the teaching. You do not need to finish them to use the app.

Gallahue, Cleland Donnelly & Goodway

Developmental Physical Education for All Children

Curriculum framework, skill themes, developmental sequencing

The spine of the course. Skill themes, movement concepts, and how to sequence work so children actually acquire fundamental movement skills.

Haibach-Beach, Reid & Collier

Motor Learning and Development

Science of skill acquisition, practice design, feedback

Explains how children learn movement — stages, constraints, practice schedules, and feedback that sticks.

Carol Stock Kranowitz

The Out-of-Sync Child

Sensory processing lens, behavior as sensory communication

Turns puzzling behavior into readable sensory information so you can adapt instead of punish.

Charles D. Appelstein

No Such Thing as a Bad Kid

Strength-based, trauma-informed behavior and relationship

Gives you the relational stance that makes every other tool work. Misbehavior is a coded message.

Stuart Brown with Christopher Vaughan

Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

Philosophical and biological foundation; play as the engine

Protects you from turning this work into drills. Play is not a break from learning. It is the learning.

Theories that shape development

12 lenses in four families. What you believe changes the session.

All lenses

How bodies grow

Maturation, systems, phases, and the proficiency barrier.

How we teach

Skill themes, constraints, games, and stages of learning.

Why they stay

Autonomy, mastery climate, and the feeling of the room.

Play & literacy

Play as the engine. Physical literacy as the aim.

Pioneers

21 people. Each with a teacher’s question and a floor activity.

Meet them

Play science

Ten ways to notice what play is actually doing.

Physical development

How bodies grow, and why a late skip is not laziness.

Physical education

How we teach so the skill survives the game.