A podcast for health and PE teachers
The conversation after the sessions end.
Three health teachers. Three states. One podcast. Zero budget. Matt, Ian and Steve talk health education, shop, and everything your lunch table was too crowded to get into. Health drives the bus, but PE always has a seat.
EST. 2026 · 13 EPISODES
Dustin Ambort, Brewers, Trivia, and 20 Minute PE Classes
Steve and Ian grab Wisconsin's 2026 Elementary PE Teacher of the Year in a back hallway at the Kalahari, a few hours before he picks up the award. Dustin teaches 20-minute classes back to back with no passing time, so transitions aren't part of the lesson. They are the lesson. Matt is in Ohio, texting about FOMO.
Every episode
Roughly every two weeks since April 2026. Skills-based health, the standards one at a time, teachers of the year as guests, and a running travelogue of Midwest conferences.
Three hosts, three states
One from Ohio, one from Wisconsin, one from Minnesota. All three teach health right now. Tap a card to flip it.
Cleveland
Vikings
Brewers
The three met on the conference circuit, kept running into each other, and eventually decided the hallway conversation deserved a microphone. Episode one, Is This Thing On?, is the origin story.
What people say
“A new kid on the block.” Andy Milne put the show on his list of the seventeen podcasts worth a health or PE teacher's time, and described it as the unscripted hallway conversation health teachers wish they had after a conference: practical skills, standards, real lesson delivery, and classroom management, with humor and takeaways you can use.
Slow Chat Health, October 30, 2026 · Read the full list
Things we keep mentioning
The short list. Every episode's links, including the lessons the hosts and guests actually teach, live in the show notes doc.
Start here
- Slow Chat HealthAndy Milne's blog. If you follow one thing, follow this.
- School Health Educators podcastDr. Lori Reichel
- Project Zero thinking routinesHarvard Graduate School of Education
- Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Secondary Health EducationSarah Benes and Holly Alperin
- HECATCDC's Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool
- State SHAPE and AHPERD conference datesAll fifty states, one page
- MN HPE NewsletterSign up at bit.ly/MNHPETeachers
From the episodes
- Dear PE Teacher… Surprise! You Get to Teach Health!Heather Burd, episode 11
- Untangling the Web, analyzing influences summativeIan Lacasse, episode 12
- Skill cue cards for the laminatorMatt Hagedorn, episode 12
- Analyzing Influences: skills-based nutrition lessonSteve Chapin, episode 12
- The Blueprint: what I teach and how to make it yoursJessica Matheson, episode 3
- Leah's game linksLeah Wheeling, episode 6
- 9 Weeks to Build a Community in Health ClassMatt Hagedorn on the SHAPE America blog, episode 9
- WHPE Justification Toolkit 2026For the conversation with your principal
- Stanford REACH Lab cannabis prevention curriculumFree, episode 10
People worth following
Mentioned something on air that isn't here? It's in the show notes, organized by episode and updated with every release.
Open the show notesCome hang out
Have a lesson that works, a standard you want argued about, or a conference we should be at? Email any of us. Guests so far have ranged from first-year health teachers to national Teachers of the Year, and the bar is the same for everyone: real talk.
hagedorn.matthew@tallmadgeschools.orgilacasse@shapemidwest.orgschapin@isd840.orgWhere to find us this fall
We record on the road when we can. Say hi and you might end up on the show.
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