“In a room with 100+ people, Mark Housel connected with my heart and soul as a teacher and sparked an inspiration in me that I didn’t know I was missing. ~Patrick Noel - VA. PE Teacher
Inspirational Keynote and workshop for Educators: What Kind of Teacher Do You Want to Be?
Based on the book What Kind of Teacher Do You Want to Be?, this inspirational keynote and workshop by former New Jersey PE Teacher of the Year Mark Housel challenges educators to reflect, reconnect, and recommit to their purpose. Blending storytelling, humor, and real classroom experiences, the keynote resonates with teachers at every stage of their career and across all content areas. Attendees leave motivated, re-energized, and equipped with a renewed mindset they can bring back to their students and school community.
Engaging Physical Education Workshops for Today’s PE Teachers
Mark Housel, former New Jersey PE Teacher of the Year and SHAPE America National PE Teacher of the Year finalist, offers high-energy, standards-aligned professional development workshops for health and physical education teachers. Rooted in real classroom experience, these engaging PE workshops focus on inclusive best practices, practical activities, and flexible teaching strategies that work in any space. From early childhood PE to veteran educators, each session delivers actionable ideas that re-energize teachers and positively impact student learning.
Movement-Based Learning Workshops for Teachers of Any Subject
Housel Fun & Fitness offers high-energy, movement-based professional development workshops designed for educators of all grade levels, content areas, and experience levels. Through sessions like Teamwork in the Classroom, Moving Across the Curriculum and Reading Instruction That MOVES, teachers learn how to use purposeful movement to increase student engagement, deepen academic understanding, and bring learning to life. Blending easy-to-implement strategies, classroom management techniques, and hands-on activities, these workshops help educators integrate movement into literacy, core content instruction, and daily routines—creating fun, inclusive, and memorable learning experiences in classrooms, libraries, gyms, and beyond.
Our Book was designed to Inspire and empower School Staff
What Kind of Teacher Do You Want to Be?
This book invites you to reflect on the kind of teacher you aspire to be and empowers you to take meaningful steps toward becoming that teacher. Filled with practical tips, thoughtful questions, inspiring quotes, and real-life stories, it offers support for every aspect of your teaching journey. Whether you're navigating relationships with students, parents, colleagues, or administrators, or simply striving to stay grounded yourself, this book is here to guide and uplift you. It's designed not only to enrich your professional life, but also to support your well-being beyond the classroom. Now more than ever, educators need inspiration because our students have never needed us more.
The book is available in paperback and eBook. To buy in bulk for your University or School District, contact us at info@houselfitness.com
We offer FREE monthly Motivation for school staff
About our Teacher Thoughts Page
Now more than ever, teachers need encouragement and they deserve it. That’s why we launched our Teacher Thoughts page: to remind educators that what they do matters deeply. Your impact reaches beyond the classroom in powerful, often unseen ways.
This space is dedicated to uplifting and motivating you each month with meaningful reflections, real talk, and a whole lot of heart.
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We Also offer School assemblies and Author visits
Our school assembly and author visit are both interactive, educational, inspiring, empowering, thought-provoking, and just plain FUN! At times we will have your whole school up and moving! There will be plenty of surprises and laughs for all!