Pocket PE™ is an evidence-based PE curriculum app developed by child development scientists and educators to eliminate real-world school constraints and deliver standards-based physical education to every student, everywhere.
To empower educators with the evidence-based tools and resources to lead confident, effective, and engaging Physical Education for every student, everywhere.
A future where movement and learning go hand-in-hand, supported by educators who feel empowered and well-equipped.
Every child deserves the opportunity to experience the joy and lifelong benefits of movement.
And behind those opportunities are educators.
PE specialists who are working to reach hundreds of students across a school on any given day. Classroom teachers finding ways to incorporate movement to already-full days. Administrators balancing schedules, staffing, budgets, and state requirements while trying to do what is best for their students.
These are the people who make physical education possible.
And we believe they deserve better support.
That belief is at the heart of Pocket PE.
For years, our founder, Dr. Jeanette Ricci, studied children’s physical activity, motor development, and the role movement plays in healthy development. Through that work, one thing became increasingly clear: schools cared deeply about helping children move, but the realities of delivering consistent, high-quality physical education often made that difficult.
The problem wasn’t a lack of commitment.
Educators were being asked to do a lot with limited time, staffing, space, equipment, and planning resources.
In some schools, PE specialists are responsible for more students than their schedules can possibly reach. In others, classroom teachers are asked to help provide physical education even though it may not be their area of training. And from school to school, the space and resources available for PE can look completely different.
Through those observations we kept coming back to the same question:
How can we provide tools to educators who provide physical education that adapt to their specific teaching environments and resources?
That question became Pocket PE.
With support from federal research funding through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Ricci and a multidisciplinary team of researchers, educators, and advisors spent years developing and evaluating a different kind of physical education resource grounded in science, shaped by teachers, and designed around the realities of schools.
Pocket PE was never intended to replace educators or professional judgment.
We built it to give PE specialists and classroom teachers practical, research-based tools that can make their work a little more manageable: adaptable, on-demand standards-aligned lessons, instructional video support, movement breaks, and class-level tracking of PE minutes and standards taught.
For PE specialists, that can mean having more tools to lead, collaborate, and extend their impact beyond the gym.
For classroom teachers, it can mean feeling more supported and confident when they’re asked to help students move.
And for schools, it can mean bringing educators together around a shared goal: giving more children access to meaningful, high-quality physical education without increasing the burden on teaching staff.
Every Pocket PE lesson is intentionally developed through research, standards alignment, and collaboration with educators. Our instructional content is human-created, not AI-generated because we believe the people teaching our children deserve resources they can trust.
We know Pocket PE won’t solve every challenge facing physical education in schools, but we believe it can be part of something bigger.
We believe in supporting the people who make physical education possible.
We believe movement and learning belong together.
And we believe that when educators have the support they need, more children have the opportunity to build confidence, develop lifelong movement skills, and discover that being active can be one of the most joyful parts of their day.
That’s why we built Pocket PE.
