4th-grade PE students had an audience at Highland Park Elementary School this morning.

Physical-education professionals are gathered in Seattle for the SHAPE (Society of Health and Physical Educators) America national convention this week, and today dozens of them visited several SPS campuses to check out unique programs, such as flag football that’s played at HPES as part of an NFL collaboration:

Teacher Kevin Schmidt leads this program at Highland Park.

What the kids showed off today are drills they do after their teacher explains the objective, as the students write it down:

Once they have grasped the goal, it’s on with the drill. Highland Park Elementary, by the way, was the only West Seattle stop for the visitors from the conference, and it was the first school they visited on their all-day citywide tour.