Matt Durando ’96, P’30 has an MBA, but, since 2006, he has been teaching Lower School students that athletics is more than just winning or losing. Matt made a career change from business to teaching after 9/11, encouraged by educators in his family. “As a P.E. teacher, each day touches upon gross motor development, fine motor skills, explosiveness, hand/eye coordination, and improving a skill set. What can be neglected are the social-emotional topics that arise in a P.E. setting. At the Lower School, we teach sportsmanship and focus on friendly competition and implementing new strategies. When a team loses a tough game, figuring out where the mistakes were made and creating a plan to fix them is so important. So many life lessons are learned when this happens. Teammates talk, communicate, collaborate, support each other; it is an amazing sight to see. I love the feelings they share when their adjustments work.”
Athletics Lower School