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The Relentless School Nurse: Who Gets to Learn? The Cruel New Reality for Undocumented Preschoolers

Relentless School Nurse

Preschool nurses who care for young children have a vital chance to promote prevention, equity, and access from the start. We monitor developmental milestones, identify early warning signs of health and learning challenges, support children with chronic conditions, and build trusting relationships with families. Preschool nursing is a sub-specialty of school nursing.

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A Parent’s Guide to Comforting Kids When News Is Frightening: Age-Appropriate Tips For Parents

Stanford Childrens

Children are often exposed to distressing news, experts say creating an open dialogue helps them process their emotions. In an age when information is readily accessible, children are often exposed to distressing news, from natural disasters to political unrest and everything in between. As a parent, you might wonder how to help your child process these often-overwhelming and tragic events.

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The Relentless School Nurse: NASN2025 and the Power of Our Collective Voice

Relentless School Nurse

Attending NASN2025 in Austin was a reunion of the heart. Imagine over 1000 school nurses gathered in one space, each carrying stories of the deep knowing that what we do matters. It’s powerful to be surrounded by people who get it —who understand the load we carry and the joy that keeps us coming back. I was immediately struck by the energy and optimism that filled every corner of the conference center.

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Gamification in PE

Drowning in the Shallow

What is gamification? Gamification as a teaching approach in PE is gaining popularity, but what exactly is it, why should it be used and how can it be implemented? Dichev and Dicheva’s (2017) critical literature review of the use of gamification in education is a useful place to start.

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Reimagine the Role of PE to Reconnect With Your Students

Speaker: Jeremy Kellem, M.Ed. - Educational Strategist, Former Athlete, and CEO/Founder of W.I.N. (We Impact Now, LLC)

For many students, physical education is critical to becoming active and developing healthy routines. But how is this possible anymore with the repercussions of the pandemic? Years of COVID-19, social distancing, and virtual learning have all had a profound effect on students, which means educators need to adjust their classes accordingly. The good news is that P.E. can still play a vital role in helping students intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially.

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Father’s Day Musings

Montessori Physical Education

The Ceremony That Started It All It started two years ago during my son's end-of-year ceremony in Children's House. As the kids came up to get a small memento and hug their teachers for the last time, little bits of information about them were shared with the class. They were the traditional questions: What is your favorite color? What is your favorite food?

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Educating Character Through Quality Physical Education: A Pedagogical Model

PE Scholar

This paper introduces Games-based Character Pedagogy, designed to integrate character education into Quality Physical Education.

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The Relentless School Nurse: When Public Policy Fails, Children Pay the Price

Relentless School Nurse

As school nurses, we are the sentinels of student health, on the frontlines of care, advocacy, and equity. We are not only caregivers but also witnesses to the daily realities that shape our communities and, ultimately, our nation’s future. From chronic absenteeism to unmet mental health needs, from hunger and housing instability to the trauma that walks through our doors in the bodies and behaviors of the children we serve, school nurses see it all.

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Firstbeat Sports Launches New Feature to Simplify Fitness Testing for Teams

First Beat

Developed based on real-world feedback from elite coaches, the new tool automates athlete fitness monitoring without disrupting a team’s regular training schedule. Firstbeat Sports has launched a powerful new Fitness Testing feature designed to make fitness testing for elite sports teams fast, reliable, and easy to implement throughout the season, with minimal disruption to regular training.

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How to Talk to Children About the Conflict in the Middle East

Stanford Childrens

Ways to help children feel comfortable expressing themselves People, including children, may be feeling stress and fear in light of the latest news of what is happening in the Middle East. Nowadays, kids have easier access to newsfeeds through social media, and seeing images of violence can cause concern and anxiety. While it can be daunting to figure out where to even start, experts say having these conversations is important.

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Making Sense of Game Sense in Physical Education

PE Scholar

A Game Sense approach to physical education (PE) prioritises the development of students' game understanding and decision-making abilities.

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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker

Physical education is an important part of the development of the whole person: physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively. By providing education in movement competency, education on using movement to develop the ability to be self-regulated and motivated, and education through movement to develop ‘habits of mind’ for positive and constructive engagement with others, PE provides a basis for personal and community health and wellbeing.

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Farm Fresh Learning: Students Taste, Shop, and Explore

PE for Parents

Skip to content Healthy Meals Incentives RMC Health Subscribe Fundraise ESP --> Resource Library Close Menu Resource Library Healthy Meals Incentives RMC Health Subscribe Fundraise ESP ESP Open Search Search for: What We Do Close Menu What We Do Family-School Partnerships We leverage family-school partnerships to build healthier communities where kids thrive.

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Empowering the Next Generation of Changemakers

Rennie Center

Skip to main content Contact Us Search Menu Who We Are Our Team Our Team Our Board Employment Learn About Us Our Mission and Theory of Action Our Commitment to Equity Our Story Support Us Our Supporters DONATE What We Do Our Services Actionable Research and Measurement Strategic Planning and Program Design Policy Review and Consultation Convening and Connecting Training & Professional Development Curriculum Ratings by Teachers Helping educators review and rate curricular materials Thriving

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Celebrating the End of Treatment With the Giants and Red Sox

Stanford Childrens

Tarun Thiara and his family pose with Buster Posey Brennan Bernardino of the Red Sox signs Tarun’s baseball Tarun Thiara, 17, was sitting in his hospital bed, receiving chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, when a Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Child Life specialist walked in. “Do you like baseball?” he asked. Tarun and his family smiled. Tarun and his brother, Rohan, both play baseball and they especially love the San Francisco Giants.

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Key features of Teaching Games for Understanding

PE Scholar

TGfU is a progressive approach to PE that prioritises the development of students' game understanding and decision-making abilities.

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From Underdogs To Architects: How Mid-Majors Could Redesign College Sports

Athletic Director U

As college athletics accelerates into its professionalized future, much of the national conversation has focused on the Power 4, and particularly how top-tier conferences will restructure, redistribute revenue, and maintain competitive equity in a post-House world. But what if the more interesting question isn’t about the top of the pyramid, but the base?

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The Relentless School Nurse: A Camp Reunion – Honoring Mentors and Legacy at NASN 2025

Relentless School Nurse

Illustration created by Gerri Harvey This week, I’m in Austin for the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) 2025 Annual Conference, and honestly? It feels a little like a camp reunion. There’s something special about being in a room full of school nurses from all across the country, people who truly understand.

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No Budget? No Problem: Smart School Marketing That Costs Nothing

FACTS Management

Discover how your school can boost enrollment and visibility without spending a dime. Read on for practical, no-cost marketing tips from FACTS experts.

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Models-based practice: Health based PE explained

PE Scholar

Health based PE: A more holistic approach that integrates physical activity with health education to empower students to lead healthy lives.

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Pre-Season Planning in Soccer: Why Heart Rate Still Matters

First Beat

Every coach knows that the pre-season is vital. It sets the tone for the rest of the campaign. If you get it wrong, you can spend months trying to catch up. The pre-season is a critical period as it focuses on building the physiological, psychological, and technical foundation from which peak performance is developed during the in-season.  But how do you know if players are adapting well?

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The Relentless School Nurse: Storytelling Is Our Strength – Bridging the Gap Between Perception and Reality in School Nursing

Relentless School Nurse

The Most Important Work Happens in the Quiet Moments Every day, behind the door of the health office, stories unfold—stories of resilience, worry, courage, and connection. They rarely make headlines. No one live-tweets the moment a terrified student with asthma learns to trust their inhaler or the quiet exchange when a child confides about chaos at home.

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Big Moves in a Small School: How One PE Teacher Brings Fun Every Day

Gopher Sport

Meet Coach Jose from The Builders School in the Philippians Coach Jose Magpantay Jr. teaches Physical Education in a very small school called The Builders School. How small? Just 20 students! But even with a tiny school, Coach Jose makes a big impact. He teaches two PE classes, one for Grades 1 to 3 (11 Students) and one for Grades 4 to 6 (9 Students).

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FACTS in Practice: A Day in the Life of a FACTS Parent

FACTS Management

Visit our blog to learn more about how FACTS impacts the day-to-day lives of parents at partner schools, from admissions to financial aid.

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PE Insights Episode 53 Dr Irfan Khawaja – Ramadan guidance for PE, schools and educators

PE Scholar

Dr Irfan Khawaja discusses his Ramadan guidance, backed by the Association for PE, Youth Sport Trust, and Muslim Council of Britain.

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Building The College Athletics Front Office For The Revenue Share Era

Athletic Director U

What does a functioning front office look like in the revenue share era of college sports? Most athletic departments are about to find out whether they’re ready or not. AthleticDirectorU brings together The Athlete Group's Jake Rosenberg and St. Bonaventure GM Adrian Wojnarowski to unpack what it actually takes to professionalize a college athletic department.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Legislation Doesn’t End When It’s Signed. It Begins.

Relentless School Nurse

To the lawmakers who passed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” if you’re going to legislate our children’s lives, you should first look them in the eyes. Legislation doesn’t end when it’s signed. It begins. And the consequences land hard on the shoulders of school nurses, educators, and families. This is a public invitation to lawmakers: Spend a day in a school nurse’s office.

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June 2025: Student Changemakers

Rennie Center

Skip to main content Contact Us Search Menu Who We Are Our Team Our Team Our Board Employment Learn About Us Our Mission and Theory of Action Our Commitment to Equity Our Story Support Us Our Supporters DONATE What We Do Our Services Actionable Research and Measurement Strategic Planning and Program Design Policy Review and Consultation Convening and Connecting Training & Professional Development Curriculum Ratings by Teachers Helping educators review and rate curricular materials Thriving

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A Cosmic Day at the Movies: Patients have A Special Screening of Disney and Pixar’s ‘Elio’

Stanford Childrens

Pixar animator Andrew Beall shows his drawing of Pixar character ‘Glordon’ to Cynthia Meza. At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford , excitement filled the halls as hospitalized young patients anticipated a heartwarming event. In a gesture of compassion and community, the hospital hosted a special screening of Disney and Pixar’s latest original feature film, Elio.

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PE Teachers – taking Pride in what we do

PE Scholar

Pride Month offers a chance for PE teachers to model acceptance, challenge discrimination, and foster a culture of belonging.

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Creating to Learn: How Arts & Crafts Build Skills That Drive Student Success 

S&S

Creative time isn’t just for fun; it’s also an opportunity to develop essential skills that support learning in the classroom and beyond. Arts and crafts give students the chance to experiment, explore ideas, and follow their curiosity. But they also … Read More The post Creating to Learn: How Arts & Crafts Build Skills That Drive Student Success appeared first on S&S Blog.

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Strive for Excellence, Not Perfection

A Positive Approach To Teen Health

I’m a perfectionist by nature. My get-it-right attitude seeps into work, family, and social interactions. My kids, husband, and co-workers expect me to correct grammatical errors on social media posts and in books I’m reading. I can’t help it. I desperately want the tasks I’m performing to be perfect. And if they aren’t, well … my self-talk reflects my defeated mentality.

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The Result of Overscheduling Kids

RC Families

Overscheduling kids has become a way of life for may families. Many parents fill children’s calendars with sports, lessons, and other extracurricular activities. But this lack of downtime has been linked to anxiety, sleep disturbances, and overstimulation in children. It can result in stress, and even a loss of creativity or joy. If you are.

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The Commodification of Breath: Parsing Fact from Fiction in the Gilded Age of Breathwork and Breathing Influencers

AASP

We are living through a breathing renaissance… at least, it appears that way given the number of books and TikTok videos on breathwork. According to authors and influencers, modern humans have “forgotten” how to breathe. The consequences, they argue, are a cascade of severe health conditions ranging from asthma and facial malformation to ADHD and depression.

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KS2 Athletics: an introduction to throwing

PE Scholar

One-page guides designed to support PE teachers and non-specialist teachers in confidently delivering lessons in javelin, shotput and discus

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Start Strong: 5 Essentials Every Afterschool Program Needs This Back to School Season 

S&S

A new school year brings fresh energy and is the perfect time to take stock and restock. Whether you’ve got a solid system or are still building the foundation of your afterschool program, having the right materials on hand sets … Read More The post Start Strong: 5 Essentials Every Afterschool Program Needs This Back to School Season appeared first on S&S Blog.

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The Impact Of Realignment On Revenue Generation With LEARFIELD, Fresno State & Utah State

Athletic Director U

LEARFIELD Executive Vice President Deana Barnes sits down with Fresno State Director of Athletics Garrett Klassy and Utah State Vice President & Athletics Director Diana Sabau to discuss the impact of conference realignment on revenue generation opportunities.

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