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MAY 21, 2023

Education is a dynamic field that constantly evolves to meet the changing needs of students. Everyone connected to the school system must be ready to pivot to accommodate the latest research and best practices. Professional development is essential for providing teachers, administrators, and other school staff opportunities to enhance the educational experience.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Sports activities are more than just sources of entertainment in schools. Unfortunately, the Aspen Institute reports that less than 4 in 10 high school students participate in sports, and fewer than 25 percent of students meet the recommended level of regular physical activity. While many enjoy watching sports competitions, most students don’t participate due to grade requirements, scheduling conflicts, and structure, among other factors.

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MARCH 9, 2023

By: Jim Hambel I would like to dedicate this article to the memory of my maternal grandmother, Bernice Lefkowitz. She passed away before the new year began. I am very fortunate to have known her in my life. Although I didn’t meet her until I was 10, she had a big impact on my life. My parents divorced when I was 10. While I am now a calm person, as a child, I was so angry.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

5 Ways Teachers Can Support Workday Wellness While Improving their Practice and the School Culture . By: Lisa Paulson. Kristian Ellingson. Francina Hollingsworth. 1- Become so focused on working, improving, and reaching outside your comfort zone while you are at work that you do not have time to engage in and elevate the gossip and complaining that occurs in many schools.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

What a year! I started my role as Active Schools Manager in September of 2021, so 2022 was my first full calendar year in this position. I love it more and more every day and I am grateful to Charlene Burgeson for giving me the opportunity to join the team. However, this is not about me. Due to our strategic partnerships, dedicated committees and work groups, and the collective impact of Champions worldwide, Active Schools has accomplished a great deal!

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

By: Collin A. Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Sport Pedagogy. University of Birmingham Dubai. Walt Whitman’s well-known 1865 poem “O Captain! My Captain!” about an intrepid sea captain’s death at the end of a victorious voyage is a metaphorical tribute to Abraham Lincoln. In 1989, the movie “Dead Poets Society” capitalized on the poem’s title and themes to personify the inspirational attribute of undaunted leadership through the character of Mr.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

by: Aaron Hart. OPENPhysEd.org. I’ve spent much of my career working with and talking to hundreds of physical educators around the United States. As a result, I’ve collected some important words of wisdom over the years. Most of those gems focus on the importance of building a network of support with parents and like-minded colleagues. For many physical educators, parents come into our classrooms with deeply held preconceptions – both good and bad.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

By: Kelly Cornett, MS. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted all aspects of daily life, including school operations and the capacity for schools to meet students’ physical and emotional needs. CDC aims to gain a better understanding of the pandemic’s impact on student health and to leverage evidence-based strategies to reduce that impact.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Danielle Branciforti has taught PE for 30 years. She has been at the Hebrew Academy for Special Children in Woodmere, NY for the last year and a half. . Active Schools: How has the pandemic changed PE for you and your students?? . Danielle: It’s been a disaster – trying to do PE remotely is such a disservice to the students, all of whom have some developmental, behavioral, or some physical limitations.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

¿Cómo va ese dicho: la familia que camina 50 millas juntos en Yellowstone, es una triunfadora en la educación física? Bien, puede que no sea un dicho real, pero es una realidad para Grace Federico, madre de dos hijos de Pueblo, Colorado, y su familia. El amor de Grace por la actividad física se lo transmitió su padre, y es algo que ella y su esposo, a su vez, transmitieron a sus hijos, un hijo de 17 años y una hija de 11 años.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

( Leer en español. ). How does that saying go – the family who hikes 50 miles in Yellowstone together champions PE together? Ok, so that might not be a real adage, but it’s reality for Grace Federico, a mom of two from Pueblo, Colorado, and her family. Grace’s love of being active was passed down from her own father, and it’s something that she and her husband have, in turn, passed on to their own kids, a 17-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

por Kelly Thew. Roswell, GA. Un motivador maestro de educación física y una escuela que invierte en la educación física, pueden marcar la diferencia. Como madre de un niño de primer grado que ha estado asistiendo a la escuela de forma virtual, prácticamente desde marzo del 2020 y un niño de 4 años que participa en algunas de las lecciones, hasta el año pasado fui ingenua en cuanto a lo importante que es la educación física para la capacidad de aprendizaje de un niño.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

by Kelly Thew. Roswell, GA. ( Leer en español.). An encouraging PE teacher and a school that invests in PE can make all the difference. As the parent of a first grader who has been going to school virtually since March 2020 and a 4-year-old who tags along for some of the lessons, I was naïve to how critical PE is to a child’s ability to learn until this past year.

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MARCH 24, 2021

by Rob Bisceglie. CEO, Action for Healthy Kids. As a basketball fanatic and coach, I challenge all sports fans and caring community members to take a quick break from March Madness to advocate for one often overlooked part of our education system that is critical to the development of the student athletes who are wowing us during this year’s tournament: physical education.

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APRIL 1, 2022

By: Charlene Burgeson. Executive Director, Active Schools. We have a problem. Fortunately, there is a solution. The problem is that three quarters of our nation’s youth are not regularly active. Data from CDC pretty much tells the story: less than one-quarter (24%) of children 6 to 17 years of age participate in 60 minutes of physical activity every day.

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MARCH 30, 2022

_. Calming & Refocusing Strategies for the Classrooms. Presenters: VA CMO Cadre partnered with Fauquier County, VA FRESH Program. Incorporating movement into the classroom can be stressful without the proper routines to calm and refocus students. This workshop will provide a variety of tools, tips, and techniques to help teachers navigate the transitions between sessions of physical activity.

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MAY 2, 2022

Let’s Play! By: Nick Kline. Active Schools Manager. I love to play! My wife often tells me that she has two kids. Little does she know, I take this as a compliment! Our three-year-old son is so much fun and I look forward to leaving work to play with him! . I don’t claim to be an expert on this topic. There are others out there with many more letters after their name than I have.

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MAY 24, 2022

By: Brian Dauenhauer, Ph.D., Associate Professor. University of Northern Colorado. By now, everyone knows the extensive benefits of physical activity. Schools, in particular, seem to be becoming more aware that they need to take a wholistic approach to education based on a Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model (WSCC; Lewallen et al., 2015) and physical activity is an essential component of any whole-of-school approach.

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