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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

The gym is not the only place where students can move, interact and learn by doing. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym! They perform better on standardized and functional assessments. Much of physical education is based on: An active approach; Experiential learning; and Student collaboration.

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5 BRAND NEW Gopher Exclusive Products for Ultimate Fun!

Gopher PE

Plus, with their vibrant colors and customizable banners, these pits will add a pop of excitement to any gym or playground. The AssessPro Jump Board is here to take your vertical jump assessments to the next level. Get ready to roll, dive, and dodge in the coolest Gaga experience ever!

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5 Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in School

SHAPE America

LGBTQ+ students most commonly avoided school bathrooms, locker rooms, and physical education or gym classes, with approximately 4 in 10 students avoiding each of these spaces because they felt unsafe or uncomfortable (45.1%, 42.6%, and 39.4% I encourage you to read the full report, but some highlights include: 81.8% respectively).

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New Course: Teaching an Enriched Primary Gymnastics Curriculum

Aspire-Ed

With this brand new course from Ryan Bradley, former international gymnast and founder and director of RB Gym & Sport. The course gives you the skills, knowledge and confidence to plan, teach and assess primary gymnastics. To support the planning and assessment of gymnastics in your primary school. What will you learn?

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Conquer Curriculum Planning with Confidence!

Gopher PE

I can look ahead and prepare for unit by unit by gathering the equipment, forming assessments, and reflecting on meeting the appropriate SHAPE standards and benchmarks. Curriculum planning can help you assess your equipment into what you have, what you need, and what you may need to replace prior to the unit occurring.

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BRING ON THE SUMMER BREAK!!!

Arizona Health and Physical Education

We’re all ready to put the equipment away (hopefully somewhat organized), submit those final progress reports or grades, and shut the gym, wrestling room, multipurpose room doors for at least 6ish weeks. Ok, so I get that we are in the last month of school and the last thing you’re thinking about is professional development.

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Imagine a New Physical Education

Heartzones

Guessing is not assessing. Imagine as all students enter the gym, their first task is to take responsibility for their own learning by placing their numbered heart rate sensor on their arm then starting it with the push of a button. Generally, fifty percent of a physical education grade is based on effort.