SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Riding For Focus and the Outride Fund are great places to start, as well as checking with your local hospitals/clinics, professional sports teams, and local businesses. He has been teaching for 17 years and resides in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, where he enjoys coaching and exploring the outdoors with his wife and three sons.

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SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

National PE & Sport Week (May 1-7) is just about here. And with the celebration of healthy lifestyles, active minds and bodies, let’s reflect on the importance of physical education and sports. SHAPE America’s National PE & Sport Week allows us to showcase, promote, advocate, and show off our best ideas.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cara has served and supported SHAPE America and SHAPE Maryland through service, training, Twitter chats (@CaraGrant11), coaching, mentoring, as a contributing author, and as a member of the SHAPE America EDI Podcast team. in kinesiology (sport pedagogy) and an M.S. She has an Ed.D. He has a Ph.D.

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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

SuperSafe Floor Hockey: A Unique and Safe Way to Teach Hockey in PE DOM Sports Hockey season is here! When it comes to introducing young players to the game of hockey, safety and performance are top priorities for teachers and coaches. About the Author: DOM Sports Win a DOM Supersafe Floor Hockey Set! (A

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Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

More, Younger Youth sports occupy a special place in American culture, shaping childrens character, health, and social lives. Across the United States, an increasing number of parents and coachesoften with good intentionsseek to introduce sports to children at younger and younger ages and with greater intensity than ever before.

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Changing the Game Project

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

All of those things come together in high school sports and that’s why I love them. He experienced many leadership challenges, a new coach and style of play, and all the inevitable ups and downs that high school teams have. That’s why I love school sports. This is why I put my kids in sports.

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SHAPE America

MAY 24, 2022

I have always loved sports and participated in them my whole life. While the boys classes had a full array of sports and other activities, girls classes were mainly focused on exercise, marching, jumping rope, and being graded on the cleanliness and color of your sneakers and gym uniforms! So, I coached the team myself.

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Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Every Sport Has Its Defining Moment Every sport has its defining momentthat one skill athletes spend years perfecting. Few sports give you a true, measurable way to achieve perfection, but in bowling, its real. Its a sport of precision, mental focus, and strategy. In basketball, its the shot that could beat the buzzer.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The effects of vaping on youth is a focus for researchers, youth sports coaches, federal government agencies, and the media. 8 Tips to Help Young Athletes Defeat Vaping As a coach or a teacher, you’re in an excellent position to help young athletes understand the risks of vaping. Study the opposition. Study the film.

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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the world of international education, there are those who simply teach, and then there are educators like Allison Deakin, Head of Department for Elementary PE and Swimming, JV & Varsity Badminton Coach, and former Activities Coordinator at GEMS Dubai American Academy (DAA).

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It’s simply not enough movement, especially for kids who are less involved in extracurricular sports. As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine. Teach students how to learn and to love learning. And all of these numbers fall under the recommended minimum of 10,000 steps per day.

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SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

Steven was a joy to teach with and so very knowledgeable. It came with a top-notch Bluetooth speaker, subscription to the service, and the Billie Jean King Eye Coach (think batting tee for tennis). We have the bikes at my school for as long as we use them and teach the nutrition curriculum. Open —and we were accepted!

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SHAPE America

MAY 31, 2022

negotiating facilities use agreements, requesting funds from higher administration for women’s athletics, negotiating with faculty about academic vs. coaching duties). million, while women’s athletics received only a few thousand dollars from the Intramural Sports Club budget. Volunteer Coaches. A two-year timeline was set.

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Learning Through Sport

MARCH 23, 2025

School sport participation can be a conversation conundrum. I know many people don't have positive experiences with sport. I reckon that the research shows this is how the coach and others 'construct' and input into the sport environment rather than being inherent to sport itself. 1999; Westerbeek et al.,

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Active Schools Us

MARCH 24, 2021

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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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This is not easy to talk about on as they are those in the fraternity who take this very seriously and equates it to effective teaching, especially the more experienced teachers. How about sport/game skills or abilities? Using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) terminologies, what is the impact on Autonomy, Relatedness and Competence?

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Aspire-Ed

MARCH 5, 2024

We aim to empower KS1 and KS2 teachers, professionals, coaches and trainees like you through some of the best CPD courses available. Our CPD courses are designed to cater to the diverse needs of all educators and coaches. Inclusivity and adaptability are at the core of our values at Aspire:ED.

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The PE Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Breaking Boundaries: Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools As summer fast approaches (hopefully bringing the sunny weather with it), so do the ‘summer sports’ in PE. Each of these activities comes with different challenges when teaching in primary schools. However, this does not have to be the case.

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The Everlearner

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This post is written for PE teachers or those teaching or coaching young people in an educational setting.

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RC Families

JUNE 2, 2025

Teaching resilience to kids was something that my husband and I strongly believed in as we raised three children who are now adults in their 30s. We knew it was an important trait for them to learn, especially in the sports they all played through college. But it wasn’t until lately that I was reminded. Read More

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SHAPE America

JUNE 8, 2022

Growing up, I really had no idea that there were inequities when it came to girls and boys sports. Here are just a few of the differences that were firmly in place while I was growing up: Organized sports for boys (Little League, CYO, etc.) This was my first opportunity to participate in an organized sport. More Battles.

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SHAPE America

JUNE 6, 2024

Drawing from 12 years of experience as a coxswain in the sport of rowing and eight years as an officer in the Marine Corps, the parallels between these seemingly disparate domains are pretty apparent. I quickly became a professional student of the sport and learned as much as I could. Find out more about Promoted Content.

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Gopher Sport

JUNE 27, 2025

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. But even with a tiny school, Coach Jose makes a big impact. He says sports made him a better person. Just 20 students! Favorite Equipment?

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MSU

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Jennifer Roth Michigan State University, Institute for the Study of Youth Sports The youth sport environment can be a great place for youth to learn important life skills that they can transfer to other areas of their lives. Recently, in the United States, there has been an increase in the professionalization of youth sport.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Town/neighborhood: I have lived in San Tan Valley for over 12 years, but I teach at Faith Mather Sossaman in the Queen Creek Unified School District. What I do: I’m one of the physical education teachers at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School, currently in my 18th year teaching in Arizona.

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Changing the Game Project

JULY 16, 2024

The other day I had a conversation with a therapist and youth sports advocate who is doing some great work in building greater connection between coaches, athletes and parents. This environment contributes a great deal to the 70% dropout rate in youth sports by age 13, yet it persists, and continues to expand.

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AASP

DECEMBER 21, 2022

” - </em>David Parkin (Sport Australia Hall of Fame).</p> The end of a sporting career can be felt as a significant loss in an athlete’s life, especially if the end of their career was premature or not freely chosen, such as in the case of a career ending injury (Stephan, 2003).

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Changing the Game Project

APRIL 3, 2024

Both programs also want to keep pushing to the next level, to compete for national The post Winning Vs Fulfillment: How Society Teaches Us to Focus on the Wrong Things in Youth Sports appeared first on Changing the Game Project.

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Learning Through Sport

MAY 25, 2021

Three primary practices encompass athlete-centred coaching. - As former All Black's coach Wayne Smith is famous for saying, "better people make better players". An expanded 'teaching' agenda (developing life skills as well as playing ability), democracy in action and athlete empowerment feed into the development of Team Culture.

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Better Coaching

JANUARY 22, 2017

Youth sports coaches are the men and women who volunteer their time to teach our youth the many life lessons we can acquire through sports. However, my experience as a youth sports coach has allowed me to observe many coaches conducting practices, games, post-game speeches, and clinics. Really, coach?

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Montessori Physical Education

MARCH 5, 2023

It would be closer to How to Create a Montessori Sports Program: Avoid the Pitfalls and Stay True to the Method. A little bit of history about sports and my school: no afterschool sports teams existed when I started teaching at Rogers Park Montessori School sixteen years ago.

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Drowning in the Shallow

AUGUST 26, 2024

Over that time I have blogged 369 times (including this one) and have written just over 400,000 words mainly on physical education, sport, physical activity, teaching, coaching and teacher education. Today marks the 10th anniversary of this blog. Looking back I’m unsure why I started blogging.

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Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In a previous blog (available here ) I considered the idea of meaningful understanding of sport using a game based approach. In this blog, I explore the concept of meaningful sport further. Sport is a highly valued social activity. Sport as useful. Sport as understood. Teaching for understanding argument.

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Montessori Physical Education

MARCH 19, 2023

Part one of Why Your Montessori School Needs Sports featured the history of the Rogers Park Montessori School basketball program. In it, I recounted the humble origins of the program, including the initial resistance to sports being introduced into a Montessori school. Like a Montessori classroom, we must prepare the environment.

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Learning Through Sport

JULY 13, 2021

There are many versions of game-based approache s to sport teaching and coaching. However, it is more accurate to think of a GBA as a range of teaching styles or a “toolkit” of styles. We show a GBA can be many teaching styles to players, which invokes the metaphor of the GBA as a pedagogical toolkit.

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Whole Child Sports

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In addition, the boards replicate board sports (skateboarding, snowboarding, surfng) movements. It also strengthens the supporting ligaments and muscles around his ankles, knees, and hips, which can help keep your child playing sports injury free (Stages One and Two). Vew-Do NUB Boards. Frisbees, tennis balls, and NERF balls.

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MSU

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

She is 7 years old and attends the same K-12 school that I teach at. I enjoy working out, coaching basketball (junior high and Michigan Tech University) and playing golf in my spare time. My favorite SCLA course has got to be KIN 846 – Sociocultural Issues for Sport Practitioners.

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