Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

Its simplicity allows for easy adaptation to different age groups and skill levels, making it an excellent tool for PE teachers looking to diversify their curriculum. Focused Attention: Teachers can observe and provide feedback more easily, ensuring each student gets the support they need to improve their skills.

Fitness

Gopher Sport

JUNE 27, 2025

Meet Coach Jose from The Builders School in the Philippians Coach Jose Magpantay Jr. But even with a tiny school, Coach Jose makes a big impact. The Builders School is a special place where students, teachers, and parents all work together to help kids grow. That’s why he became a PE teacher. Just 20 students!

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

I have had the privilege of leading workshops at the **NYSAHPERD Conference**, where I guided PE teachers in implementing bowling units effectively. But more importantly, Ive seen how bowling can bring people togetherbetween a father and son, between teammates, between a PE teacher and their students.

PE

Learning Through Sport

MARCH 23, 2025

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. School sport participation can be a conversation conundrum. I know many people don't have positive experiences with sport.

Sports

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When it comes to introducing young players to the game of hockey, safety and performance are top priorities for teachers and coaches. Incorporating floor hockey into a physical education curriculum is a great way to get kids motivated and involved in physical activity. Finding the right equipment can make all the difference.

Teaching

Gopher Sport

JULY 16, 2025

We help PE teachers and coaches make a difference by providing the best equipment to encourage healthy, active lifestyles. But don’t just take our word for it, hear directly from PE teachers across the country about why Gopher is their first choice. Continuously innovate to better serve teachers and coaches.

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

MAY 22, 2025

We send out a Google Form and teachers request them, then either a coach or the teacher picks them up from the warehouse. Teachers use a simple online form to request one. After they request, someone from facilities or even the teacher themselves picks it up from a central warehouse. The interest is amazing.

Schooling

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School is devoted to making sure students exercise their bodies along with their brains. Her devotion paid off when she earned an honorable mention at the Arizona Educational Foundation’s 2025 Teacher of the Year Awards in October.

Education

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

As a PE teacher in a Montessori school, I know my situation is unique compared to PE teachers in traditional schools. My class sizes are smaller than the horror stories I read about on Facebook from teachers who have to manage fifty or more students at a time.

PE Teacher

The PE Geek

JANUARY 7, 2025

With hundreds of thousands of downloads in this category, its clear that educators, trainers, and coaches are seeking tools to support their work. This major update takes fitness testing to the next level, making it simpler, smarter, and more impactful for educators, coaches, and individuals.

Fitness

The Everlearner

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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

PE

Magnus Health

APRIL 24, 2025

Teachers, nurses, athletic staff, and faculty can help decrease student stress levels. It’s not up to the teacher to fix the stress, as it’s unlikely that stress is coming from you. Teachers can incorporate breathwork into the classroom as well. Instead, it’s about holding space for the child.

Nervous system

MSU

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I am a 6-12th PE and Health teacher for the last three years at Baraga Area Schools. I enjoy working out, coaching basketball (junior high and Michigan Tech University) and playing golf in my spare time. This course linked the real world problems/societal norms with coaching.

Coaching

Lampe

JUNE 2, 2025

As a passionate educator, PE teacher, manager, and sports coach, Ive always believed in the transformative power of physical activity. My journey toward implementing Meaningful PE (MPE) began with a simple yet profound desire: to create an environment where every student can engage, enjoy, and thrive through physical education.

PE Teacher

FACTS Management

JUNE 13, 2025

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Assessment

PLT4M

JULY 2, 2025

Whether you’re a veteran teacher or new to health education, this guide will offer clear insight into what skills-based health education looks like—and how it can come to life in your classroom. >>> Get Our FREE Health E-Book!

Health Education

PLT4M

JULY 30, 2025

Coaches need tools that help them plan, deliver, and adapt workouts for a wide range of student-athletes. >>> Free Download: The Essential Guide To Teaching Weight Training What Coaches Look For in a Strength and Conditioning Program Template Coaches want a clear structure that organizes lifts, movements, and conditioning pieces.

Strength

Physical Education Update

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s almost March break and teachers will soon be getting a long-deserved week of rest and recovery. Now, there are those who claim that teachers are overpaid for the amount of time they work and the number of holidays they receive. Teachers must be “on” for an entire school day. Do teachers deserve their holidays?

Teacher

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. Nilo was a preK-8 PE teacher and coach before going to higher education. She has an Ed.D. He has a Ph.D.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As American society and schools experience growing diversity and interconnectedness, our responsibilities as teachers must embrace pedagogical approaches that nurture and celebrate diversity, inclusion, and empathy. In this way, there is shared responsibility in addressing inequities and other systemic barriers.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

They are cautionary tales for teens and their teachers about the importance of avoiding vaping and living nicotine free. Many teens will face similar challenges, but youth vaping is preventable, and teachers like you can help. Be proactive and address the dangers of vaping as part of your teaching and coaching strategy.

Physical Fitness

SHAPE America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Gaining National Recognition status for your physical education teacher education (PETE) and/or health education teacher education (HETE) program begins with accreditation, which is a review of the quality of your educator preparation program(s). In addition, the teacher education program is reviewed as a whole, not by content area.

Assessment

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LESSONS FROM HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATORS We need health and physical education (HPE) teachers to flood classrooms at all levels with ideas and inspiration. HPE teachers already have it figured out! Teachers will notice a boost in student focus and attention span after a movement break.

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.

Motor Skills

Physical Education Update

JANUARY 27, 2023

Before you head off for your summer holidays, I thought I’d leave you with a demonstration of character by an All-Star professional basketball player and coach. But he’s only demonstrating the same ethics and motivations that drive most of our scholastic PE teachers and coaches.

Coaching

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.

Coaching

SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There are three main differences between the updated curriculum and the previous one: The lacrosse curriculum has been expanded to provide resources for teachers at a greater number of grade levels. Teachers should always remember that “equity” does not mean “equality.” Charlie has been playing and/or coaching lacrosse for 35 years.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

As an elementary physical education teacher in the Bronx, NY, I’m always looking for ways to stretch my PE budget and introduce my students to new physical activities. It came with a top-notch Bluetooth speaker, subscription to the service, and the Billie Jean King Eye Coach (think batting tee for tennis).

Physical Education

SHAPE America

JUNE 2, 2022

The coach made every effort to make me feel uncomfortable and unwelcome — making a huge deal about ensuring I was part of the “shirts” team and not the “skins” team … and insisting that he didn’t have a key to let me into the girls locker room after practice. I asked a teacher to help me write a letter to the Board of Education.

High School

SHAPE America

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you are a teacher, coach, counselor, or parent of teens, you know they are not immune to stress at this time of year. After a busy year, taking downtime to relax and reflect is important and well-deserved. Sometimes the holidays also include stress and anxiety, which affect people for different reasons.

Exercise

SHAPE America

JUNE 8, 2022

Our coach would run drills and teach us the rules, and we would play friendly games among ourselves. I started coaching girls athletics in the late 1980s. Megaera Regan Megaera Regan is a retired elementary physical education teacher from the Port Washington School District on Long Island. More Battles.

Elementary

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). The 1971 yearbook notes that women’s intercollegiate teams were “coached by members of the women’s Physical Education Department and sponsored by the Intramural Department.

Academics

Reinventing the Game

MARCH 13, 2021

I can sort of make out who the coach, the physical trainer, the assistants, etc. The next understanding that I wanted was what if the same group of learners pass through different teachers at any one learning phase of their life, e.g. in a term. Can this teacher constraint go as far as changing internal learning mechanisms?

Physical Education

Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

You may still find older teachers and school curriculum still clinging to it. It doesn’t help that evaluation process across subjects prefer clear quantitative data to compare teacher performances. the intent of task itself and the environment that the learner works in), other than teacher instructions. Or is it not?

Physical Education

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Here are some tips to help you get started: For Teachers: Advocate for more outdoor recess and field days. Reach out to your local school’s physical education teacher for more information and opportunities. Being outside, being active, and enjoying time with your friends and peers is the definition of a full-body workout.

Physical Activity

PE Scholar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

PE Scholar provides a wide range of professional development for teachers,coaches and education professionals working in physical education, sport

PE

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. Looking back I’m unsure why I started blogging.

Physical Education