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2023 Journey of Active Schools

Active Schools Us

It has been a year filled with growth, collaboration, and impactful initiatives that have brought us closer to our mission of ensuring the integration of evidence-based physical activity programs into every student’s PK-12 education. Together, we encouraged schools nationwide to embrace the benefits of active learning.

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Leveraging Physical Activity in Schools to Address Pandemic-Related Health Disparities

Active Schools Us

Since the widespread school closures to prevent COVID-19 transmission in March 2020, CDC has created new channels for collecting data to monitor the pandemic’s impact. Baseline data were collected from October through November 2020, with follow-up data collection in March and April 2021.

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Get Your Green On! 12 Lucky St. Patrick's Day Games for a Shamrockin' PE Class!

Physical Education Ideas

Patrick's Day-themed games will have your students feeling the luck and joy of the Irish while getting active and building valuable skills. The Games: Leprechaun Gold Rush (Kindergarten to Grade 2 - Run and Collect Game): Description: Scatter gold-colored balls (Leprechaun gold) around the gym. Patrick's Day gold?

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Teaching Lacrosse in Physical Education Using the New USA Lacrosse Curriculum

SHAPE America

This expansion helps introduce the sport at younger ages (which mirrors the growth of the sport across the country) and helps reinforce many of the transferable skills that students are learning at those grade levels — but in a new way, with a new activity. The other standards are outcomes you could address using similar activities.

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5 Tips for Moving Your Career Forward as a Health and Physical Education Teacher

SHAPE America

Enter the interview armed with the knowledge you’ve collected and be prepared to answer. a digital age, and it’s no longer a question of if you need to connect through social media, it’s more a matter of how. This isn’t possible, though, unless we are actively seeking empowerment for our own journey. We live in.

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A Commitment to Data Security for K-12 Schools: Inside Look

FACTS Management

In our digital age, schools increasingly store student information online, which presents new risks and challenges. Firewalls and intrusion detection systems allow us to monitor and protect against suspicious activities. Input from customers isn’t just collected. Your school regularly collects sensitive student information.

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Teenager With Epilepsy Looking Forward to Driving After Complex Craniotomy

Stanford Childrens

Isaac Diaz, age 18, was tired of epilepsy and cerebral palsy ruling his life. When his seizures started coming more frequently out of nowhere at age 15—first every six weeks, then four weeks, then weekly—he took the initiative to research a solution: an extremely complex surgery offered by neurosurgeons at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.