Conditioning Elementary School Physical Activity 
PE for Parents
JUNE 26, 2025
EnergizEd Our EnergizEd program is a comprehensive approach to physical activity and active play. Healthy Meals Incentives Research and Evaluation Our Impact Who We Are We are a national nonprofit that brings together dedicated volunteers and partners to make schools healthier places where kids thrive. Bold New Look.
Gopher Sport
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
By: Gopher Community Physical Education teacher Heather Burd is not just an educator; she’s an example of resilience, compassion, and empowerment. Born with right hemiplegia, a partial paralysis on her right side—a condition as rare as she is unique—Heather has faced physical challenges from day one.
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Better Coaching
DECEMBER 24, 2024
As children grow older, this conditional approval can encourage a cycle of anxiety and fear of failure. This underscores the futility of making high-stakes decisions about a childs athletic future in elementary school. Physical activity and fundamental movement skills are essential throughout childhood.
SHAPE America
MARCH 14, 2023
We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. Why Fishing? They explore, make adjustments, and learn from experience and the environment.
Whole Child Sports
MARCH 26, 2020
The Aspen Institute is searching over the next year for additional exemplary and innovative high school teams from many sports. The national search seeks teams that embrace best practices and innovate new ways to encourage physical activity, minimize injury risk and support athletes’ emotional, social and mental well-being.
Stanford Childrens
MARCH 25, 2024
K-12 hospital school gives kids a chance for normalcy and connections to other kids during long recoveries At most schools, the two students would never have met. One boy was a teenager in high school, the other a child in early elementary school. Normal for them is to go to school.
Spark PE
JANUARY 14, 2022
One of the many aspects of life affected was physical activity. Implementation of these restrictions raised questions about what happened to physical activity during the pandemic, and investigators got busy trying to answer those questions and the related question of what happened to sedentary behavior (sitting).
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