Mr. Kirsch

MAY 18, 2025

And for those of us teaching in Title I schools, the stakes and rewards often feel even greater. In Title I schools, Field Day often represents more than just games on a field. As PE teachers, we design engaging stations, coordinate volunteers, adapt for all abilities, and often pull it off with limited resources.

PE Teacher

SHAPE America

JULY 31, 2025

As a middle school physical education teacher, my goal is for all students to have a place where they feel valued, supported and motivated to participate. It is so important to prioritize relationship-building from the very start of the school year. Neace is the 2025 SHAPE America Southern District Middle School Teacher of the Year.

PE

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).

PE

Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

Without the traditional net, rallies last much longer, giving students more opportunities to practice their fundamentals and coordination in a fun and supportive environment. Angled Rebounder Drills: Adjust the boards angle to act as a rebounder for catching and throwing drills, perfect for developing hand-eye coordination and reaction time.

Fitness

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Parents and coaches, bombarded with stories of children being offered collegiate scholarships in middle school or making national-level teams at age ten, feel an impetus to accelerate their own childrens development. This underscores the futility of making high-stakes decisions about a childs athletic future in elementary school.

Sports

Magnus Health

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In today’s digital age, technology is transforming the way healthcare is delivered — including in school settings. For K-12 school nurses, managing the health of students with chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and epilepsy can be challenging. Many schools are realizing the benefits of EHR software for this very purpose.

Health

Rennie Center

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our latest report delves into the current landscape of state-funded STEM-focused internships and work-based learning opportunities available to high school students in Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, a range of programs aim to bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world application.

Coordination

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Additionally, I have worked with the **NYC DOE Office of Wellness**, delivering hands-on training in a **high school hallway**, showing how bowling can be taught in non-traditional spaces with limited resources. These experiences have reinforced how adaptable, inclusive, and engaging bowling can be in any PE program.

PE

Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

What we like the most about Packard is its coordination across the board,” Bo says. The Children’s Heart Center thrives on the concept of regionalization of pediatric health care, a proven method of delivering the best coordinated and comprehensive care possible to children with complex medical needs. He’s a regular 7-year-old.”

Conditioning

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. 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.

Education

Relentless School Nurse

JUNE 18, 2025

Retrieved from Tattooed Buddha Closing a Difficult Year As another school year comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on everything we carried personally and collectively. School nurses across the country have faced many of the same challenges, and we’ve leaned on each other in ways that have kept us going.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

MAY 19, 2025

I joined this conversation in my role as The Relentless School Nurse, bringing with me over 40 years of nursing experience, including 24 years as a school nurse in an under-resourced urban district in New Jersey. For many children, the school nurse is the only health provider they see. Department of Education.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 8, 2025

This policy shift, which eliminates frameworks for addressing social determinants of health, has far-reaching implications for school nurses and our school communities. With many schools lacking full-time nurses and maintaining high nurse-to-student ratios, the loss of HRSN infrastructure forces nurses to compensate for systemic gaps.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

JANUARY 22, 2025

This unwelcome, but expected closure, ended the office’s brief but impactful tenure as a central hub for coordinating gun violence prevention efforts across the federal government.

Government

Gopher Sport

MARCH 3, 2025

Be mindful of any students with sensitivity to strobe lights or moving lights, check with your school nurse to see if any students would not be able to participate and find and alternative activity if necessary. I had to leave the pins and lights set up for several days which had to be coordinated with our Extended Day program.

PE

Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 21, 2025

For school nurses and educators, this moment is more than political theater; it is a stark reminder of what is at stake for public education and student health. Public education is more than just a system of schools; it is the embodiment of our civic values and ideals. Click to view slideshow.

Education

Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy’s groundbreaking advisory , which highlights the urgent need for a coordinated public health response to this crisis. Without this central office, the federal government will lose a vital tool for addressing gun violence in a coordinated and comprehensive way.

Movement

Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This coordinated effort presents an unprecedented threat to the future of federal education policy and funding in our country. Let’s make our voices heard and fight for the continuation of vital federal support for education and school health services. Start here first! Resistbot uses the number 50409 for text communications.

Education

Gopher Sport

MARCH 3, 2025

Motor Skill Development: The act of bowling requires coordinated movements, improving hand-eye coordination, balance, and throwing mechanics. Lifetime Activity: Bowling is a sport that can be enjoyed at any age, encouraging students to maintain an active lifestyle beyond school.

Physical Education

PLT4M

MAY 9, 2025

Fun Tag Games For Elementary PE Tag is a classic playground favorite, and many students have likely played some version of it outside of school. Hoop Kick Tag – Emphasis on utilizing eye-foot coordination kicking a hula hoop. These skills are great for young learners because theyre easy to understand and practice in a tag format.

Elementary

Relentless School Nurse

JULY 31, 2025

This Is a Health Emergency—Not Just a Policy Debate As school nurses, we see what happens when a child can’t catch their breath—and we’re not speaking in metaphors. School nurses will continue to care for children inside our buildings—but we also have a responsibility to advocate outside of them.

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PLT4M

MARCH 18, 2025

Soccer games for elementary PE are more than just fun activitiesthey help students develop essential motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness. Fun Soccer Games For Elementary PE Soccer is one of the most popular sports around the world, and many students may have already experienced playing outside of school.

Elementary

Relentless School Nurse

APRIL 15, 2025

School Nurses: The Relentless Lifelines in Our Schools School nurses are the lifelines for students and families navigating the complexities of acute and chronic illness while pursuing an education. Whether or not its your official title, remember: we are all the Chief Wellness Officers in our schools.

Schooling

Athletic Director U

MAY 24, 2025

If an athlete wants to go out to book appearances and market for a brand, I am all for that, but I believe it should be independent of the school. An in-house effort has two substantial benefits: better coordination of fundraising efforts and seamless donor benefits (e.g., Easy money now, but (what) does it teach (about) work ethic?

Motivation

Relentless School Nurse

APRIL 18, 2025

The mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where two people were killed and at least five others injured, is another painful reminder of the crisis we live with every day as school health professionals. What happened on a college campus has happened over and over again in K12 schools.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

MAY 3, 2025

has yet to launch a coordinated response, even as senators and health experts call for urgent action. This spike isnt just a statistical blip, its a warning sign of a broader public health failure fueled by vaccine misinformation and declining immunization rates. Kennedy Jr.

Government

Montessori Physical Education

MARCH 9, 2025

While it remains popular in rural areas and among children, a coordinated effort was made to standardize the game and invite international competition in the Indian Lagori Premier League. Besides being played for fun in villages and schools, it is often seen during festivals and community gatherings, too.

Coordination

SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As a physical education teacher, I have been doing school fundraisers for 23 years. In spring 2019, my school, Odessa Upper Elementary, was one of the pilot schools for SHAPE America’s health. because of the lessons (and there are a lot of them) and because I receive a lot more giveback to my school.

PE

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Every November, schools throughout Kentucky celebrate Kindness Across the Commonwealth , a week-long event started by KYSHAPE in 2020 to spread kindness throughout our state while promoting lessons and activities from SHAPE America’s health. FUNdraiser — and it has transformed my school community for the better. ® FUNdraiser.

Schooling

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. An example of this is to run, then add kicking a ball, or skip and then lunge.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

President-Elect Candidates Cara Grant Cara Grant (she/her) is the preK-12 supervisor for adapted physical education, health, and physical education in Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland), the 14th largest school district in the nation. She has an Ed.D. He has a Ph.D. in kinesiology (sport pedagogy) and an M.S.

Physical Education

Relentless School Nurse

JANUARY 3, 2024

Imagine finding out that your school district was gifted millions of dollars to improve access to healthcare for your students and staff! The recipient of the joint gift is the School-Based Health Alliance , the national voice for school-based healthcare.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

JULY 30, 2022

. The impact of COVID on school nursing is not yet fully realized, but what we do know is there are many open positions. The fall of 2022 looks rather bleak for some school districts. I have been on the faculty of Rutgers University – Camden School of Nursing for more than a decade. That was one sign of trouble ahead.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

AUGUST 6, 2022

I came across this article, “North Carolina school district planning to put AR-15 in every school in the event of another school shooting,” and my heart started racing. This is not school safety. It is dangerous and reactive which will turn schools into battlefields. . Hardening schools does not work.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

MAY 9, 2023

There are several entities devoted to tracking mass shootings, school shootings, students impacted by gun violence at school and daily gun violence occurrences. K-12 School Shooting Database – “W idely inclusive, open-source school shooting data Documents when a gun is fired, brandished, or bullet hits school property.”

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

AUGUST 18, 2022

In the fourteenth episode of our webinar series, Robin Cogan covers the role school nurses have as healthcare providers charged with the responsibility of protecting students and faculty while fostering safe school environments and the most effective approaches and strategies to create safe and supportive school environments through comprehensive, (..)

Health

Relentless School Nurse

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this special two-part series, School Nurse Trends: Tales from the Frontlines , I was invited to contribute my perspective on the evolving role of school nurses and our essential contributions to student health and well-being. Together, we can make a lasting impact in our schools and communities.

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