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5 Simple Ways Principals Can Prioritize Health and Wellness This School Year

SHAPE America

As a principal, I certainly do as well. Whether it be addressing the learning loss many students experienced from these past few years, the pressures of high stakes testing, or the host of new policies and regulations that have surfaced, new initiatives are competing for limited instructional time. Don’t do it!

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10 SEL Activities For High School

PLT4M

High school is an essential time for students to develop their social and emotional learning (SEL) skills. From group activities to individual reflection, a variety of SEL activities can be used in the high school classroom. This article will explore 10 SEL activities for high school students.

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Dance Without Limits: A Life Changing Adapted PE Dance Program

Gopher PE

Not only can you sing it, but when you hear it, it brings you back to a place in time: a school dance, a wedding, first heartbreak or a backyard BBQ. We repeated days of the week in song, sang the alphabet, and memorized every lyric to every song from High School Musical. Ten years ago, I decided that we would dance!

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Lesson Plans On Emotions For Middle and High School Students

PLT4M

Emotions play a critical role in the social and intellectual development of middle and high school students. Educators have the opportunity to guide students through this process with well-structured lesson plans on emotions. But in many places, formal social-emotional learning starts to decrease in middle and high school.

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ISBE PE Standards & Curriculum Alignment

PLT4M

STATE GOAL 24: Promote and enhance health and well-being through the use of effective communication and decision-making skills.​​ Picture from Prairie Ridge High School where students workout during physical education class. STATE GOAL 23: Understand human body systems and factors that influence growth and development.

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Lifetime Fitness Activities

PLT4M

Lifetime fitness activities include: Walking/Jogging/Running Strength Training Yoga Pilates Dance Swimming Lifetime Sports (Tennis, Pickleball, Tennis, Golf, etc.) Check out any of the below links to explore free lesson plans and materials for different types of activities ranging from strength training and free weights to yoga and dance.

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Curriculum Mapping For Physical Education

PLT4M

Not only is physical wellness on the decline, we are also seeing an increase in mental illness a, declining academic performance, and troublesome classroom behavior issues. When using this curriculum mapping framework to create a vertically integrated PE Curriculum, that means starting with high school students and your upper grade levels.