Stanford Childrens

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Stanford Medicine Childrens Health provides the latest expert, research-driven care to children with bowel disease Abigail (Abby) is a high-energy 8-year-old from Visalia, California, who loves to bake sweets, create art, dance around the living room, and do gymnastics in the yard. Yet, she wasnt always this carefree.

Achievement

Gopher Sport

APRIL 24, 2025

Hosting a Unified Field Day for High School Students Have you heard of Unified Field Day? Every March, our school invites other local schools to participate in our Unified Field Day. We invite the schools to spend the day with us and together we share a pizza lunch for all attendees.

High School

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JULY 31, 2025

Hard to believe that a short 6 or 8 weeks ago, we were counting down to the END of the school year, and now here we are getting ready for another round of “meet the teacher” night! But I digress, it’s time to get ourselves ready for those early morning duties, after school meetings, sports practices and lesson planning! Simple right?

Physical Education

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Challenges Of Finding The Right PE Lesson Plan Template PE teachers wear many hats, striving to expose students to a wide variety of physical activities throughout the school year. Because of that, we can match the lesson plans within PLT4M to our different courses.” ” PLT4M comes fully loaded with over 50 different units.

PE

Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I send him off to school and let him run and play without worrying,” Lorena says. Recently, he danced the night away at a family wedding. A year passed, with Sammy’s seizures fully under control. “He He has had only one small seizure in a whole year. Now, we don’t even think about his epilepsy. He’s happy and active.

Conditioning

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

The reality is that physical education has limited time in a school curricula. This question is deeply connected to the question , What is important to learn in physical education in the time available (and to what standard or level of competence) to enable students to continue to pursue being physically active beyond the school gates?

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Funny enough, I would take an assistant teaching job at a Montessori school in Chicago while I was "trying to find myself" and realized that teaching was, in fact, my calling. It became glaringly apparent to me that I had underrepresented crucial activities like dance, gymnastics, and jump rope work.

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

MARCH 25, 2025

This is our field day for the K-2 students and is held (hopefully) on a sunny day during the last week of school. I work with the Parent -Teacher Organization (PTO) to create a fun day for roughly 200 students in a rural school. They also organize four of the stations; usually a craft station, snacks, DJ/Dance party, and bubbles!

Agility

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

From kindergarten to high school, students grow physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially. How do we prepare high school students for lifelong fitness? In PE, schools often patch together different programs for elementary, middle, and high school—if they have curriculum resources at all.

Motor Skills

Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 27, 2025

Our hope is that all educators within a school building are working together to help students develop knowledge and skills that will lead to the development of healthy habits. Studies have shown that healthy students get better grades, attend school more, and often behave better in class.

Physical Education

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. LED lights were used to light up the lanes and to help see the pins non-toxic glow bracelets were secured onto each pin.

PE

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 5, 2025

This can only occur by meaking realistic descisions about what can be taught and learnt in the time available to physical education in the school curricula. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance , August, 29-32. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance , 63 (1), 27-56. Instructional time. Mosston, M.

Physical Education

Open Phys Ed

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Identifies the rules and etiquette for physical activities/games and dance activities. SIGN UP HERE OPEN Priority Outcomes: Etiquette: Recognizes the role of rules and etiquette in teacher-designed physical activities. Manipulative Skills: Demonstrates control while combining locomotor and manipulative skills in self-space and general space.

Academics

Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Lets be honest most after-school and expanded learning programs arent staffed with certified fitness trainers or PE teachers. Why Physical Activity is Essential in After-School Programs Before we dive into the how, lets start with the why. After-school programs are uniquely positioned to encourage active play.

Physical Activity

Lampe

JUNE 4, 2025

In our school we share a holistic view of Physical Education, where our students receive equal access to all areas of the PE curriculum including: aquatics, athletics, dance, games, gymnastics, and outdoor and adventure.

Dance

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

The Importance of PE Sub Plans Unexpected events happen throughout the school year, whether it’s illness, professional development, or emergencies. Elementary PE Sub Plans In many elementary school physical education lessons, some level of equipment or setup is required.

PE

Montessori Physical Education

MAY 4, 2025

The Māori are renowned for their warrior culture, exemplified by the powerful haka—a ceremonial dance performed to convey challenge, unity, or celebration. Now, it is common to see the game being played in school for PE or during various festivals. This game has significant connections to Māori mythology.

Dance

Physical Education Update

JULY 25, 2022

As the new school year begins, I thought we’d experiment with a new look for the PE Update blog. OK, maybe not a “craze,” but this workout combines walking and dancing and can be done by people of all ages and fitness levels. Watch the later segments and you’ll see how group dance walking looks.

Dance

SHAPE America

JULY 27, 2023

And, despite clear research demonstrating the positive impacts of health and wellness on academic achievement , schools may be tempted to put critically important physical activity programs on the back burner. Several years ago, our school experienced an increase in discipline. Examples include jump rope, dance, limbo, and parachute.

Wellness

Elementary P.E. Games

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s hard to believe summer is over and school is back in session! If you’re looking for fun back to school games for kids, then I highly recommend my newest brain break activity – Freeze Dance – Back To School Edition! It can also make for a great first day of school icebreaker activity.

Dance

Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 17, 2024

New Jersey State School Nurses Association (NJSSNA) is celebrating the conclusion of our 2024 Spring Conference. Our second in-person since COVID as we continue to rebuild our strength, endurance, and school nurse community. The theme of NJSSNA2024 was “School Nurses Make the Impossible, Possible.”

Schooling

SHAPE America

AUGUST 4, 2022

At some point, most physical education teachers have had to give up the gym for a concert, rehearsal, assembly, construction, or other school/community activity. I once taught physical education classes outside — in Minnesota — for a full school year (and a month into the next year) when our gymnasium was being renovated.

Gyms

Relentless School Nurse

APRIL 7, 2024

Today’s guest post is from our friend Holly Giovi , also known as Nurse Holly, one of the moderators of the private School Nursing Facebook group! Holly invites readers into a whimsical world where the ordinary routines of a school nurse’s day intersect with the extraordinary magic of a solar eclipse.

Private Schools

SHAPE America

JUNE 4, 2024

Four years of college had gone by faster than I could blink my eyes and then I was back in high school — now responsible for the education of students who were only four to seven years younger than me. In a school full of amazing people, I felt isolated. When I began my teaching career in 2007, I was 22 years old.

Physical Education

Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Embracing the Duality of School Nursing: Navigating Love and Challenges In the realm of school nursing, a profession that demands unwavering dedication, boundless compassion, and unyielding resilience, a delicate balance exists between the profound love for the job and the myriad challenges that accompany it.

Schooling

Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Steph Donovan is a dance specialist and has been teaching dance for as long as she can remember. But she’s also a primary school teacher and understands the time pressures that come with planning, researching and resourcing an engaging creative curriculum for your pupils. Get your ticket here. Key details.

Dance

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? Many have never fished before at all.

Recreation

SHAPE America

AUGUST 11, 2022

These notes became the foundation for a two-part series we would later write for the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), “Transitioning From Students of Teaching to Teachers of Students.”. Running the Race. It’s so much easier to coast, but our stakeholders deserve better. That’s the goal!

Physical Education

Open Phys Ed

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Etiquette: (Grades 9-12) Exhibits proper etiquette, respect for others, and teamwork while engaging in physical activity and/or social dance. The post Cooperative Invasion (High School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum.

High School

Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 1, 2024

Each activity in this collection focuses on one middle school and one high school standard and one strand of outcomes. Triangle Dance Tutorial: Triangle Dance Basic Trainer Video: Triangle Dance 2.0 Trainer Video: Triangle Dance for Grades K-5? Trainer Video: Triangle Dance for Grades K-5?

Dance

Open Phys Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Manipulative Skills: (Grade 6-8) Refines manipulative skills to improve performance in dance, fitness, and sport activities. Locomotor Skills: (Grade 6) Safely and purposefully uses mature locomotor skills in rhythms and patterns in dance, fitness, and sport environments.

Middle School

Slow Chat PE

APRIL 2, 2023

Their awareness of self and ability to tap into the anger and pain being caused in schools right now hit hard. Reggie had us dancing salsa, doing the gritty, and making up line dances. Every person danced! We danced through a tornado!! Once the performance was over the four young women sat for a Q and A.

Education

The PE Specialist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Dancing is a fun and easy way for students to get their body moving and active for a lifetime. The Cupid Shuffle is a classic dance we love to teach our students every year. Whether they attend a birthday party, wedding reception, or school dance, more than likely the DJ will end […]. What’s Up Everyone!

Dance

Human Kinetics

MAY 23, 2023

By Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL The PE Central Online School is under new ownership. Human Kinetics (HK), the premier publisher of K-12 and higher education resources for physical education (PE), health education, adapted physical activity, and dance, acquired the online school effective March 31.

Online Schooling

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Filling up an entire semester of middle school physical education units can be challenging. But there are plenty of fun and engaging middle school physical education units to choose from. The Need For Variety With Middle School Physical Units Middle school physical education is unique! Let’s explore.

Middle School

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Identifies the rules and etiquette for physical activities/games and dance activities. Locomotor Skills: Combines locomotor skills with movement concepts in dance, fitness, and sport environments. Movement Concepts: Creates open space to create an advantage or with a specific purpose in dance, fitness, and sports activities.

Middle School

Physical Education Update

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While innovative equipment can make classes more fun – and I wouldn’t advise your students to try these moves – here’s an amazing example of an incredible gymnastics-dance-tumbling-agility routine performed using nothing but a partner and some benches. To subscribe to the free Fun Stuff for PE Newsletter, Click Here!

Physical Education