Mon.Sep 26, 2022

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Workshop: Primary Dance in PE

Aspire-Ed

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. Add in a lack of confidence or experience in a subject, and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.

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Botanicals to Support the Nrf2 Pathway and Antioxidative Status

Designs for Health

Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor (Nrf2) is a transcription factor associated with more than 200 genes. Nrf2 helps to modulate antioxidative metabolism , support a healthy inflammatory response, and preserve homeostasis in the presence of cellular stress. Nrf2 activation occurs through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase (Akt) signaling pathway.

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Practical workshop: How to maximise engagement on the playground

Aspire-Ed

What’s your school’s view of break time? If your first thought is “hard work”, you’re not alone. Break time is seen as needing to be short and tightly managed by many schools as a result of poor behaviour and the pressure to cover an ever-expanding curriculum and raise attainment. The purpose of break time can be unclear; there’s a lack of clarity around how it can support school aims and children’s development.

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The 5 Best Quarterback-Tight End Combos

The Sporting

The top quarterback-tight end combos in NFL history In the last 30-40 years of the NFL , it is no secret that while the tight end has traditionally been more of a blocking position, it has emerged as a more prominent position on the passing front. A lot of times the reasons why tight ends are dominant on the receiving front is because they are usually fast enough to play receiver, but strong enough to also play on the line in either running situations or formations when there aren’t as many rece

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Reimagine the Role of PE to Reconnect With Your Students

Speaker: Jeremy Kellem, M.Ed. - Educational Strategist, Former Athlete, and CEO/Founder of W.I.N. (We Impact Now, LLC)

For many students, physical education is critical to becoming active and developing healthy routines. But how is this possible anymore with the repercussions of the pandemic? Years of COVID-19, social distancing, and virtual learning have all had a profound effect on students, which means educators need to adjust their classes accordingly. The good news is that P.E. can still play a vital role in helping students intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially.

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Why and How Your Child Should be Doing Chores

RC Families

Chores are just a reality of life. They make the home function smoothly, and some are pretty basic life skills that teach kids how to work. If you are tempted to do too much for your kids, you are not properly preparing them for adulthood. But kids who are taught to do chores consistently will. Read More.

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The Full-Stack Physical Educator

The Physical Educator

Many of you know me from my teaching, resources, speaking, and social media presence. I’ve been practicing and sharing in public since 2010 and a lot of my work may be very familiar to you. What you probably don’t know me for is the instructional coaching that I do as a P.E. pedagogy coach. Coaching teachers is where I turned my focus after stepping away from teaching in 2020.

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Meeting members where they are at Fusion Training

My Zone

Keeping your clients motivated and engaged, wherever they are on their fitness journey, is the secret to helping them achieve their results. And results means happy customers, which means better retention.

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Joe DeMaestri: From Rags to Riches

The Sporting

Read an interview with the great Joe DeMaestri After a fourth-place finish in his rookie year with the Chicago White Sox (1951), shortstop Joe DeMaestri dwelt deep in the second division for seven years with the St. Louis Browns and Philadelphia/Kansas City A’s. He was ready to quit the game when he was traded to the Yankees and wound up in the 1960 and ‘61 World Series.

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MPs and Peers in Westminster to take on phyiscal activity challenge

My Zone

Promoting the importance of physical activity across the nation, ukactive and Myzone have teamed up to launch the Parliamentary Physical Activity Challenge for MPs, Peers, and their teams in Westminster.

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Co-Constructing Success Criteria in Physical Education

The Physical Educator

Subscribe To The #PhysEd Show. These are the show notes for my latest episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast. Take a listen to the episode by using the player below or subscribe to the show in your favourite podcast app! Using success criteria in your teaching is a high-leverage practice that has a significant effect on student learning. By building success criteria in partnership with your students, you can help increase student ownership, motivation, and engagement.

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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker

Physical education is an important part of the development of the whole person: physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively. By providing education in movement competency, education on using movement to develop the ability to be self-regulated and motivated, and education through movement to develop ‘habits of mind’ for positive and constructive engagement with others, PE provides a basis for personal and community health and wellbeing.