Tue.Nov 15, 2022

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The Relentless School Nurse: Peers Supporting Each Other

Relentless School Nurse

. A group of school nurses has quietly gathered every Sunday evening from 7 – 8 pm for more than two years in support of each other. The numbers fluctuate but usually hover around 15. For an hour most Sunday nights, we come together to provide peer support. The conversations focused on the stressors related to COVID and the impact on our health and well-being as we scrambled to keep up with the ever-changing public health emergency.

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Backup Players – Always Be Ready to Play

Physical Education Update

Backup Players – Always Be Ready to Play! I’m currently reading a book by my favorite author, John Grisham, called “Playing for Pizza. It’s the story of an NFL quarterback – a 3rd-stringer who, through a series of injuries to his team’s top-two quarterbacks, ends up leading his team in the final 12 minutes of a championship game…with disastrous results.

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Interplay Between Exercise and Gut Health: How to Improve Exercise with a Happy Gut

The Sporting

How to use exercise to build a happy, healthy gut We are constantly told that to improve our endurance we need to: lift more weight, work out more or have a healthy diet. However, what if it goes beyond all of this. What if, to improve our endurance, we also need a happy gut? Gut microbiota and exercise are interconnected, according to recent studies.

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Securing your first PE teacher job

PE Scholar

Luke Jones shares his experience of a relentless pursuit to secure his first pe teacher job and how he got his first teaching post.

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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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Premature Baby Turns 2 After Traumatic Start

Stanford Childrens

Juliana Vidigal was just shy of 26 weeks pregnant when she started bleeding and feeling abdominal pain. She immediately called her neighbor, who gave her a ride to a nearby hospital in San Francisco. The news wasn’t good. “The doctor said, ‘Your risk for premature labor is 100%. You have to go to Stanford Medicine Children’s Health ,’” Juliana says.

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Micronutrients to Support the Autoimmune Response

Designs for Health

Autoimmune conditions are believed to influence up to 1 in 20 adults in the U.S. Some evidence indicates that the incidence of autoimmune conditions may be increasing. Recent research suggests that some micronutrients may support health in the presence of certain autoimmune conditions. . Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a progressive, systemic autoimmune disease characterized by joint involvement and destruction of bone and cartilage.