Tue.Jan 16, 2024

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The Relentless School Nurse: Introducing “Operation Happy Nurse”!

Relentless School Nurse

The “Operation Happy Nurse” app, developed by neonatal ICU nurse Shannon McPeek, is a groundbreaking mobile application designed to provide mental health support and essential resources tailored specifically for nurses. The app offers a range of features specifically designed to address the unique needs of healthcare professionals, including guided breathing exercises, meditation and mindfulness sessions, and practical stress management techniques.

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Teenager Back on Lacrosse Field After Brain Surgery for AVM

Stanford Childrens

Arteriovenous malformation is a tangling of blood vessels in the brain that forms before birth. The first thing Lauren Adair, age 15, packed for a family trip last spring break to Palm Springs, CA, was her lacrosse stick. Lacrosse is her favorite sport, and Lauren wanted to practice as much as possible to get ready for the high school team the following year.

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Free resources for Physical Education (PE) teachers

PE Scholar

The following free-to-access resources produced by National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of sport are potentially of great use to physical education

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Rafa Nadal Sets New Target to Grow Tennis and Sport in Saudi Arabia

The Sporting

Saudi Tennis Federation Announces New Ambassador Role for Global Tennis Icon Riyadh, 15th January 2024: Rafa Nadal, one of the greatest sporting figures and tennis players of all-time has become a new ambassador of the Saudi Tennis Federation (STF). This is part of a long-term commitment to help grow the sport and inspire a new generation of athletes in Saudi Arabia.

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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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Inattentional blindness and what it means for sport coaching practice

Learning Through Sport

The sport performance environment is characterised as complex and rich due to the nature, volume, and occurance of information available to a player. However, the player's perceptual and cogntive resources are limited, so all the available information is unable to be 'perecived and considered' by the player. Players can miss pertinent information (cues to some, affordances to others) due to selective looking (Neisser, 1979: see here ), mis-directed attention or non-awarness.

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French Racing: Former Jump Jockey Jacob Pritchard Webb Shares His Insights

The Sporting

Is French Horse Racing the Future? We Chat to Ex-Jockey Jacob Pritchard Webb Why is French racing so popular? Former professional jump jockey Jacob Webb discusses his big move to France, taking a look at French racecourses, jockeys, prize money and more. I never knew that a two-month working holiday to France in 2018 would end up in a move there a year later to embark on a career as a professional jump jockey.

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6 Common Problems the Right SIS Can Solve

FACTS Management

When you find an ink pen, pencil, dry-erase marker, or [insert your most-used office supply] that works just right , it feels like uncovering the solution to all your problems. But perfect pens and pencils are hard to come by. Student information systems (SISs) can be like that too. When you’re stuck with a provider that just doesn’t get it, your administrators, teachers, and families experience a multitude of issues.

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Pushup Progression Options

PLT4M

Bodyweight exercises like the push up are fantastic additions to any strength training program or fitness journey. And like any movement or exercise, the push up can be scaled, modified, and progressed to empower individuals of all experiences and abilities. We unpack different options and opportunities within a pushup progression. Check out the points of performance to a push up and explore 6 different types of push-ups that can add variation and progression to this body weight exercise. >&