SHAPE America

MAY 31, 2022

In the fall of 1971 — less than a year before Title IX was passed — I was hired to head the Department of Physical Education at Kansas State University (K-State). I was charged with combining the men’s and women’s departments, supervising the planning and construction of a building, overseeing the revision of the curriculum for physical education (PE) majors and the required PE program, developing research and instructional laboratories, and instituting faculty research programs.

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Active Schools Us

MAY 24, 2022

By: Brian Dauenhauer, Ph.D., Associate Professor. University of Northern Colorado. By now, everyone knows the extensive benefits of physical activity. Schools, in particular, seem to be becoming more aware that they need to take a wholistic approach to education based on a Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model (WSCC; Lewallen et al., 2015) and physical activity is an essential component of any whole-of-school approach.

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Mr. Kirsch

MAY 3, 2022

The “Death Star” . State Standard: 1, 3, & 4. Equipment: Cageball (or Fitness Balls) and Playground Balls. . Grade: 3-5 (K-2 possibly). Purpose of Event: Throwing at moving targets & Teamwork. Time: 18-25 minutes. Organization: Divide the class into two teams and have them line up along their chosen sideline. Mark an area about 30 feet wide across the center of the playing area, with the cageball aka “Death Star” in the center.

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Drowning in the Shallow

MAY 1, 2022

What is unique about Physical Education? Not just the uniqueness of its content but also its medium for learning (Griggs and Randall, 2022)? These question should be front and centre of any conversation about the subject. The current focus on curriculum in England and the freedom afforded by government policy (and inspection mandate) means these … Continue reading Why movement?

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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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The PE Specialist

MAY 2, 2022

What’s up PE Fam! In this post I wanted to show you 5 of my favorite striking with implements station activities for PE Class. This lesson was part of my Striking with Implements Unit and I used it to give my Kindergarten – 2nd grade students a variety of different experiences trying out different sport […].

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Player Development Project

MAY 4, 2022

Ego. Why does it dominate coaching? Player Development Project Editor & academy coach, Dave Wright challenges the place of ego in coaching questioning where it comes from, the difficulty of removing it and accepting that as a coach, you may not have all the answers. “The kumara (sweet potato) does not need to say how sweet he is.” It’s game day.

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PE for Parents

MAY 10, 2022

The post Through the collective efforts of AFHK’s Family Connectors, our resources are reaching children in areas with the greatest need appeared first on Action for Healthy Kids.

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Aspire-Ed

MAY 31, 2022

The series 3 finale of The Primary PE Huddle is here and what a series it’s been! For this final episode, we’re taking a look back over the series to bring you the very best insights, advice and words of wisdom. Who’s joined us on the podcast this series? Series 3 has seen us welcome a whole host of experts from the field of primary education: Episode 1 : “We don’t move for functional reasons, we move for the joy of it” with Greg Dryer, co-founder and CEO of m

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A Positive Approach To Teen Health

MAY 31, 2022

Did you go outside today? The answer may be “yes, of course! I walked to my mailbox or I took the dog out” but did you really go outside ? Did you take a walk, ride your bike, or have a picnic for lunch? Did you read a book outside on the porch or spend some time planting flowers? As the weather gets warmer and nature gets greener, there’s never been a better time to enjoy the outdoors.

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Informed Practitioner in Sport

MAY 30, 2022

EDITOR’S NOTE: To celebrate the imminent release of the new title ‘ Sports Parenting: Negotiating the Challenges of the Youth Sports Journey to Help Kids Thrive ’ we are sharing this special post. The excerpt featured is from the chapter ‘Choosing the Right Programme’. Environment is everything when it comes to developing talent. Parents are naturally highly motivated to find the programme that provides most optimal conditions to allow their child’s talents to flourish.

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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.

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Player Development Project

MAY 30, 2022

Receiving, retention, and mastery of the ball are critical skills for young players to learn. An individual’s first touch and overall ball control will have a massive impact on both their competence and their confidence when playing the game, and it’s vital that we can effectively help kids develop these skills. Below, we examine why it’s so important to help players improve their ball control, and discuss some of the best ways to help kids build a connection with the ball.

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SHAPE America

MAY 19, 2022

After high school, I went to Penn State University to major in health and physical education. While the university had a varsity men’s soccer team, women’s soccer still only had a club team, which I participated on. We played a mostly varsity team schedule and followed the rules of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), which governed women’s collegiate athletics at that time.

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Fit and Fun Play

MAY 29, 2022

Childhood is a critical time for the development of locomotor skills. However, there are only so many squats and jumping jack reps kids can do before being bored out of their minds! If you want to not only get kids to move but also instill a genuine enjoyment of sports and set them up for a healthy lifestyle, you need to keep locomotor skills activities fun, creative, and engaging.

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RC Families

MAY 30, 2022

We all like to feel a sense of safety and security. Kids are no different. Children who feel secure are more likely to become independent and emotionally healthy as they grow up. When a child feels secure, they feel safe, not just physically, but emotionally as well. Children need to feel that it is okay. Read More.

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Montessori Physical Education

MAY 28, 2022

Last week’s blog focused on the benefits of mini-games over playing one large game. Some advantages to smaller mini-games include enhanced participation, more exercise, alternative opportunities for competition, and appropriate skill level matching. At the end of the blog post, I said I would post a series of lesson plans I used for lacrosse. As promised, here is the lesson plan for Native American Lacrosse and Stickball.

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The PhysEd Coach

MAY 26, 2022

Introduction In life, we all have decisions to make. Statistics say that we make about 35,000 decisions a day. Most of those 35,000 are very small choices that we make every day like, brushing our teeth, what we wear, getting on the freeway or taking surface streets, and what we eat. The decisions are more […]. The post Decision Making appeared first on The #Physed Coach.

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Every Kids Sports

MAY 26, 2022

The Eagles will help fund sports registration fees for 500 youth athletes across the Greater Philadelphia Area. BEND, OR (June 7, 2022) – The Philadelphia Eagles are pleased to announce they are teaming up with Every Kid Sports (EKS), a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, to provide increased access to youth sports. The activation partnership includes an initial community investment of $10,000 and a commitment to fund sports registration fees for 500 youth in the Greater Philadelphia Area

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AKA Sports

MAY 25, 2022

Updated/Edited: This Blog, originally posted in the Fall of 2019, “A Segment on the AKA Archery & Outdoors Division”, was in reference to the nature of the AKASPORT Archery program in terms of teaching competitive archery with references to hunting and ecological effects of controlling the deer population. Now, 2 and a 1/2 years since this the original post, AKASPORT Archery Summer Camps and After School Programs have grown exceptionally in popularity by the number of schools, classes and st

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

MAY 26, 2022

You could say Sabrina Plattner, MEd , has health and wellness in her DNA. Plattner, a senior health educator in the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health , grew up in Tucson, the daughter of Heather and David Alberts, MD. Her father joined the College of Medicine – Tucson in 1975 and, a year later, helped found the UArizona Cancer Center , where he developed one of the nation’s top cancer prevention and control programs.

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FACTS Management

MAY 25, 2022

Recording a refund enables schools to report refunds they have issued to families. While the institution still handles the actual refund of the money collected, this functionality allows them to record that refund so that it can be displayed in the FACTS system. It also ensures that reporting in FACTS is accurate to the number of payments actually received at the institution.

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Changing the Game Project

MAY 24, 2022

We have all seen the interview many times. The star athlete comes off the field or court, and the first question the interviewer asks is “You were looking really confident out there today, what was your secret?” We might even say the same thing to our own young athletes that we coach and mentor: “Wow, The post Confidence is a Feeling, Competence is a Behavior appeared first on Changing the Game Project.

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The Everlearner

MAY 25, 2022

Welcome to part two of this blog post series focused on (AO2) practical examples in PE exam answers. This week’s post includes 15 well developed practical examples starting with the letters D, E and F. This post is a follow-up to part 1, which was posted a few weeks ago, covering (AO2) examples starting with A, B and C. My aim with this post is to set a standard for how examples are written in PE exams but also to support teachers in providing the best explanations of theories and concepts throu

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Every Kids Sports

MAY 26, 2022

The Eagles will help fund sports registration fees for 500 youth athletes across the Greater Philadelphia Area. BEND, OR (June 7, 2022) – The Philadelphia Eagles are pleased to announce they are teaming up with Every Kid Sports (EKS), a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, to provide increased access to youth sports. The activation partnership includes an initial community investment of $10,000 and a commitment to fund sports registration fees for 500 youth in the Greater Philadelphia Area

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Aspire-Ed

MAY 24, 2022

A key date in the school sports calendar is coming up. Sports Day is a chance to celebrate physical activity, improve teamwork, develop social skills, create healthy competition, build resilience and inspire active lives. But with opportunity comes responsibility. It’s your job to plan your primary school’s Sports Day, but it’s also your job to stay on top of everything else whilst doing it.

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Skillastics

MAY 23, 2022

Some educators use the words motivation and engagement interchangeably, but they’re very different. Motivation, from the Latin word motivus–meaning moving–is the force or thing that prompts you to act where engagement is a feeling of belonging, commitment, or purpose towards an organization or idea. To break it down even further, engagement is whether an individual feels like a contributing member of a team–that comes from the environment you create in your after school and club programs–where m

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Fit and Fun Play

MAY 24, 2022

Looking for a simple, easy, and cost-effective solution to get kids moving and enhance their learning? Sensory pathways are the way to go (pun intended!). A growing body of research suggests that sensory play and physical activity that includes sensory play have positive effects on cognition, academic performance, brain development, and self-regulatory behavior.

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RC Families

MAY 23, 2022

Quality time versus quantity time–which is most impactful when it comes to your children? Quantity time for parents and kids refers to the amount of time a parent is physically present with their child. But even in the quantity of that time, the parent may be only physically present and not emotionally present. Quality time is. Read More.

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Teen Health 101

MAY 22, 2022

By: Hayder Alamar, Contributing Writer. Edited by: Fatou Kourouma, Editor; Elias Azizi, Editor in Chief. When people consider healthcare, they mainly think about doctors and nurses in the field. However, a more emerging front includes the impactful role of nurse practitioners (NPs), licensed practitioners who can work independently from physicians. You may have needed a refill on medication, or needed to urgently see your primary care physician, but your provider’s schedule was booked for weeks.

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Every Kids Sports

MAY 26, 2022

The Eagles will help fund sports registration fees for 500 youth athletes across the Greater Philadelphia Area. BEND, OR (June 7, 2022) – The Philadelphia Eagles are pleased to announce they are teaming up with Every Kid Sports (EKS), a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, to provide increased access to youth sports. The activation partnership includes an initial community investment of $10,000 and a commitment to fund sports registration fees for 500 youth in the Greater Philadelphia Area

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Aspire-Ed

MAY 23, 2022

94,000 fewer children and young people were active in the 2020-2021 academic year compared to 2018-2019. The number of children with a probable mental health disorder has increased from one in nine in 2017 to one in six in 2021. And so, if there was ever a time to make sure you’re making the most of your PE and sport premium, it’s now. You’ve got until the end of this academic year to spend your premium in full, which includes any unspent funds rolled over as a result of the pa

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Montessori Physical Education

MAY 22, 2022

When I create my integrated classroom PE games, I purposely design them so there is little to no down time for any student. I want as many students participating as much as possible. When our students are studying a culture, we tend to play a popular (indigenous) sport from them. Sometimes the rules of the sport are not conducive for having a lot of people play at once.

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Keeping Kids in Motion

MAY 21, 2022

Wacka-Wacka-Wacka is one of my absolute favorite team building challenges for students of all ages. It’s the perfect combination of cooperation, communication, patience, and fitness. Set up: Create groups of 4 students Place stacks of six hula hoops around the perimeter of the gym.

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A Positive Approach To Teen Health

MAY 20, 2022

May marks the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Month — a month that has been observed in the United States since 1949. Since then, the number of adolescents reporting poor mental health has steadily increased. Many of these young people are not just “feeling down” but rather are struggling with decision-making, experiencing problems at school or in the home, or grappling with their overall mental and physical health.

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Teen Health 101

MAY 22, 2022

By: Urmika Balaji, Contributing Writer. Edited by: Fauzia Haque, Editor; Elias Azizi, Editor in Chief. Introduction: Emergency Medical (ER) Physicians are physicians involved in assessing a patient’s condition and making immediate decisions to care for a patient in order to prevent death or worsening of the condition ( , AMA ). Anyone who is in critical condition could come into the emergency room, so these physicians need to be prepared to deal with patients of all ages, all illnesses, and all

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Player Development Project

MAY 18, 2022

Paul McGuinness was immersed in the world of Manchester United as a player and coach for 28 years. Paul learnt his craft from his father Wilf, a Manchester United Manager and was mentored by the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Matt Busby, Tony Whelan and more. PDP Editor Dave Wright sits down with Paul to discuss his personal journey, sharing incredible stories of the culture and family values of the club and how he and his colleagues instilled them in the academy.

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