December, 2022

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Tips to Help Teens Stay Nicotine-Free During the Holidays and All Year Long

SHAPE America

Holidays can be fun, but stressful. You can help make sure teens get through the season and all year long in a healthy way. Holidays Are a Time of Cheer (and Sometimes Stress). For many Americans, the holiday season is a time of celebration, rest, and good food.

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11 Exciting Activities to Develop Floor Hockey Skills (Video)

Gopher PE

Hockey safety & stick control key points: Blade always below knees. Non-dominate hand on top of the stick. Dominant hand at the bottom of sticker for passing/shooting (hand higher up for dribbling/stick control). Fingers wrapped around the stick. Bent knees. Straight back.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Become a School Nurse? Never Say Never!

Relentless School Nurse

Sheila Taney wrote today’s guest blog post to share her journey to school nursing after a thirty-year nursing career. Why did she choose school nursing, after it had never been on her radar… or so she thought?

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The Novel Idea of Reading to Infants: How an Annual Reading Program Helps NICU Babies and Caregivers

Stanford Childrens

At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford , neonatologists with the Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services work closely with parents, the hospital’s obstetric team, and specialized pediatric services to provide high-quality care for newborns with critical, surgical, or special medical needs.

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SNOWMAN DOWN! / ELF SWITCH – 2 holiday games with similar setup

Keeping Kids in Motion

For this week’s GAME OF THE WEEK I’ve included two holiday games that have a very similar setup. Each year I play them back to back because they allow for a seamless transition. SNOWMAN DOWN! My students love this game! I’ve played this with.

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The End of the Road - Transitioning Out of Sport

AASP

<p><em>“Don’t retire from something, retire to something.” ” - </em>David Parkin (Sport Australia Hall of Fame).</p> </p> <p>There is an inevitable outcome that accompanies every athlete’s career.

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How to Set Family Boundaries During The Holidays

RC Families

Do you have family boundaries? Especially when it comes to the holidays? The Holidays are a time for family gatherings. But what if those get-togethers are not anticipated with joy? Do you dread them? Is your goal to just get through them without too much drama?

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The Relentless School Nurse: 2023 Here We Go…Please Be Better Than The Last Three!

Relentless School Nurse

. One of the benefits of having more than 900 blog posts is that I can look back at where we were at any given time in years past. Here is my blog post from exactly one year ago 12/31/2021: The Relentless School Nurse: Oh, 2022, I Really Wanted to Welcome You!

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Frustrating Day in Class? Give Welsh Shin Kicking a Try

Physical Education Update

Summer vacation is just beginning for teachers here in North America. As usual, I’ll post only a couple of blogs over the summer – because most of you won’t read them anyway! So, we’ll publish once at the end of July and then again at the end of August.

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Light The Menorah – Another Holiday Tag Game!

Keeping Kids in Motion

LIGHT THE MENORAH My students love this game. Before we play, we meet in a circle to talk about Hanukkah. Many times I’ll let my students who celebrate Hanukkah lead the discussion. We’ll talk about the Menorah, the shamash or helper candle, and the.

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Three key benefits to heart rate training

My Zone

Heart rate training is a valuable tool for both athletes and those looking to improve their health. It helps you optimise your workouts and recovery, by converting heart rate metrics into easy-to-understand heart rate zones that are different for everyone. Myzone insight

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How Labeling Young Athletes ‘Talented’ Limits Athletic Achievement (And Why We Should Ignore It)

Changing the Game Project

The word “talent” gets thrown around quite often in youth sports circles, but what exactly does it mean? And do we really know what talent looks like, what its components.

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10 Tips for Teaching Time Management to Your Kids

RC Families

Teaching your kids time management will not only take stress off of you, it will give them a skill to use later in life that will help them become more successful in their jobs and in their homes. But teaching your child time management skills means that you, as the parent, must train yourself to.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Nursing Colleagues, Time for Action – Join Forces & Save Lives!

Relentless School Nurse

This is another opportunity for the legions of nurses across this country to have our voices heard. We can work collaboratively with physicians, and other healthcare professionals to ask the Senate to vote on the Assault Weapons Ban Act before this current session ends in just a few weeks.

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In This Together: Holiday Edition

A Positive Approach To Teen Health

As winter sets in and the holiday season unfolds, family and friends may gather around a cozy fireplace drinking hot cocoa while sharing memories of the past times. Some may have already finished decorating all around as they tuck their last gifts under the Christmas tree.

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Happy Birthday Arizona Health and Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Long before Title IX, Ina E. Gittings (1885-1966) became the first university director of Women’s Physical Education and Athletics in Arizona in 1920. She introduced female students to archery, track and field, horseback riding and other sports.

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3 distinctions PE Teachers should know

Drowning in the Shallow

When we reduce things down to its simplest level the PE Teacher has only two things they have any control over to influence children’s learning in PE and making it a meaningful experience. The first is the type of tasks and practices they design for children to participate in.

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Creating a Safe Sleep Environment for Your Baby

Stanford Childrens

Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert recommending that parents and caregivers not use infant head shaping pillows because they can create an unsafe sleep environment for infants, and may increase the risk of suffocation and death.

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Creating an Awesome Primary PE, School Sport and Physical Activity Offer CPD at Dorney Lake, Feb 2023

PE Scholar

Join us at Dorney Lake, Windsor on Mon 6th Feb 2023 to learn how to create an Awesome Primary PE, School Sport and Physical Activity Offer. Insight

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Top 5 Blogs of 2022

Relentless School Nurse

It’s that time of year again; let’s review the top 5 blog posts of 2022! There is no surprise that the majority of the top blog posts are COVID-related. Thank you to all of the readers of my blog, especially friends and colleagues who have left messages, both public and private.

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The 1985 Chicago Bears - The Greatest NFL Defense of all time

The Sporting

The Chicago Bears of 1985 had the best defense the NFL has ever seen The Purple People Eaters, the Legion of Boom, the Steel Curtain, the Monsters of Midway and so many other great NFL Defenses have their place on the NFL’s Greatest Defenses list.

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FITRADIO Lunch & Learn

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Are you interested in learning about FITRADIO or do you have questions for them? We will be having a Lunch & Learn with Aria Zambataro from FITRADIO on December 8th from 11:30am- Noon (Arizona Time).

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PE teachers, stop teaching "to the spec"!

The Everlearner

Welcome to the Changing Rooms blog. I am delighted you have chosen to visit and to have a read. Now, let’s be candid… The title to this post is a bit clickbaity, right? I agree.

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Roll in the NEW YEAR – Updated January Fitness Challenge

Keeping Kids in Motion

Roll in the NEW YEAR is back and better than ever with an improved look and a new video demonstrating each of the exercises. Are you ready for the NEW YEAR? Do you and your students need the motivation to jump-start a new exercise.

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Sport England: Active Lives Children & Young People Survey (December 2022)

PE Scholar

The December 2022 report shows that children & young people’s activity levels have recovered back to pre-pandemic levels. Insight Active lives survey

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The Relentless School Nurse: Ten Years Have Passed Since Sandy Hook

Relentless School Nurse

The illustrations in this blog post are by Jen Hill for BuzzFeed News. They were woven into a story published today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sandy Hook and the subsequent school shootings since that day, December 14, 2012. . Ten years. More than 100 children. None forgotten.

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Larry Bird - The Hick from French Lick

The Sporting

NBA Greats: Larry Bird The Hick from French Lick Sometimes it is not important where a team, player, or executive, ranks in sports when referring to the top 10. What matters is being on “the list”.

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2023 Arizona Adapted Physical Education Conference

Arizona Health and Physical Education

The 2023 Arizona Adapted Physical Education Conference will be held on Thursday, February 16th at the Ability360 Sports and Fitness Complex in Phoenix. Please click on the registration link below to take advantage of discounted prices.

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Ten Predictions for Classroom-based PE in 2023

The Everlearner

As this post drops with PE teachers, the date will be 14th December. Even though 2023 remains a few weeks away, I want to take the opportunity to make projections for classroom-based PE teaching in 2023.

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Firstbeat Sports Post-Season Review – 2022 Highlights from NCAA Women’s Soccer

First Beat

A growing number of collegiate athletes are benefiting from technology as they pursue their performance dreams.

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Teaching Outdoor Adventurous Activities (OAA) in PE

PE Scholar

Access the live Zoom with Bryn Evans exploring ideas for Outdoor Adventurous Activities (OAA) in PE. Insight

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