April, 2021

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Tabata Time Workout (Apr.26-27) and Merry-Go-Round Workout (Apr.29-30)

Mr. Suarez's Physical Education

For those that need a refresher or another copy for themselves, below are the workouts completed for the week of April 26th-30th. Don't forget to record your workout and turn it into google classroom by the end of the class period. Tabata Time Workout (Apr.26-27) Slide 1 - Title Slide 2 - Agenda Slide 3 - Workout Video Merry-Go-Round Workout (Apr.29-30) Slide 1 - Title Slide 2 - Agenda Slide 3 - Workout Description Slide 4 - Workout Video As always, email me [tsuarez@musd.org] if you have any qu

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Online Learning Institute: Supporting Young People through Movement and Play Beyond the School Day

School Spring Board

NOTE: This Online Learning Institute was held on April 15, 2021. Below is information and resources from the training. In order to help young people reach 60 minutes of daily physical activity, school health leaders should take advantage of every opportunity to infuse movement into all parts of the day. While physical education, recess, and physical activity in the classroom are all excellent ways to increase physical activity minutes, opportunities for physical activity extend well beyond the t

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A 'Mea Culpa' to the Reader

Informed Practitioner in Sport

Regular readers will likely be aware that among other things I write and publish books. Where I've proved less successful to date - and have even been neglectful - is marketing and promoting those books. I have recently come to realise how illogical my thinking on this has been, which prompted me to post a public mea culpa thread on Twitter ( @InformedinSport for those who are interested).

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CHILDHOOD IN THE TIME OF COVID by Save the Children

Physed n Health

Every Child Has a Right to a Childhood. Childhood should be a time when our nation’s youngest citizens develop into the adults who. will care for and lead our country, our world, and our shared future. Every child deserves love, care and protection so they can develop to their full potential. Yet for millions of children in. the United States – and hundreds of millions more children around the world – childhood is. ending too soon.

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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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Striking Analysis Activity

The PE Geek

The basic movement pattern of striking is used in many physical activities and sports. The ability to use an effective movement pattern to strike an object with an implement or the body is critical for successful performance. The correct movement pattern for striking should demonstrate the following : STANCE: Generally side on. A more “open” stance where the batter’s body is rotated frontwards will mean less time is required for the swing to be executed.

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How to create an individual development plan for soccer players

Player Development Project

An individual development plan is an important tool in helping a player to improve and appreciate their own progress. As coaches, we can use individual plans to help kids recognize their own strengths and weaknesses, identify the things they would like to improve on, and understand how they can do it. By working alongside players to create effective learning plans, we can facilitate self-reflection, encourage them to take ownership of their own journey in the game, and, most importantly, help th

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5 Ways to Help Your Children Succeed Without Being an Overbearing Sports Parent

RC Families

Would you say you are an overbearing sports parent? Throughout 21 years of being a sports mom and 33 years of being a coach’s wife, I have never met a parent who did not want their child to succeed in youth sports. Each one had their own unique way of supporting and/or pushing their child. Read More.

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The Game Sense Approach: 25 years on

Learning Through Sport

The Game Sense approach (GSA) was introduced to Australian sport during Australian Sports Commission (ASC) national workshops in 1996, prompting coach education providers and national sport development resources to emphasise the approach, and its embrace of increased player involvement in the coaching process. Despite that the Game Sense approach remains a foregrounded feature of the Sport Australia Playing for Life Philosophy and the pedagogical model of the Sport Australia Sporting Schools pro

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Middle School Kids Need Our Help

AKA Sports

A lot of information has come out about the impact of the pandemic on humans across the world, but one group that seemed to be most overlooked was our middle grade kids. Not old enough to work or drive, but too old to just play all day at home. Unlike their younger siblings, they were not excited about spending hours and hours with mom and dad and were instead missing their friends, their outlets and their routines.

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Why Meaningful PE for my Students? – Milena Trojanovic

Lampe

The following guest blog is from our series highlighting chapters from our recently published book Meaningful Physical Education: An Approach for Teaching and Learning. A little over a year ago I was asked to consider contributing a chapter to a book about Meaningful Physical Education. I didn’t know where to start.

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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.

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Realising the Value of Debate

Informed Practitioner in Sport

History provides numerous instances where hotbeds for innovation and progress have sprung up within a particular geographical location (a recent example would be silicon valley). This phenomenon occurs where you find a high concentration of bright inquisitive people who are open and enthusiastic about sharing their ideas and collaborating to create something new and interesting; this acts as a beacon that draws other bright inquisitive minds, in turn generating renewed energy and fueling further

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Sit-Up and Sprint Workout (Apr.19-20) and La-Z-Boy Stretch Routine (Apr.22-23)

Mr. Suarez's Physical Education

For those that need a refresher or another copy for themselves, below are the workouts completed for the week of April 19th-23rd. Don't forget to record your workout and turn it into google classroom by the end of the class period. Sit-Up and Sprint Workout (Apr.19-20) Slide 1 - Title Slide 2 - Agenda Slide 3 - Workout Description Slide 4 - Workout Video La-Z-Boy Stretch Routine (Apr.22-23) Slide 1 - Title Slide 2 - Agenda Slide 3 - Workout Video As always, email me [tsuarez@musd.org] if you hav

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How to Stop from Becoming Micromanaging Parents

RC Families

Are you becoming one of those micromanaging parents? Do you constantly interfere when your child has a friend over to play? Insist they always wear clothes that meet your standards? Hover over them on the sidelines as they play sports? Constantly check on them as they do their homework? Micromanaging, also known as over-parenting, shows. Read More.

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Appreciative inquiry: A strengths-based perspective for identifying and creating positive change in the design and enactment of physical and sport education

Learning Through Sport

Critical theorising over the past thirty years presents an argument that the program design and pedagogical enactment of physical education makes little educational impact or influence on the lives of many if not most students. A deficit physical education narrative is created by the crisis and critical research for the teaching profession. At the AIESEP conference in 2016 I asked the question, ‘How might the PE and sport educational discourse develop if instead of beginning with a problem, the

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52 Weeks, Part II

AKA Sports

Perhaps you will see the parallel nature of Part I and Part II. Perhaps not. Nevertheless… I wish you all well… Here is… 52 weeks later… Part II : Getting out of your Comfort Zone If you know anything about David Goggins , Wim Hof , or Tony Robbins , you may know where I’m going to go with this. Legends in my motivational mind. Frequenters in my early morning routine earbuds.

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How To Protect Your Child From Addiction

I Love to Watch You Play

How To Protect Your Child From Addiction Nearly 1 in 5 (19.4%) of adolescents age 12 and up used an illicit drug in the past year (SAMHSA, 2018) Between 2006 and 2015, there were 36,422 adolescent and young adult drug-related deaths in the U.S. (Ali et al., 2019) In the 15-24 year age range, 50% of deaths (from accidents, homicides, suicides) involve alcohol or drug abuse.

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The Role of Health in Physical Education

i-phys-ed

As an early career teacher, physical education to me was about sports and getting kids active. But as my career has progressed and I’ve thought more about my role as a physical and health educator, I’ve started to wonder about whether the way that I teach health or engage my students in learning about health … The Role of Health in Physical Education Read More ».

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Self-Direction (Apr.21 - Homeroom Mentor Session)

Mr. Suarez's Physical Education

"FOR HOMEROOM MENTORING ONLY" In order to make the necessary edits, don't forget to first make a copy of the google slides presentation for yourself. The focus of this weeks mentor session was "Self-Direction". As always, email me if you have any questions / concerns / suggestions.

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How to Coach Soccer: Soccer Coaching Insights From One of the World’s Best Academies

Player Development Project

Player Development Project sits down with Andrew Watt, Youth Development Phase Manager at Fulham FC, to discuss how the Premier League club supports players across the U9-U16 age groups. Below, Andrew provides insights into the Fulham Academy’s principles, his views on talent identification, the different approaches to coaching kids from U9s all the way through to U16s, and how to manage the transitions to different game formats.

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Finding The Summit

Shape PA

Finding The Summit By definition a summit is: the highest point of a hill or mountain. the highest attainable level of achievement. a meeting between people who are interested in the same subject. When we tried to think of a name for the relaunch of our professional journal, it only seemed fitting that after a year of what seemed like uphill climbing, we landed on the name, The Summit.

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Parenting Love Looks Like WHAT?

RC Families

Parenting love began the moment you held your child in your arms, whether they came from your womb or someone else birthed them. At first, it may seem easy to love our kids, when they are helpless, cute, and oh-so-innocent. But as they grow older, parenting love takes on more challenges as kids become resistant. Read More.

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How to be a more confident Sports Coach

Sports Coaching FAQ

Self-confidence is a vital component of successful sports performance and is an attribute that effective sports coaches seek to develop in their athletes along side technical and tactical skills. However, self-confidence is also an important element of being an effective sports coach, and therefore it is important that a coach focuses on developing their own self-confidence to be able to more effectively support their athletes.

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Sleep And Your Athlete: The Most Potential For Positive Impact On Athletic Performance

I Love to Watch You Play

Sleep And Your Athlete: The Most Potential For Positive Impact On Athletic Performance Sleep has “the most potential for positive impact on athletic performance,” according to sleepforsuccesswestport.com. More than training modifications, coaching, nutrition, or conditioning, scientists have called it "the most potent performance-enhancing activity that we know of.

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The Mountain Workout (Apr.5-6) and Russell Relaxation 10 (Apr.8)

Mr. Suarez's Physical Education

For those that need a refresher or another copy for themselves, below are the workouts completed for the week of April 5th-9th. Don't forget to record your workout and turn it into google classroom by the end of the class period. The Mountain Workout (Apr.5-6) Slide 1 - Title Slide 2 - Agenda Slide 3 - Workout Description Slide 4 - Workout Video Russell Relaxation 10 (Apr.8) Slide 1 - Title Slide 2 - Agenda Slide 3 - Workout Video As always, email me [tsuarez@musd.org] if you have any questions/

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Breaking Down Barriers in Sports Psychology

Player Development Project

Is psychology being embraced in coaching environments? Many modern coaching courses and clubs have improved their advocacy of sports psychology, but is there still a stigma or reluctance to hone in on the psychological component of coaching? New PDP contributor, Blaine McKenna shares his research after a survey of coaches in Northern Ireland working in the game as to how they engage with psychology in their coaching environment.

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Cool Stories and Zombie Ideas

Informed Practitioner in Sport

Every now and then a new concept spreads like wildfire and is soon adopted at scale by organisations and professionals within a given domain. This is a scenario that seems to be especially prevalent within professional sport and the performance sciences in general. Initially early adopters are drawn in by an appealing message and a story that they find compelling.

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What Will Keep Your Home From Falling Apart When Trouble Comes?

RC Families

When trouble comes, will your house stand strong? Every household is going to face difficulty at some point. It may be a job loss, a relationship crumbling, sickness, or financial stress. It may be as tragic as death or as simple as annoying neighbors. Whatever the problem is, it rattles your peaceful home and can. Read More.

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Mr Murton’s Keep Fit Interactive YouTube Videos @MMurtonPESHS

PE 4 Learning

Mr Murton’s Resource Drive Click this link to access all of Mr Murton’s uploads to his personal PE4Learning User Folder Interactive Fitness Videos.

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101 on teaching children with visual impairments in PE

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

Hello listeners and viewers! In this special episode, we had Dr. Lauren Liberman from SUNY Brockport college to discuss how to teach students with visual impairments (VI) in a physical education setting. Dr. Lauren Lieberman is a a Distinguished Service Professor in the area of adapted physical education. Prior to graduate school, she taught at the Perkins School for the Blind in the Deafblind program for five years.

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Mr. Fantastic Workout (Mar.30) and 20/20 Workout (Apr.1-2)

Mr. Suarez's Physical Education

For those that need a refresher or another copy for themselves, below are the workouts completed for the week of March 30th - April 2nd. Don't forget to record your workout and turn it into google classroom by the end of the class period. Mr. Fantastic Routine (Mar.30) Slide 1 - Title Slide 2 - Agenda and Workout Video 20/20 Workout (Apr.1-2) Slide 1 - Title Slide 2 - Workout Description Slide 3 - Agenda Slide 4 - Workout Video As always, email me [tsuarez@musd.org] if you have any questions/con

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Squirrels and the need to know – Greg Dryer

Lampe

Greg Dryer is the Co-founder of miMove app. He’s based in London, UK but the app is being used in over 200 schools around the world. Greg can be contacted at greg@mimoveapp.com or @greg_dryer / @mimoveapp. Squirrels. In the literature about meaning-making, squirrels do not feature particularly prominently.

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D-SHINES: Lessons, Content, Activities & More – 4/26-30

Elementary PE Ideas & Resources

Grades K-2: [link]. Grades 3-5: [link].

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The why, what, and how of Meaningful Physical Education: PART 3

Lampe

How do I teach using Meaningful PE? In our early experimentation with Meaningful PE, we and others relied largely on using the features of meaningful physical education (both those described above and those identified by students independently) to facilitate a shared language with students.

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The why, what, and how of Meaningful Physical Education: PART 2

Lampe

In this post we turn our attention to the ‘what’ of Meaningful PE: what is it about and what does a meaningful experience tend to consist of?

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D-SHINES – Lessons, Content, Activities & More: 4/19-23

Elementary PE Ideas & Resources

Grades K-2: [link]. Grades 3-5: [link].

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