October, 2022

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New FDA Resource Helps Teachers Educate Students About the Dangers of Vaping

SHAPE America

Helping Students Avoid Vaping and Nicotine Addiction. As educators, you know that National Health Education Week is a good time to focus on issues that affect the health of our nation’s youth. One important concern is the threat that vaping nicotine poses to middle and high school students. Vaping can put students at risk for nicotine addiction, harm developing brains, and influence their performance at school.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Do You Feel Like You are Swimming Against The Tide?

Relentless School Nurse

. The first few months of school have been a whirlwind of confusion, missteps, and a complete lack of clarity. All of this adds up to often making me feel like a salmon, swimming fiercely upstream, against the tide. The tide, in this case, is the complacency in protection that has grown out of the misunderstanding that COVID is behind us. Meanwhile, ask most school nurses, and you will hear about cases growing, but they may not be counted because home tests are not being accurately reported.

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Questioning

Drowning in the Shallow

Questioning is an important teacher behaviour within PE. It is a key part of Rosenshine’s principles of instruction (2012).

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Airlines – The Tilting Seat Dilemma

Physical Education Update

I don’t like air travel. It’s because I have a slight case of claustrophobia, that shows itself only occasionally…like when I get caught in an avalanche, become pinned under a toppled elephant, or travel in an airplane. Sometimes the latter is worst of the three situations. Having just completed a team trip involving air travel – and knowing there are other claustrophobic fliers out there – here’s a suggestion to the airlines that will help those with my affli

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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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Halloween Brain Break For Kids – Halloween Races!

Elementary P.E. Games

Overview. The newest Halloween Brain Break has arrived, and it’s the ultimate showdown in this edition of Halloween Races! Halloween Races is fun movement break and brain break game for kids! This interactive activity makes for a great classroom game or fun fitness workout to help get kids up and moving. You can find the directions on how to play and full video down below!

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Building Your Physical Education Support System

Active Schools Us

by: Aaron Hart. OPENPhysEd.org. I’ve spent much of my career working with and talking to hundreds of physical educators around the United States. As a result, I’ve collected some important words of wisdom over the years. Most of those gems focus on the importance of building a network of support with parents and like-minded colleagues. For many physical educators, parents come into our classrooms with deeply held preconceptions – both good and bad.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Vote

Relentless School Nurse

. My message today is a simple one: VOTE . Vote your conscience. Vote for candidates who believe that healthcare is a human right. Vote for candidates who value protecting our children and teens from gun violence. Vote for candidates that uphold human dignity. Vote for candidates that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Vote for candidates that respect the rights of people, no matter how they identify. .

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Nike Air Force One - A History

The Sporting

Nike AF-1: The History of the Nike Air Force One Trainer The Nike Air Force One (AF-1) has become an icon of fashion, style, and comfort. People from every age-group adore these trainers for having distinctive shapes and versatile designs. We take a look at the history of the AF-1 and some of its most eponymous models. Nike Air Force-1: An Introduction Nike AF-1 satisfies every squad of customers through its technical, artistic, and functional iterations.

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Triple Jumping, Hair Braids and the Kindness of Strangers

Physical Education Update

This is the story of a triple jumper, a hair braid, the Canadian Olympic Trials and an act of kindness by a complete stranger. (“Oh sure, another one of those,” you’re probably saying. Caroline is a track and field athlete, with the emphasis on field. While she’s an excellent middle distance runner, she’s an even better triple jumper. Only 16 years old, Caroline lives in Espanola, a small, northern Ontario paper-processing town of 3000 souls, about an hour outside of the city of Sudbury.

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Pumpkin Patch Games

Open Phys Ed

Welcome to Pumpkin Patch Games! We’ve reorganized and added new activities! This new Pumpkin Patch landing page includes your favorites from years past, as well as brand new games for 2022! Thank you to the following Pumpkin Patch contributors! Drew Burris, Evan Norwood, Pam Straker, Nichole Wilder, Sarah Phillips, Paul Redman, Meggie Shoemaker, Kristen Stuber, Tracie Hammond, Tiffany Beam, Jennifer Carver, Megan Northcote, Aaron Hart.

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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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Halloween Classroom Games For Kids – Luigi’s Halloween Run!

Elementary P.E. Games

Overview. This might be one of my favorite Halloween brain breaks yet! I hope you’re not scared of ghost! Luigi’s friends have gone missing, and I have a feeling King Boo has something to do with it. Help Luigi rescue his friends by dodging the obstacles and solving the puzzles. Luigi’s Halloween run makes for a fun Halloween classroom game for kids or brain break activity that will definitely get everyone up and moving!

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Soccer Dribbling to LA RASPA (Mexican Hat Dance)

Keeping Kids in Motion

Students all over the world love fútbol or soccer as it’s called in the United States. In PE class, the soccer skills unit is an annual favorite. Each lesson focuses on a variety of skills ranging from ball handling, passing, punting, kicking for power.

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The Relentless School Nurse: I am a Jewish Woman Who is Speaking Out

Relentless School Nurse

The Nazi party was started by 3 people. I will not sit silently as the rapid rise of antisemitism swirls all around in the vitriol of hate that is festering in our country. The election is just eight days away. Violence is now part of our political discourse. With the rise of racism, misogyny, “othering,” anti-immigration, anti-LBGTQ+, and transphobia, do you see that “they” are coming for many of us?

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Know the Game - What is Rackets?

The Sporting

Rackets: Get to know the fastest ball sport in the world So we've been long lobbied to write a piece on the sport of Rackets, which is the predecessor of 'Squash Rackets', simply now known as 'Squash'. In the USA the game is spelt ‘Racquets’, but it played by the same rules in every respect, aside from the serve, where in the UK you have two serves (first and second) , in the US you only have one.

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Defeat Reveals an Athlete’s True Character

Physical Education Update

A big loss can tell you more about a person’s character than a big win. Defeat tends to strip away our layers of camouflage to reveal the person’s true nature. I witnessed just such a situation this weekend at the Ontario high school track and field championships (OFSAA). It’s a huge, prestigious, high-pressure event, involving over 2200 athletes plus a stadium-full of parents, spectators and university scouts.

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FiT Work #15 - Breast Cancer Awareness (SY22-23)

Mr. Suarez's Physical Education

FiT Work #15 - Breast Cancer Awareness (SY22-23) Slide 1 - Title Slide Slide 2 - Read the short paragraph Slide 3 - Website and Video Slide 4 - Link to Google Form - Use the stacked dots above to put the google slideshow in 'Full Screen". Due FRIDAY 10/21/22.

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SpongeBob Games For Kids – SpongeBob Races!

Elementary P.E. Games

Overview. Get ready to cheer on SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, and the whole gang as they race to the finish line in this fun SpongeBob game made for kids! You can find the directions and the full video down below! If you enjoy this fun SpongeBob game, then also be sure to check out some of my other popular brain breaks and fun workout videos: Animal Race Showdown , Minions Would You Rather?

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After Liver Transplant, 5-Year-Old Celebrates the Gift of Life With San Francisco Giants

Stanford Childrens

Partnering on Organ Donor Awareness. “Play ball!” 5-year-old Nolan Bryant yelled out as he called the start of a San Francisco Giants baseball game. It was a tall order for a kindergartner, especially since Nolan was still recovering from a liver transplant 10 months earlier at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Nolan represented organ donor recipients at the San Francisco Giants’ 23rd Annual Organ Donor Awareness Day on Sept. 14, also known as Donate Life Day.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Let’s Write Letters for Impact!

Relentless School Nurse

Here is a message from our friend, Judy Doran, the Maine school nurse who writes “Maine Points” from her health office. She became activated when she read the recent NASN/CDC survey that revealed the urgent need for mental health support for school nurses. The one where more than 8000 school nurses from across the country responded and more than half shared that they have been harassed or threatened during COVID. .

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The top 5 Footballers who only played for one club

The Sporting

The Greatest Footballers who were loyal to one club This is a list of 5 players who were one-club men, not including current players. These 5 global superstars were loyal to their club for the entirety of their football careers. 5. Ryan Giggs (Manchester United) The most decorated player in Premier League history, Ryan Giggs spent all 24 years of his professional career with Manchester United and was a key part in their resurrection and consistency as a superpower in football.

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Masters Basketball Differences

Physical Education Update

I play in one or two old-men’s basketball tournaments a year (known by the more politically correct as masters basketball tournaments). They are a lot of fun, and are a great way for us over-50 codgers to get a competitive fitness hit. I have, however, noticed several differences between masters basketball (at least, the way WE play it) and the competitive game from my younger days.

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How Scary is Too Scary for Your Kids?

RC Families

There’s a lot of scary going around this time of year. From horror movies to haunted houses to ghost-like trick-or-treaters. Of course, as adults, we take it all in fun, but what about your kids? How scary is too scary for them? The answer to that question varies from family to family and from child. Read More.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education Joins Forces with Confidence Kits!

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education is proud to partner with Confidence Kits. Confidence Kits is a non-profit born out of a group of loving and giving friends who provided hygiene kits to food banks as birthday gifts to one another, as a way of celebrating and giving back to others in need. They are completely volunteer staffed! This year, at the State Convention, we are asking attendees to bring items in to be donated to Confidence Kits.

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GHOSTLY PUMPKINS IN THE GRAVEYARD

Keeping Kids in Motion

Storyline: The silly ghostly pumpkins are once again having a friendly battle in the graveyard. They try to toss gourds at each other in an attempt to knock each other over. A knocked-over ghostly pumpkin is transformed into a jack-o-lantern and is placed on.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Celebrating Wins

Relentless School Nurse

Judy Doran, our Maine school nurse friend who writes “Maine Points” was determined to bring the concerning survey results about the state of mental health in school nursing to the public. She succeeded in writing a compelling Letter to the Editor of the Portland Press Herald! Congratulations Judy! . Here is a link to the article: Letter to the editor: Help school nurses heal from COVID’s mental health impact.

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The story of Ric Flair - Wrestler, Bad Guy and maybe the Greatest of all

The Sporting

‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair: One of the best wrestlers, and the best bad guy in the business, Woooo! It is impossible to discuss wrestling, its history, its rise, or its most prominent times and not mention the Nature Boy Ric Flair. The quintessential heel. Flair is the blueprint for which all ‘bad guys’ mould themselves—even today. The jet flyin’, limousine ridin’, kiss stealin’, wheelin’ and dealin’, son of a gun, Ric Flair, is simply the best to have ever been bad inside the squared circle.

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Christmas List for a Sport & Physical Education Editor

Physical Education Update

Well, it’s the morning of Christmas eve and, while it’s too late to write Santa, I do have some Christmas wishes related to sport. This Christmas, I wish: …For two new hamstrings to be left in my Xmas stocking. My old ones are broken. …That NFL quarterback great, Brett Favre, would finally admit that his name should be pronounced “Favréy” not “Farve.” …That they’d get rid of the offside rule in soccer.

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How to Help a Child Who is Underachieving

RC Families

Just because your child has low grades does not mean they are an underachiever. Rather, it is a child who gives a noticeably poor effort that results in grades lower than you know they are capable of. Regardless of the reason, your child probably does not feel good about under-achieving, so it is important to. Read More.

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World Mental Health Day 10.10.22

AKA Sports

Think Globally, Nurture Locally. It has been deeply encouraging to see the enormous cultural shift in acknowledging the importance of mental health continue, to start to see the shedding of its stigma and to be publicly embraced outside of the medical community in the last decade. For too long, the fear of social and professional implications has prevented individuals who suffer from major disruptions to their lives and well-being stemming from mental health matters from seeking care.

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Patients at Stanford Children’s Health Fall for Special Pumpkin Patch

Stanford Childrens

For the first time since the pandemic, the annual Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Pumpkin Patch Fall Festival at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford resumed outdoors in the Dunlevie Garden on Wednesday. In accordance with hospital safety protocols and visitor guidelines, patients and their families celebrated the traditional fall season and a joyful good time with health care staff.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Coming Full Circle

Relentless School Nurse

On Saturday, October 8, 2022, I will be participating in Gun Violence Awareness Day in Camden, New Jersey, the city where I work, but also where my family’s story of generational gun violence began. . I have told my family’s story many times. But, I have never told it in the city where it happened. This is new uncharted territory for me, so if I shed some tears, please know I am ok, but feeling very emotional as I stand here today in your city, but you will come to understand that I also c

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The 20 Greatest NBA Players of All Time

The Sporting

The Top 20 greatest NBA players of all time In bars and sports halls across the globe, the debate about who is the Greatest NBA player of all time rages daily. Is it Michael? Is it Lebron? Is it impossible to answer? Maybe. There is however a list of players who deserve to be considered among the very best to have played in the NBA, and some of these are not up for discussion.

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Officials Might be Tougher Than Athletes

Physical Education Update

Some of the National Football League games this weekend were conducted in blizzard conditions – it was exceptionally enjoyable watching them from in front of my fireplace on my LazyBoy chair. In the Buffalo versus Cleveland snow-bowl, you’d see the players complete their series of downs in the driving winds and ankle-deep snow, then head for the sidelines and their blankets and heaters.

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3 Reasons Why it’s Okay for You to Miss Your Child’s Youth Sports Event

RC Families

For many parents, youth sports is both a blessing and a curse. We love the fact that physical activity is good for our kids’ physical and emotional development, but attending every game can be a challenge for busy parents. As a sports mom for 21 years, I can remember the weekends lost to volleyball, softball. Read More.

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Arts and Physical Education Summit

Arizona Health and Physical Education

On February 22, 2023, the Arizona Department of Education will be hosting a virtual Arts and PE Summit for teachers and we welcome your expertise, talent and experience in presenting discipline-specific sessions! Sessions are 45 minutes in length and will be presented via Zoom. Accepted presenters will be eligible for a $150 stipend for their time and expertise.