November, 2022

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Teaching Lacrosse in Physical Education Using the New USA Lacrosse Curriculum

SHAPE America

The “fastest game on two feet” … baggataway … the creator’s game. No matter how you refer to it, lacrosse is a great game to teach your students in physical education class! SHAPE America and USA Lacrosse recently collaborated on an updated, comprehensive physical education lacrosse curriculum. This “Lacrosse in Schools” curriculum will serve as a great resource for K-12 health and physical education teachers, whether you are: Brand new to the game and looking to add a new activity to your PE cl

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The Relentless School Nurse: Road Rage Has Come Out From Behind the Wheel

Relentless School Nurse

I have come to the conclusion that our country is filled with road rage. The anger and frustration displayed in cars has come out from behind the wheel into the streets, schools, and other public spaces. I began to notice it systemically when COVID reared its ugly head almost three long years ago. Those would be dog years, so more like 21 human years ago.

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Is teaching Physical Education (PE) a tough job? Why I have stopped trying to be a better teacher and revert to wanting to make sense of what I am doing and why.

Reinventing the Game

It has been many months of not visiting my personal blogging habit as a way to delve more comprehensively into a job that can very easily take on an event or activity management role. There has been more than enough lamenting here on our seemingly ‘babysitter’ job for ‘fresh air’ in between the more important business of academic, examinable subjects.

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Half-Time Twittering

Physical Education Update

Technology is bound to affect sports in ways we could never imagine. An example happened last week in the NBA. It was the convergence of wireless computer technology, the internet and the social networking service called Twitter. Twitter is a social networking site that allows users to post quick thoughts to the internet. Examples might be, “Dick hates shopping, but he’s going for groceries now anyway.

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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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O Captain! My Captain! Looking to the Leadership of School Principals in Supporting Active Schools

Active Schools Us

By: Collin A. Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Sport Pedagogy. University of Birmingham Dubai. Walt Whitman’s well-known 1865 poem “O Captain! My Captain!” about an intrepid sea captain’s death at the end of a victorious voyage is a metaphorical tribute to Abraham Lincoln. In 1989, the movie “Dead Poets Society” capitalized on the poem’s title and themes to personify the inspirational attribute of undaunted leadership through the character of Mr.

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TARGETing the motivational climate in PE

Drowning in the Shallow

Mary Kennedy’s (2016) offers a conceptualisation of teaching that is through the lens of persistent challenges.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Sharing an Interprofessional Op-Ed – Thanks to Twitter

Relentless School Nurse

Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register. . Twitter, while undergoing some unfortunate gyrations with its new owner, is still a space where I believe you can find like-minded people who care deeply about the health and wellbeing of children, youth, and school communities. I consider social media part of my school nursing practice, a place for education, advocacy, and interprofessional collaborations.

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Post-Shot Expected Goals (PSxG): What is it and why does it matter?

The Sporting

Explaining Post-Shot Expected Goals (PSxG): Part of our series on new forms of football statistics. Part 1 of 3 in a mini-series on modern football’s most cutting-edge statistics, by Sollie Cook. In recent years, football clubs and fans alike have become increasingly obsessed with stats as a means of understanding player and team performance. This fascination with numbers has led many clubs across Europe towards a data-driven approach to their recruitment and training methods in pursuit of a fai

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Romanians Have Physical Education Problems Too

Physical Education Update

In the early mornings, my clock radio kicks off the day with “Radio Romania” as part of the Canadian Broadcast Company’s morning programming (depending on how long I stay in bed, I can also hear English broadcasts from South Korea, Australia and Poland). Not long ago, while rubbing the sleep from my eyes and nudging the dog off the bed, I overheard the Romanian announcers discussing the state of physical education and youth fitness in their country.

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10 Signs You are Over-Parenting

RC Families

After working with parents for many years, I’ve observed that one of the pitfalls parents fall into is over-parenting. Call it helicopter parenting, lawnmower parenting, or even over-involved–the bottom line is that those parents feel a need to step in and maintain some sort of control. Not me! You may say. But let’s take a. Read More.

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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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Securing your first PE teacher job

PE Scholar

Luke Jones shares his experience of a relentless pursuit to secure his first pe teacher job and how he got his first teaching post.

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Holiday Caroling Tag – Game of the Week

Keeping Kids in Motion

For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting a holiday game of the week. Don’t miss out! Be sure to subscribe for notifications. This week’s game is called, HOLIDAY CAROLING TAG. Scrooge, Grinch, and Jack Frost are once again feeling grumpy this holiday season.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Peers Supporting Each Other

Relentless School Nurse

. A group of school nurses has quietly gathered every Sunday evening from 7 – 8 pm for more than two years in support of each other. The numbers fluctuate but usually hover around 15. For an hour most Sunday nights, we come together to provide peer support. The conversations focused on the stressors related to COVID and the impact on our health and well-being as we scrambled to keep up with the ever-changing public health emergency.

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Interplay Between Exercise and Gut Health: How to Improve Exercise with a Happy Gut

The Sporting

How to use exercise to build a happy, healthy gut We are constantly told that to improve our endurance we need to: lift more weight, work out more or have a healthy diet. However, what if it goes beyond all of this. What if, to improve our endurance, we also need a happy gut? Gut microbiota and exercise are interconnected, according to recent studies.

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Physical Education Training Produces Better Academic Teachers

Physical Education Update

One thing about physical educators is that they realize the value of making lessons fun. They also realize that an active child is a child better able to learn. This often applies for those physical educators who teach academic subjects. A great example is Marilyn Rodgers of Hernando High school in Desoto Mississipi, an experienced physical educator whose teaching skills were considered too valuable to be wasted on “gym.” Instead she was placed in a history classroom where she remain

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Gratitude Games

Open Phys Ed

Welcome to Gratitude Games This updated module includes your favorite Turkey Trot and Gratitude Games with some new favorites just added. Add some active joy to the month of November and use the gratitude-focused debrief questions to get your students thinking about the true meaning of the season. Plus, combine the academic language cards and Turkey Trot Crew Cards to create a festive, fun and meaningful bulletin board or word wall.

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PE Activities: Rethinking How We Classify Sports and Physical Activities

PE Scholar

Ever wondered if there is a better way to classify sport and physical activity to meet the needs of more individuals in PE?

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In Season Strength Training

PLT4M

As coaches, we all want to win. We implore our athletes to spend the off-season training to become bigger, faster, stronger. But, the moment practice begins, our focus shifts and training sessions become an afterthought. This is dangerous. Let’s take a look at in season strength training and break down the why, what, and how! While in-season, your athletes will adapt to the rigors of practices and games, often reaching peak physical conditioning for that sport.

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The Relentless School Nure: Sharing a Moral Twitter Dilemma

Relentless School Nurse

Twitter has been my go-to social media platform for many years. The doors that have opened for me thanks to relationships built through Twitter have taken me from my health office to the halls of Congress, to co-authored Op-Eds in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, to Current Trauma Reports, Harvard Law, and a lecture hall at University of Pennsylvania Nursing School where I spoke at the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Town Hall.

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Italian Football Stadiums - The Complete Guide to all 64 Stadiums

The Sporting

A guide to the wonderful world of all 64 Italian football stadiums! One would only expect that the land that built the Colosseum as a symbol of entertainment would also have great stadiums and be super passionate about modern-day sports such as football. And they would be absolutely correct! The worldwide passion for football is shared by both the Italian players and their fierce supporters.

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Food Container Rant

Physical Education Update

This is the tale of an invention rendered ineffective because of corporate greed. Strictly speaking, it’s not a physical education issue, but it does affect any teacher who packs a lunch for school or team trips. What invention am I talking about? Plastic food storage containers. I’m the king of leftovers. I eat them for most lunches. And when I pack for team trips, I usually pack my travel munchies in a plastic storage container so they don’t get scrunched.

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How to Recognize and Treat Concussions in Kids

Stanford Childrens

Recently, the NFL changed a key element of its concussion policy after one of its players returned to play too early and reignited the head injury conversation across the country. A concussion is defined as a traumatic brain injury caused by a blow to the head or jolt to the body that results in immediate and temporary neurological symptoms. It can cause difficulty with focus, balance, sleep, and more, which is why as fall sports are underway, it’s important for parents to recognize the signs an

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How To Gain Maximum Benefits Following Your Team’s World Cup Break

First Beat

With the FIFA World Cup in full swing, many European soccer teams are having a short break during this time. This break period allows teams to build their strategies, work with their conditioning elements and enables the players not playing for their national teams to recover from their demanding schedule. From a conditioning point of view the question arises: What should the teams and players consider to gain maximum benefits from the break?

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PE Games – Christmas Activities

The PE Specialist

What’s Up Phys Ed Friends! So, let’s be honest, you (and your students) are probably counting down the days to Christmas Break – am I right? Expect your students to be off the walls as they await all the joys that 2 weeks out of school and the promise of brand new toys can bring. Don’t […].

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The Relentless School Nurse: Courageous Conversations About Gun Violence & Prevention at the NJEA Convention

Relentless School Nurse

. What an honor to be invited to speak before the closing general session of the 2022 New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) Convention. My appreciation to Dr. Christine Miles, NJEA Director of Professional Development & Instructional Issues for inviting me to share my family’s story of gun violence over several generations. Here is a transcript of my message: Before I share my story, I want you to stop for a moment and ask you to think of a time when something in your life happened

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The 5 Best Belgian Footballers of all-time

The Sporting

The 5 Greatest ever Belgian Footballers While often underappreciated due to a lack of major international honours, Belgium is still widely renowned for the amount of talent it produces on a regular basis. But who are Belgium’s greatest players? The Belgians tend to perform well in major tournaments despite a dearth of silverware; and these performances stretch across different eras, illustrating a collective mentality gotten through patriotism and pride rather than solely individual quality.

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PE Students Need Senior Citizen Role-Models

Physical Education Update

One of the primary goals of any physical education program is the development of our students’ ability to maintain an active lifestyle throughout their lives. I’m the beneficiary of my own school experience in PE and sport. I still play a weekly game of old-man’s basketball – in my old high school gym with some of my old high school schoolmates – in a ritual that has been part of that school since the mid-1960’s.

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‘He Saved My Life’: Honoring a Pioneer Transplant Surgeon for 35 Years of Saving Lives

Stanford Childrens

Jenny Tice, 34, makes sure to live each day to its fullest. She is a Bay Area native, works in finance in San Francisco, lives an active lifestyle, and volunteers. However, these milestones wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Carlos Esquivel, MD , chief of the Division of Transplantation at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. He saved her life, twice.

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DIY Neon Ice Activity – Combining Crafts & Science

S&S

Sometimes the coolest results can come from the simplest ingredients. Here is a perfect example of that! How2PlayToday has shared a step-by-step activity on how to make neon ice. It produces some amazing outcomes, but don’t use it to cool … Read More. The post DIY Neon Ice Activity – Combining Crafts & Science appeared first on S&S Blog.

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Michael Beale: Inside the Liverpool Academy

Player Development Project

Michael Beale has had the privilege of coaching some of the best young talent in England from the very beginning of their developmental journey. A UEFA A license holder with 10 years experience at Chelsea FC before making the move to Liverpool FC where he now manages the U21s, Michael gives us an in depth. The post Michael Beale: Inside the Liverpool Academy appeared first on Player Development Project.

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The Relentless School Nurse: PACEs Connection is a Wonderful Organization to Support on this #GivingTuesday2022

Relentless School Nurse

I am not sure where I would be today without the information, community, support, and collaborations I have experienced with the team at PACEs Connection (formerly ACEs Connection). Right now this amazing organization is in need of support. I wrote a blog post about what PACEs Connection has meant to me over the years. I am honored that they used my comments to create a #GivingTuesday2022 plea for support.

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Boston Celtics Colors and Logo History

The Sporting

Why do the Boston Celtics wear green? The story and details of the Celtics colors and logo In this article, we look at the history of the Boston Celtics logo! We discuss the different colors and logos that the team have played in, including full details of their HEX, RGB and CYMK codes. A brief introduction to the Celtics When Boston Garden owner Walter Brown decided to revive the former New York Celtics in 1946, it’s incredible to think that he was founding a team that would go through some of

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Downhill Skiing Video Is A Sure Adrenaline Rush

Physical Education Update

The Winter Olympics have just been put to bed and with it the adrenaline rush you get from watching death-defying high-speed sports. Two of my favorite events are downhill skiing and the giant slalom. That stems from the days of the Crazy Canucks, a group of Canadian downhill skiers who made Canada’s first impact into World Cup skiing in the 1970s and ’80s.

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Premature Baby Turns 2 After Traumatic Start

Stanford Childrens

Juliana Vidigal was just shy of 26 weeks pregnant when she started bleeding and feeling abdominal pain. She immediately called her neighbor, who gave her a ride to a nearby hospital in San Francisco. The news wasn’t good. “The doctor said, ‘Your risk for premature labor is 100%. You have to go to Stanford Medicine Children’s Health ,’” Juliana says.

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Alumni Spotlight: Bryson Preddy

MSU

Bryson Preddy is a U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret with 23 years of service, assigned to 10 th Special Forces Group in Fort Carson, Colorado. He has been deployed 13 times to 11 different countries on three different continents. About 14 years ago, he coached his son’s first flag football team and fell in love with it. Since then, he has pursued volunteer opportunities to coach and continued his education, all in hope of becoming a coach one day when he retires.