January, 2023

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A Brand New Tool for PE You Didn’t Know You Needed!

Gopher PE

How do you keep track of physical education equipment for your school or district? When I was teaching, I had a spiral notebook that I used to write down all of our equipment each year.

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ULTIMATE TEAM PINBALL – a cross between ultimate disc and team handball

Keeping Kids in Motion

This is by far one of my favorite games with grades four – high school. Ultimate Team Pinball nicely mashes together elements of ultimate Frisbee and team handball. As you’ll see in the video, it’s a fast paced, actioned-packed, and a lot of fun.

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How Adults Take the Joy Out of Sports (And How We Can Fix It)

Changing the Game Project

We have all seen it. I was recently watching a 12-year-old boys soccer game, and I saw it again. Like a deer in the headlights, the left defender on the. The post How Adults Take the Joy Out of Sports (And How We Can Fix It) appeared first on Changing the Game Project.

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Determined to Succeed: An Interview with Liam Ridgewell

Player Development Project

Liam Ridgewell enjoyed a 17-year career as a professional footballer. After making his senior debut for Aston Villa, he went on to play over 300 games in English football before joining MLS side Portland Timbers, where he is now a coach.

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5 Things That Parents Sacrifice For Their Children

RC Families

Parents sacrifice things for their children all the time; sleep, money and time are the obvious things they relinquish. Parenting is a sacrificial job, no doubt about it. But sometimes parents must learn to sacrifice above and beyond and in ways that they had not anticipated.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Thank you Project N95 for Providing Protection

Relentless School Nurse

Today is our first day back to school after a much-needed holiday break. My Camden, New Jersey school district is one of two in NJ that is instituting a temporary return to universal masking following our break.

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Creating the opportunity to learn

Learning Through Sport

It has long been argued that teaching and coaching must be based on sound, rigorous research and systematic evidence of what works, how and why it works, where it works and for whom it works (Slavin, 2002).

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Is FOMO Ruining Youth Sports?

Changing the Game Project

(Yesterday I had the opportunity to present to a group of orthopedics, physical therapists, athletic trainers and coaches on FOMO: Fear of Missing Out, and why I think it is. The post Is FOMO Ruining Youth Sports? appeared first on Changing the Game Project.

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JUMP for FITNESS – 25 days of JUMP ROPE and other EXERCISES

Keeping Kids in Motion

The trusty jump rope once again grabs the spotlight for February’s Flourish with Fitness Challenge. JUMP for FITNESS is designed to increase awareness of all the benefits from jumping rope. Jump rope is one of the most effective cardiovascular exercises. Along with benefits to the.

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How to Teach Jump Rope in PhysEd Class

The PE Specialist

What’s Up PhysEd Friends! If you’re anything like me before you started teaching you didn’t really know much about jumping rope. To be honest, I didn’t know a single jump rope trick before I became a teacher.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Stories From the Field – Meet Meg Jenkins!

Relentless School Nurse

My last blog was a call for stories to share from school nurses across the country. I was excited to hear from Meg Jenkins, a New Hampshire school nurse and incoming Director to the NASN Board. She is a great Twitter friend and fellow gun violence prevention advocate. You can follow Meg on Twitter!

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Why gym members love fitness programmes for older adults

My Zone

Inspiring older adults to keep active, the owner of Mercian Fitness in the UK, Ian Northcott, knows the benefits that movement and mobility bring at any age, as does his community. Community

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Children’s Mental Health week

The PE Hub

How to get involved in Children’s Mental Health Week Monday 6 th February marks the beginning of Children’s Mental Health week. The theme for 2023 is ‘Let’s Connect’ which is especially poignant after the last few years we had.

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Action for Healthy Kids Adds New Members to Board of Directors

PE for Parents

The post Action for Healthy Kids Adds New Members to Board of Directors appeared first on Action for Healthy Kids. News & Press Releases

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My PE Classroom Part 1/10 - The Word Wall

The Everlearner

In this week’s post, I’m going to begin writing about the first of 10 practical suggestions for PE classrooms up and down the country and beyond.

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Adventure Learning (Grades 6-12)

Open Phys Ed

Establishing a sense of community within physical education classrooms is essential to developing students that are open to trying new activities and experiences.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Nurses Once Again Listed as the Most Trusted Profession…But Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?

Relentless School Nurse

I read the news that Gallup released their annual poll of the most trusted and respected professions. Nurses have come in first for twenty-one years straight. The one year we came in second to firefighters was after 9/11.

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Gladstone is creating a new culture that's driving employee happiness

My Zone

The leading leisure management software provider, Gladstone, is successfully using Myzone to bring its people together around the common theme of fitness and wellbeing. Corporate wellness Community

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Help Build an Understanding of Physical Literacy

Association for Physical Education

09/01/2023 Physical literacy is the foundation of movement, which is why Sport England is helping organisations working with children and young people to understand what it means and why it […].

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Midyear Corrections: Little Things that Make a Big Difference

Gopher PE

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Pool Sharks – A PE version of BILLIARDS

Keeping Kids in Motion

Pool Sharks began as a station (center) with my second-grade students several years ago. I placed a hula hoop, half a pool noodle, and a 6-inch gator ball in the corner of the gym. Imagining the noodle as a pool stick and the hoop. Physical Education

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How to Improve your Hurdle Skills

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Kids love using hurdles. Hurdles are fun or can be fun and entertaining when we become good at using them. Hurdles are an easy-to-set-up piece of equipment, easy to transport, and easy for all ages and skill levels. Best Practices Fitness Future Professionals Health Skill Development

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The Psychology of Coaching

Player Development Project

The psychological components of coaching have a huge impact on the development of our players — both on and off the pitch. As coaches, we have a responsibility to understand these components, in order to provide supportive and constructive learning environments for the kids we work with.

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3 tips to get your New Year’s resolutions to stick

My Zone

New Year’s resolutions, or any habits, come in all shapes and sizes, but they all follow the same basic loop: cue, trigger, reward. Here's how to use that knowledge to your advantage and make exercise or wellbeing habits stick. Community

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Changes to Edexcel GCSE PE Exams - Will this arrest the slump?

The Everlearner

On 17th June 2022, Edexcel/Pearson published their changes to their qualifications for first assessment in 2023. This means that current Year 11 students will be sitting exams that are structured differently to those sat by Year 11s in summer 2022. GCSE PE Edexcel GCSE Teaching PE

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What is an outstanding PE lesson? 2.0 10 Years On

PE Scholar

Exploring what key pedagogical principles make great PE lessons. 10 years later I am re-visiting what makes an outstanding PE lesson. Insight

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PADDLE PICK’EM UP! – a partner/whole class teamwork challenge

Keeping Kids in Motion

It is imperative to sprinkle in team-building challenges throughout the year. Any unit can benefit from activities that promote communication, cooperation, sharing ideas, making compromises, and opportunities for failure and success.

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10 Tips for Improving Your Posture

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Author: Dana Brown. Good posture is important for so many reasons. Not only does it make you look more put-together, but it also helps to alleviate pain in the back, neck, and shoulders. Poor posture can lead to a number of health problems, including headaches, tension, and even depression.

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Do no harm mindsets

Drowning in the Shallow

How can we ensure that experience of PE does no harm? One way is to improve our ethical decision making, which requires a shift in mindset in how we see PE, how we advocate for PE and how we respond to other people’s stories of their experience of PE.

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What are the secrets to improving your wellbeing?

My Zone

There are time-served and steadfast ways of improving your wellbeing. There are also plenty of nuanced approaches that make the difference, but may not be such stand-out options. Health and wellbeing

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The Relentless School Nurse: A Haunting Message From a Child Survivor of a School Shooting

Relentless School Nurse

“I’m sorry I let you down. I’m sorry I let you die.” ” This is the message 10-year-old Daniel Ruiz wrote to his cousin, who was killed at the Uvalde school shooting, along with classmates and teachers.