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Our Nation’s Education System Needs Active Schools – and YOU as a Champion for Them

Active Schools Us

By: Charlene Burgeson. Executive Director, Active Schools. We have a problem. Fortunately, there is a solution. The problem is that three quarters of our nation’s youth are not regularly active. Data from CDC pretty much tells the story: less than one-quarter (24%) of children 6 to 17 years of age participate in 60 minutes of physical activity every day.

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Turning Red Brain Break – Spot The Difference!

Elementary P.E. Games

Overview. If you’re looking for a Turning Red brain break or interactive game, then you came to the right place! I’m excited to announce the newest series to my brain break collection – Spot The Difference! Turning Red – Spot The Difference is a fun fitness workout game that will definitely get everyone up and moving It’s very similar to my “I Spy” brain break activities, only this one has a twist to it.

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3 Tips to EASILY Incorporate MORE Yoga and Stretching Into PE!

Gopher PE

Stretching and Yoga are some of the most beneficial movements you can add to your PE program. Not every student is comfortable with these types of movements. Check out a few ways to help students with their balance, flexibility, and coordination while keeping them engaged and interested. 1. Build It Into a Routine for Every Class. As teachers, our daily lessons reflect what we want our students to learn and be able to do.

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Teacher Talks - Jim (James) Hambel

Fit and Fun Play

Jim Hambel is an elementary physical education teacher in the South Bronx, New York City, New York. He has been teaching PE for more than 10 years and is a member of the National Bowling Hall of Fame.

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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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Active Classrooms Month 2022 – Webinar Recordings

Active Schools Us

_. Calming & Refocusing Strategies for the Classrooms. Presenters: VA CMO Cadre partnered with Fauquier County, VA FRESH Program. Incorporating movement into the classroom can be stressful without the proper routines to calm and refocus students. This workshop will provide a variety of tools, tips, and techniques to help teachers navigate the transitions between sessions of physical activity.

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Reintegrating Players After a Soccer Injury

Player Development Project

Coming back after a soccer injury can be physically and psychologically challenging for young players. As coaches, we must support them while they’re unable to play, be careful not to rush them back, and provide encouragement when it’s time for them to return. In this Q&A, we discuss some effective methods of injury prevention, ways to keep players involved while they’re going through recovery, and how to safely reintegrate them after a soccer injury.

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Teacher Talks - Andrew Romberger

Fit and Fun Play

Andrew Romberger is a Health & PE Resource Teacher in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District of North Carolina. Andrew has been working in education for more than 18 years, with 12 of those years spent as an elementary physical education teacher.

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Parents, Give Yourselves Permission to do These 5 Things

RC Families

Parents are very sacrificial people. They give up a lot for their kids–sleep, time, energy, money, comfort–and they seldom ask for anything in return. While raising three kids who played sports all year round, my husband and I sacrificed a lot for them. And there were days when I almost forgot who I was, besides. Read More.

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Classroom Management’s Best Kept Secret -Empowering Students to be Proactive Problem Solvers

Gopher PE

Don’t let classroom management barriers become reasons to avoid facilitating team or group activities. The skills that contribute to being a good teammate are skills that will help maintain positive relationships throughout life and they need to be explicitly taught. Because of the opportunity for students to be on teams, physical education provides an ideal platform to facilitate these valuable life skills that connect with social-emotional learning.

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PASS IT ON! (5 Rounds of Action) – Game of the Week

Keeping Kids in Motion

Often throughout the school year, I’ll weave activities specific to team building and cooperation into my lessons. As stated in a previous post called, TEACHING TEAM BUILDING IS EASY AS 1, 2, 3, 4!

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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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Developmental Delays Are Emerging Epidemic in Preschool-Aged Children

Fit and Fun Play

A study , published in 2019, explored the possibility of a growing epidemic of developmental delays in preschool-aged children. The results were not reassuring.

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Connecting the Dots: The Role of Art in Fostering Connectedness

PE for Parents

The post Connecting the Dots: The Role of Art in Fostering Connectedness appeared first on Action for Healthy Kids.

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Physical Education for Students with Disabilities in North American and European Contexts

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

Listen in on the March NCPEID collaborative featuring a panel of experts in the Adapted Physical Activity (APA) field, as they discuss what’s going on in the field of physical education from services & programs, to inclusion and support, and how these compare from a North American context to a European context. This panel of experts include Hayley Morrison, assistant professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, Aija Klavina, professor at Lithuanian Sport University in Lithuania, Kwok Ng

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Early Childhood 101

Rennie Center

Early Childhood 101. catherine-rauseo. Mon, 03/28/2022 - 13:47.

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Recapping knowledge

Delamere Academy

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Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility in Physical Education (Part Two)

The Physical Educator

This is part two of my three-part blog post mini-series on the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) model. Here are links to the other posts in this series: • Part One: Introducing The TPSR Model and The Five Levels of Responsibility. • Part Two: Nine Teaching Strategies That Support TPSR In The Classroom. • Part Three: How To Structure A TPSR Lesson.

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Firstbeat Sports to the 2022 CSCCa National Conference

First Beat

Firstbeat Sports is attending this year’s National Conference of the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches association (CSCCa) on May 2-4, 2022. The event will be held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This is a big event for coaches in North America with practical sessions, keynote speakers and panel discussions covering a wide range of coaching and training topics.

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