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Gamification in PE

Drowning in the Shallow

What is gamification? Gamification as a teaching approach in PE is gaining popularity, but what exactly is it, why should it be used and how can it be implemented? Dichev and Dicheva’s (2017) critical literature review of the use of gamification in education is a useful place to start.

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The Relentless School Nurse: NASN2025 and the Power of Our Collective Voice

Relentless School Nurse

Attending NASN2025 in Austin was a reunion of the heart. Imagine over 1000 school nurses gathered in one space, each carrying stories of the deep knowing that what we do matters. It’s powerful to be surrounded by people who get it —who understand the load we carry and the joy that keeps us coming back. I was immediately struck by the energy and optimism that filled every corner of the conference center.

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Key features of Teaching Games for Understanding

PE Scholar

TGfU is a progressive approach to PE that prioritises the development of students' game understanding and decision-making abilities.

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Empowering the Next Generation of Changemakers

Rennie Center

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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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From Underdogs To Architects: How Mid-Majors Could Redesign College Sports

Athletic Director U

As college athletics accelerates into its professionalized future, much of the national conversation has focused on the Power 4, and particularly how top-tier conferences will restructure, redistribute revenue, and maintain competitive equity in a post-House world. But what if the more interesting question isn’t about the top of the pyramid, but the base?

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The Relentless School Nurse: When Public Policy Fails, Children Pay the Price

Relentless School Nurse

As school nurses, we are the sentinels of student health, on the frontlines of care, advocacy, and equity. We are not only caregivers but also witnesses to the daily realities that shape our communities and, ultimately, our nation’s future. From chronic absenteeism to unmet mental health needs, from hunger and housing instability to the trauma that walks through our doors in the bodies and behaviors of the children we serve, school nurses see it all.

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Celebrating the End of Treatment With the Giants and Red Sox

Stanford Childrens

Tarun Thiara and his family pose with Buster Posey Brennan Bernardino of the Red Sox signs Tarun’s baseball Tarun Thiara, 17, was sitting in his hospital bed, receiving chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, when a Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Child Life specialist walked in. “Do you like baseball?” he asked. Tarun and his family smiled. Tarun and his brother, Rohan, both play baseball and they especially love the San Francisco Giants.

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Skills Based Health Education

PLT4M

Skills-based health education is transforming how schools approach health instruction—shifting the focus from memorizing facts to developing real-life skills students can use to lead healthier lives. Rooted in national standards and designed to be practical, engaging, and impactful, this approach prepares students not just to know about health, but to live it.

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Strive for Excellence, Not Perfection

A Positive Approach To Teen Health

I’m a perfectionist by nature. My get-it-right attitude seeps into work, family, and social interactions. My kids, husband, and co-workers expect me to correct grammatical errors on social media posts and in books I’m reading. I can’t help it. I desperately want the tasks I’m performing to be perfect. And if they aren’t, well … my self-talk reflects my defeated mentality.

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What is Informal Sport? Negotiating Contemporary Sporting Forms

PE Scholar

Understanding sport as a spectrum of negotiated practices and decision-making, provides a useful framework for understanding (in)formality.

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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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A Cosmic Day at the Movies: Patients have A Special Screening of Disney and Pixar’s ‘Elio’

Stanford Childrens

Pixar animator Andrew Beall shows his drawing of Pixar character ‘Glordon’ to Cynthia Meza. At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford , excitement filled the halls as hospitalized young patients anticipated a heartwarming event. In a gesture of compassion and community, the hospital hosted a special screening of Disney and Pixar’s latest original feature film, Elio.

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From Page to Purpose – The Meaning Behind The Dot Book at S&S

S&S

Just Make a Mark – Why The Dot Book Aligns with the S&S Mission When we first encountered The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds, it struck a chord with our team at S&S Worldwide. The story is simple, yet powerful: … Read More The post From Page to Purpose – The Meaning Behind The Dot Book at S&S appeared first on S&S Blog.

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Should I Quit? 4 Questions Every Athlete Should Ask Themselves

Complete Performance

This week on the PerformHappy Podcast, Coach Rebecca dives into a powerful Q&A session centered around one of the most difficult crossroads in an athlete’s journey—deciding whether to keep going or walk away from their sport. Whether you’re deep in upgrade season, dreading practice, or… The post Should I Quit? 4 Questions Every Athlete Should Ask Themselves appeared first on Complete Performance Coaching.

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My Active Journal

PE Scholar

My Active Journal is the perfect pupil resource to help prompt reflections of engagement in physical activity.

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Fighting Entitlement In Your Kids

RC Families

For the sake of everyone that knows your kids, please keep them from entitlement. Entitlement is evident in the belief that one person deserves special privileges without earning them. Adults complain a lot these days about the entitlement of the younger generation which is most evident in areas where personal expectations clash with norms, rules.

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Celebrating Women In Sport With Yale’s Vicky Chun

Athletic Director U

Yale's Thomas A. Beckett Director of Athletics Vicky Chun joins ADU's Steph Garcia Cichosz at the 2024 Women Leaders Convention to discuss the power of women's sports, being the first at achieving a milestone, the growth of women's basketball and more.

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An Update on the Science of Skin: PeptiYouth™

Designs for Health

The skin is the first organ of the body that shows signs of aging, which can manifest as altered skin texture, loss of tone and elasticity, and decreased suppleness. Aging skin is influenced by both external and internal factors, including oxidative stress , mitochondrial dysfunction, and the accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). These factors are associated with natural changes to aging skin, including reduced protein synthesis, which inherently affects proper elastin and coll

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The Relentless School Nurse: The “Big Beautiful Bill is Actually a “Big Brutal Betrayal”

Relentless School Nurse

Like many school nurses, I have witnessed firsthand the consequences when policy decisions overlook the children and families who depend on our nation’s safety net. The passage of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is being hailed by its supporters as a victory for American families, but beneath the celebratory rhetoric lies a harsh truth: this legislation is a brutal betrayal, especially of our most vulnerable.

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