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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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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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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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The GREAT TURKEY ESCAPE! – Game of the Week

Keeping Kids in Motion

This week’s game of the week is a Thanksgiving game called The Great Turkey Escape. The Great Turkey Escape is set on a turkey farm just days from Thanksgiving. It’s business as usually until the farmers hear a raucous coming from the barn. As.

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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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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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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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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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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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The Coaching Copyright Problem

Physical Education Update

Coaches! We have a copyright problem! That’s right. Today, when I typed the word “coaching” into Google today, here’s what I found on the first page: 22 references, with only THREE referring to actual sports coaching. What type of coaching did Google find for me? Peer Coaching. Executive Coaching. Business Coaching. Life Coaching.

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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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‘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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10 Benefits of a Back Facial

The Sporting

Back Facials: The many benefits of a back facial Back facials are essential for healthy, happy body skin. They are a treatment that exfoliates, cleanses and nourishes the skin on the back of your body. A specialised therapist will apply a special treatment from your neck down to your lower back. This treatment will extract oil, dirt and grime from your skin.

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2022 State Convention Recap

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Thank you to all that attended the 2022 Arizona Health and Physical Education State Convention. We appreciate everyone taking the time out of their busy schedules and away from your kids to join us. Also we are asking presenters to upload any handouts or presentations that they would like to share onto the convention schedule. Click here for schedule.

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Lessons an Athletic Director Learned as a Line Cook (Part 3)

Montessori Physical Education

I was today years old when I realized… I was embarrassingly old when I discovered most of the food you order is premade in some way. I had this fantasy: cooks in the kitchen happily made my favorite dishes from scratch. I also thought that the process of making a dish happened every time an order came in and was done in real-time. Let's take a BLT, for example.

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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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The Greatest England players of all time

The Sporting

The 5 Greatest footballers to play for England The country where the sport originated, England’s close association with football evidently dates back centuries. While widely recognized as a football superpower, England have only won 1 international trophy despite regular appearances at major tournaments. Despite the trophy dearth, a number of players have dazzled on a regular basis whilst representing the Three Lions, with some doing it in the biggest games.

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Micronutrients to Support the Autoimmune Response

Designs for Health

Autoimmune conditions are believed to influence up to 1 in 20 adults in the U.S. Some evidence indicates that the incidence of autoimmune conditions may be increasing. Recent research suggests that some micronutrients may support health in the presence of certain autoimmune conditions. . Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a progressive, systemic autoimmune disease characterized by joint involvement and destruction of bone and cartilage.

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Active Advent – a FREE Way to Get Your Children More Active in School this December

Association for Physical Education

14/11/2022 Join thousands of Primary Schools who are taking part in Active Advent from 5th to 16th December… It’s guaranteed to keep your class active, focussed and engaged during this […]. The post Active Advent – a FREE Way to Get Your Children More Active in School this December appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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Respiratory Syncytial Virus: What You Should Know About RSV

Stanford Childrens

RSV is a highly contagious, seasonal virus that causes symptoms such as trouble breathing and other more severe disease in infants. Like many children’s hospitals across the country, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is experiencing an increased number of pediatric patients hospitalized with respiratory viruses such as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus ( RSV ).

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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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The Benefits of Green Tea Polyphenols on the Immune System

Designs for Health

Green tea, or Camellia sinensis, is estimated to be the second most consumed beverage in the world, with water being the first. Epidemiological studies indicate that green tea consumption is associated with several health-promoting benefits, including the support of healthy body weight and cardiovascular health. Recent research is investigating the beneficial role of green tea on the immune system.

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Give to the Max 2022 - Thank you

AKA Sports

I just want to thank everyone for your support for AKASPORT and donations to our Give to the Max Day campaign. As is the case every year at this time, for one, I am humbled by the incredible nonprofits and charities that we are surrounded by and two, yes, we were coaching much of the afternoon and evening. That's what we do best. Drew, Thomas, and I had steady programs yesterday and I got to finish the evening off with my friend, Coach Jack.

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Smallest Baby Born in 2020 Turns 2 and Rules the Day

Stanford Childrens

Om is a little king. He rules his household, but in a mischievous and fun-loving way. “He thinks he owns everyone and everything around him. He’s strong and brave. Nothing stops him, or makes him sad or scared,” says his mom, Dhara. The couple was deciding between two names, but when he was born, they knew he was “Om.” In Sanskrit, om is the sacred syllable.

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Football's coming Home - Fantasy Football and Euro 96

The Sporting

Football’s coming home - Fantasy Football, Euro 1996, the England Football team and a Summer of love So you may have found yourself here because you are wondering why England football fans constantly refer to “it’s coming home” whenever they play in a major tournament such as the World Cup or the European Championships. Not only do they say it, but they also sing it, and now every two years they tell everyone in jest and in hope that “it’s coming home this year for sure”.

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#PhysEdU North American Roadtrip

The Physical Educator

It’s time to take this show on the road! A couple of weeks ago, I had the honour of being the keynote speaker at the 2022 TAPHE Conference here in Nova Scotia. It was my first in-person conference since the start of the pandemic and – I’m not going to lie – I was nervous! I take speaking at an event very seriously. Physical and health educators have gone through so much over the past couple of years, which has taken a toll on the amount of time, energy, and attention that they can co

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The Fundamentals of Coaching Football

Player Development Project

Coaching football is a complex activity, requiring a wide array of different skills. But there are several simple measures that all coaches — new and experienced — can take in order to improve. Below, PDP Co-Founder Dave Wright examines some of the most important aspects of football coaching, and offers practical advice for coaches seeking to improve the way they work with their players.

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Opportunities to Better Engage Students in PE

Gopher PE

Some kids naturally love PE classes, either because they enjoy sports or they relish the opportunity to get out from behind a desk and burn off excess energy. However, for those who aren’t fans of exercise, PE is not a class to look forward to. Sometimes PE teachers face a tough job getting students engaged and motivated in their lessons, so let’s take a look at some tactics that can help.

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Top 5 Most Successful Football National Teams

The Sporting

The best football national teams of all time! With the 2022 Qatar World Cup just one week away, The Sporting Blog takes a look at the most decorated national teams in the history of football. Every nation involved will be fighting tooth and nail to bring home one of the most, if not the most, sought-after trophy in the world. Players will tell you that lifting some of these trophies were the best moments of their lives, let alone the biggest accomplishments of their career.

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The Best Physical Activity Programs to Organize a Group of Mixed Age Students with Limited Staff

Skillastics

Most people would recognize the famous movie line, “Life is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re going to get.” The same line could easily represent the average day as a physical activity director! Some weeks might have adequately-staffed classes or groups perfectly aligned by age, and other weeks may have mixed age groups, or facing staffing shortages or staff with limited physical activity/fitness training.

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The Active Primary Schools Conference 2022: Sponsors

Aspire-Ed

We’re delighted to be headline sponsors of The Active Primary Schools Conference 2022 alongside The PE Hub! Supporting primary schools to increase the quality of their PE, sport and physical activity is at the heart of the conference. Which is why we’re a sponsor. Because it’s at the heart of what we do too. A bit about us. The first ten years of a child’s life provides a critical window for creating a lifelong commitment to physical activity.

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Football Skills: Passing Student Worksheet

PE Scholar

This student worksheet on passing provides 5 student tasks that encourage learners to coach, discuss, practice, design and reflect.

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Spain 2010 World Cup - The best national team of all time?

The Sporting

Spain World Cup 2010: The greatest national team of all-time Ten years have passed since one of the greatest – if not the greatest – national teams lifted the World Cup trophy in South Africa in 2010. Spain were the best of the best for five years between 2008 and 2012. During that time, they lifted the European Championship trophy in 2008 and 2012 and, of course, the 2010 World Cup trophy in South Africa.

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Action for Healthy Kids Hosts First National Conference

PE for Parents

The post Action for Healthy Kids Hosts First National Conference appeared first on Action for Healthy Kids.

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Safety in Sport Perception Survey

Association for Physical Education

18/11/22 In July 2022, Podium in collaboration with YouGov and Sports Governing Body partners (Rugby Football Union, England Athletics and England Hockey), conducted its first Safety in Sport Perception Study. […]. The post Safety in Sport Perception Survey appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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The Best Physical Activity Programs to Organize a Group of Mixed Age Students with Limited Staff

Skillastics

Most people would recognize the famous movie line, “Life is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re going to get.” The same line could easily represent the average day as a physical activity director! Some weeks might have adequately-staffed classes or groups perfectly aligned by age, and other weeks may have mixed age groups, or facing staffing shortages or staff with limited physical activity/fitness training.