Mindful PE

JULY 23, 2021

One of the biggest changes I experienced moving from a classroom teacher position to the PE teacher position was figuring out what to teach and when for all grades, K-5, for the entire year. It felt so overwhelming! In this post I am sharing some of the resources I found most useful when it came to deciding and planing out my scope and sequence for the school year.

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Learning Through Sport

JULY 22, 2021

Play with Purpose provides both a curriculum development template and lesson design by addressing teacher decision-making concerning what, why, and how to teach activities in the games and sport focus area of physical education. Play with Purpose is a response to game based approaches being 'rolled out' as the 'game is the teacher' with the anticipation that, like some sort of osmosis, learning occurs simply by getting students to play a form of modified, adapted, constrained, conditioned (choos

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Growing Healthy Kids

JULY 21, 2021

"Issues like diabetes do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest in prevention." --Jacinda Ardern I hate diabetes. It can rob people of their sight, their limbs, their kidney function, their lives. It causes people to go on kidney dialysis. It puts people at 2-4 times higher risk for having a heart attack or stroke than someone without diabetes.

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RC Families

JULY 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s hard to ask for parenting advice. As moms and dads, it’s humbling to admit that we don’t’ have all the answers. But the honest truth is that parents have a huge learning handicap; there’s really no way to properly prepare for all the challenges that parenting throws at you. Our kids, after all, Read More.

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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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Mindful PE

JULY 22, 2021

This past year, during COVID, was my first year as a PE teacher after nearly fifteen years as a 3rd and 5th grade general education teacher. There are so many ways to describe how the year went, mainly because it felt like everything was changing by the week. But some of the main things I came back to, time and again, and am continuing to use this year as I head into my second year, I want to share with you in this series: New to PE?

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JULY 20, 2021

The following guest blog is from our series highlighting chapters from our recently published book Meaningful Physical Education: An Approach for Teaching and Learning. Thank you for taking the time to read our blog post!

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