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Fishin’ for Change: Combining Physical Education and Outdoor Recreation

SHAPE America

We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. It’s also a great help to own or borrow enough rods to use them in PE classes prior to the trip.

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This Is How My School Stocks Up on Kindness … and PE Equipment

SHAPE America

I alternate each year between the option that gives our school the full 50% back and the option where we get 25% and our chosen charity gets the other 25%. So far, we have supported our local Police Canine Unit (helping them get a new dog) and our Parks and Recreation Department.

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An unusual school celebrates its first century

Stanford Childrens

K-12 hospital school gives kids a chance for normalcy and connections to other kids during long recoveries At most schools, the two students would never have met. One boy was a teenager in high school, the other a child in early elementary school.

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What does the Adapted Physical Education teacher really do?

Arizona Health and Physical Education

For example, my caseload right now is about 40 students and throughout the week I travel to 8 different schools, several elementary schools and one high school. . Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 81 (2), p.40-50. Now what do I mean by settings? 2023 AzHPE Adapted Physical Education Conference.

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Teaching Rhythm and Dance In Physical Education

The Physical Educator

If you’d like to try this activity out with your students, I recreated the tracking sheets that the teacher uses in the video. I now have what I think is a first-couple-weeks-of-the-school-year, kindergarten-level understanding of musical notes, and that’s enough to give me the confidence I need to move forward.

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COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Physical Activity

Spark PE

Across the globe, efforts to promote social distancing directly affected physical activity of youth by closing schools, which affected physical activity opportunities including physical education, recess, after-school sports and activities, and walking and biking to school.

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Focus on injury prevention, wellness earns top mark for Bound Brook High girls basketball, USA Today

Whole Child Sports

Which is not, in any way, shape or form, to suggest or insinuate that co-ed and boys teams (at the recreational and travel levels) do not sorely need more female coaches too: THEY DO. To wit, check out Bound Brook’s killa Coach Jen. And know this: Youth sports needs MORE WOMEN coaching girls.