Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

This underscores the futility of making high-stakes decisions about a childs athletic future in elementary school. Michigan State Universitys Institute for the Study of Youth Sports has repeatedly highlighted that many professional athletes across different sports did not specialize until mid or late adolescence.

Sports

SHAPE America

MARCH 14, 2023

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.

Recreation

SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As a physical education teacher, I have been doing school fundraisers for 23 years. In spring 2019, my school, Odessa Upper Elementary, was one of the pilot schools for SHAPE America’s health. because of the lessons (and there are a lot of them) and because I receive a lot more giveback to my school.

PE

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

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.

Physical Education

The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Learning About Dance in Physical Education This whole post started based on a conversation I had with a fellow #PhysEdU community member on how to teach dance in elementary PE. If you’d like to try this activity out with your students, I recreated the tracking sheets that the teacher uses in the video. Let’s dive in!

Dance

Whole Child Sports

MARCH 26, 2020

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.

Wellness

Stanford Childrens

MARCH 25, 2024

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.

Schooling