PLT4M

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Participation in PE classes can support physical, mental, and emotional health among students now and into their adult lives. Physical education is more than just a scheduled block in the school day—it’s an opportunity for fostering lifelong health and fitness habits. However, not all PE programs are created equal.

PE

Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I also came away with the reflection that the health care providers need those qualities as well, to take care of the teams and help them maintain success. At a training at UCLA in Los Angeles I worked with athletes from the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Sparks, and the Dodgers.

Sports

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 3, 2025

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 4 (3), 420-438. Journal of Sport Exercise Science , 7 , 12-20. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 9 (3), 321-338. Agnew, D., & & Abery, E. Parents views on coaching in youth community sport settings. Sport in Society, 26 (8), 1455-1473.

Coaching

Learning Through Sport

MARCH 23, 2025

Research consistently shows a link between low physical activity in adulthood and low movement competence (World Health Organization, 2024). Journal of school health , 83 (1), 8-13. The lancet child & adolescent health , 4 (1), 23-35. School sport participation during adolescence and mental health in early adulthood.

Sports

Teen Health Mississippi

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By incorporating communication exercises, Iesha ensured that participants were well-prepared to advocate for their communities with confidence and clarity. Learn More The post THMS Youth Leader Shares Team-Building and Leadership Tips appeared first on Teen Health Mississippi.

Creativity

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School is devoted to making sure students exercise their bodies along with their brains. My commitment to promoting and advocating physical education has led me to serve as president of the Arizona Health and Physical Education Association.

Education

Stanford Childrens

MARCH 3, 2025

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that children spend no more than 40 hours per week listening to a personal audio device (again, at levels no higher than 75 dB). Even many headphones that are marketed as kid safe reach 85 or 90 dB. How long is too long?

Academics

Magnus Health

JUNE 18, 2025

From boosting mental clarity to reducing stress, daily routines like eating healthy, exercising, and getting enough sleep can innately set your mind and body up for long-term success. If you use Magnus Health, determine the best way to share information with everyone. How will you document health center visits? Enjoy the summer!

Schooling

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The focus is on age-appropriate exercises such as bodyweight movements, light resistance training, and core stability work. These exercises improve strength, coordination, and help prevent injuries. Students also learn proper form and the importance of regular physical activity for overall health.

Flexibility

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

The main goal of this curriculum model is to provide students with the skills, knowledge and disposition to maintain lifetime physical activity through a health-related curricular focus that promotes physical activity. Health orientated/optimising physical education (HOPE: e.g. Metzler et al., Integrated Physical Education. Metzler, M.,

Physical Education

Magnus Health

APRIL 24, 2025

Normalize Talking About Mental Health One key part of making the classroom feel like a safe space is to normalize the feelings students may be experiencing. Try this as a class wide activity before a test or when you feel like the class could benefit from a grounding exercise.

Nervous system

PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Importance of High-Quality Elementary PE Lesson Plans Elementary physical education is about so much more than just games or physical activity; its about laying the foundation for lifelong health, wellness, and physical literacy. This will help lay the foundation for lifelong fitness and wellness.

Elementary

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Not long ago, I worked hard to categorize my lessons using the SHAPE standards (Society of Health and Physical Educators) to ensure I covered key movement patterns and motor skills. It was an eye-opening and fulfilling exercise.

PE Teacher

Magnus Health

JANUARY 22, 2025

This season, keep these winter sports safety and health tips in mind for your K-12 student athletes. Prevent Winter Sports Injuries Injury prevention should be a top concern for coaches and health staff year-round. Since cold muscles are more prone to injuries, it’s essential to warm up the body before any exercise.

Sports

Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Physical activity isnt just about exercise its about brain breaks, social-emotional growth, and giving children the space to recharge and refocus after a long school day. Staff dont need to memorize complex exercises or create workout routines from scratch. Kids need movement.

Physical Activity

The Everlearner

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Specificity! Progression! Reversibility! This is the hitting zone for PE teachers and highly influential subject knowledge for us all whether teaching Key stages 1-5 or teaching a PE qualification such as GCSE or A-level or BTEC.

Teaching

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

Simple exercises, games, or activities with clear instructions ensure the substitute can manage the class with ease. Even when the teacher is absent, PE should still promote movement and exercise. Heres how to make PE sub days effective: Keep It Simple Choose activities that require minimal setup and equipment.

PE

The Everlearner

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In recent weeks, the team (Andy Tolley, Hannah Curtis, Kim Nkonde and myself) have been analysing and writing ExamSimulator content for the brand-new International Baccalaureate Sports, exercise and health science course (IB SEHS), which is being taught and studied all around the world since September 2024.

Exercise

The Everlearner

APRIL 23, 2025

Dear PE colleagues, As most of you know, my team and I have been providing revision experiences for PE and Sport courses for well over a decade.

PE

AASP

JUNE 26, 2025

The consequences, they argue, are a cascade of severe health conditions ranging from asthma and facial malformation to ADHD and depression. Frontiers in public health, 5 , 222. We are living through a breathing renaissance… at least, it appears that way given the number of books and TikTok videos on breathwork. Their solution?

Nervous system

Designs for Health

JULY 11, 2025

American diets can provide the required essential nutrients to support health or the means to push an individual closer to disease. During physical exercise and exposure to hot weather, sweating is the largest source of water and electrolyte loss (e.g.,

Nutrition

Relentless School Nurse

APRIL 1, 2025

School nurses serve as educators, advocates, and crisis managers at the critical intersection of health and education. One of the most pressing issues is the growing mental health crisis among students. The proposed cuts in Medicaid funding may also have a destabilizing impact on school health services.

Wellness

Designs for Health

JULY 17, 2025

during stress, such as fasting or exercise), and elevated circulating amino acids. Promoting GI health and balanced detoxification mechanisms , ensuring nutrient sufficiency, and maintaining muscle mass are crucial for individuals aiming for healthy glucose and insulin metabolism, as well as balanced hormone levels.

Nutrition

Relentless School Nurse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

When you hear “exercise snacks,” you might think of a protein bar or a piece of fruit. In 2023, consider incorporating these short bursts of activity into your daily routine to help achieve the recommended 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per week.

Exercise

SHAPE America

AUGUST 4, 2022

At times it was a challenge, but the experience proved to be great for my mental health, creativity, and growth as a teacher. For example, we used the play structures for warm-ups (chutes and ladders, follow the leader, partner exercise, upper body workout, climb and jump, etc.). Stairwells can provide a great fitness workout.

Gyms

SHAPE America

AUGUST 11, 2022

At one such lunch with Mary Henninger, professor in the PETE program at Illinois State University, we began jotting down notes on a napkin — strategies for launching a successful career as a health and physical education teacher. You’ll find a broad network of health and physical education professionals on Twitter. We share resources.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

AUGUST 12, 2024

Last year, I also signed up for the inaugural cohort of SHAPE America’s Leading Healthy Schools program, which gave me the chance to work collaboratively with other administrators from across the country who were also passionate about improving the health and wellness of their school community.

Wellness

The Sporting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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. Gut microbiota and exercise are interconnected, according to recent studies. However, what if it goes beyond all of this. What is our gut microbiome?

Exercise

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LESSONS FROM HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATORS We need health and physical education (HPE) teachers to flood classrooms at all levels with ideas and inspiration. A CASE FOR MORE MOVEMENT IN SCHOOL Physical activity improves fitness, weight management, mental health, behavior, and most other medical conditions.

Physical Activity

The Everlearner

MARCH 6, 2024

A new course will be first taught in August 2024 and first assessed in summer 2026 , replacing the existing IB Sport, exercise and health science course that was first assessed at SL in 2014 and HL in 2018. The International Baccalaureate Standard Level (SL) and Higher Level (HL) are changing.

Exercise

Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

How fortunate my Camden City School District (CCSD) is to have the investment and dedication of the Rutgers-Camden School of Nursing as a partner in health and learning! Schools of Nursing and local school district nurses are uniquely positioned to strategically support each other’s missions and visions.

Health

SHAPE America

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Help Teens Focus on Health and Avoid Nicotine. The mix of highs and lows over the holidays is a good reason for teens to focus on their health. Eating healthy food, getting enough rest, and making time to exercise are three ways they can counter the challenges of the season and get ready for the new year. Focus on health.

Exercise

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

From these teachers and coaches, students learn just how important physical activity is for physical, mental, and social-emotional health. Here is a sample fun beginner circuit (listed as a regression/primary exercise/progression). Set up your program to meet the level of each student so they can grow and develop at their pace.

Motor Skills

The Everlearner

JUNE 12, 2024

Dear PE colleagues, The new International Baccalaureate Sports, Exercise and Health Science (IB SEHS) course is fascinating. So much so that, despite its more international than UK-centric usage, I believe that all PE and Sport teachers need an awareness of it.

Exercise

Relentless School Nurse

JANUARY 16, 2024

The “Operation Happy Nurse” app, developed by neonatal ICU nurse Shannon McPeek, is a groundbreaking mobile application designed to provide mental health support and essential resources tailored specifically for nurses. By prioritizing our mental health, we are better equipped to support our students.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Courageous Well-Being for Nurses a newly released book by nurse/psychotherapist/educator, Dr. Donna Gaffney and certified health and wellness coach, Nicole Foster, serves as an invaluable resource for nurses grappling with burnout and seeking ways to enhance their well-being. You can have a sneak peek inside the book by clicking on this link.

Wellness

Physical Education Update

AUGUST 12, 2022

Here’s a funny video about the benefits of exercise and the disadvantages of inactivity. It’s estimated that low levels of exercise are currently responsible for six of the seven leading risk factors for disease in Europe. tags]physical education,inactivity,exercise,obesity> [/tags]. Physical Education Update.

Exercise