PLT4M

JUNE 19, 2025

The high school physical education curriculum plays a critical role in shaping students’ long-term relationship with health and fitness. PE is often the only consistent opportunity for personal fitness, especially during the school day. From the 2024 U.S Report Card on Physical Activity For Children and Youth.

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SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Resiliency is forged through rigorous training, moral grounding, and a steadfast support system from mental health resources, peers, and strong leadership. Meet Gysgt Omanahernandez: Gunnery Sergeant Edwin Paul Omanahernandez has been a Force Fitness Instructor in the Fleet Marine Force for three of his 11 years of service.

Strength

Gopher Sport

APRIL 16, 2025

Moreover, gamification offers a creative avenue to disguise skills or activities that students might not naturally favorlike certain fitness exercisesby presenting them as fun, leveled challenges. By doing so, we tap into intrinsic motivation and create a sense of accomplishment, making each lesson not just a class, but an adventure.

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Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Salvador Vargas, child passenger safety technician and program manager of the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Injury Prevention Program , provides advice to families on how to recognize a fake, as well as other important car seat safety information. That’s to ensure the seatbelt fits them correctly. What are counterfeit car seats?

Fitness

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Christi Meyer, explains how PLT4M is a valuable resource for fitting within the PE curriculum and goals, “We saw PLT4M as a valuable resource in our ability to deliver a high-quality curriculum. THE LIFETIME FITNESS PLAYBOOK FOR PE Proven strategies to introduce more Lifetime Fitness into youre Curriculum.

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Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

More, Younger Youth sports occupy a special place in American culture, shaping childrens character, health, and social lives. According to a 2019 survey by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (cited in Aspen Institute, 2021), youth sports participation patterns indicate an increasingly competitive environment.

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PLT4M

JULY 15, 2025

A high-quality health curriculum is more than a requirement—it’s a powerful tool that equips students with lifelong wellness skills. As student needs evolve, so should the way we teach health. In this article, we break down what a modern health curriculum looks like at both the middle school and high school levels.

Health

Rennie Center

JUNE 30, 2025

Each lesson fits into a standard 45–50 minute class period, making it easy to integrate into existing courses and schedules. At each site, our team partnered with educators to adapt lesson plans to fit the unique strengths and needs of their classrooms.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

JULY 31, 2025

Adapted Physical Education Blog, Welcome Back Edition, July 2025 (reposted from July 2023 and updated) Greetings Arizona Health and Physical Educators! If you have a bulletin board in your gym or locker room, if you’ve used signs during a fitness activity or game, if you’ve used a scoreboard, you’ve used visuals. Simply put, visuals!

Physical Education

Keeping Kids in Motion

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Processing is a critical part of Physical Education (PE) because it helps students understand and reflect on their physical, social, and emotional experiences, which leads to better learning and improvement. Processing provides students with a chance to openly discuss their experiencesboth positive and negativeduring and/or after a lesson.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Students also learn proper form and the importance of regular physical activity for overall health. By incorporating conditioning drills, students remain engaged while developing endurance, flexibility, and a strong fitness base for future activities. These exercises improve strength, coordination, and help prevent injuries.

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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). Younger children should use well-fitting earmuffs. Even many headphones that are marketed as kid safe reach 85 or 90 dB. How long is too long?

Academics

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

Physical activity and fitness orientated physical education. 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. Fitness for life. Collard, M. Seriously fun.

Physical Education

Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Lets be honest most after-school and expanded learning programs arent staffed with certified fitness trainers or PE teachers. But heres the truth: you dont have to be a fitness expert to foster active, healthy habits in young learners. The truth is children dont need their leaders to act like personal trainers.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

JULY 31, 2025

An engaging and dynamic health class in high school can be a game-changer for students’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. This article explores five keys to fostering a successful and impactful health class in high school. >>> It’s more than just textbook learning—it’s a chance to build lifelong skills.

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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

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

But physical education isn’t one-size-fits-all. Finding a curriculum that fits diverse age ranges, interests, and needs—all in one place—can seem challenging! Unlike subjects such as math or science, PE isn’t always linear. How do we prepare high school students for lifelong fitness?

Motor Skills

Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 27, 2025

The 4 Pillars of health we have focused on (Nutrition, Physical Activity, Sleep, and Stress Management/Relaxation) are addressed through a variety of engaging and activity-based lessons. Studies have shown that healthy students get better grades, attend school more, and often behave better in class.

Physical Education

Keeping Kids in Motion

DECEMBER 11, 2024

HEAD to HEAD SNOWMAN was inspired by Coach Gelardi’sROLL A SNOWMANgame. Setup: On each sideline, place enough cones for teams of two or three. Teams directly across from each other will compete head to head. Place three hula hoops and around each cone along with one ball (fleece, gator, tennis).

PE

Keeping Kids in Motion

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving world, a love for learning is one of the greatest gifts you can give your children. As a parent, you have the unique role of setting the foundation for your child’s curiosity, critical thinking, and adaptability.

Education

PLT4M

JULY 2, 2025

Skills-based health education is transforming how schools approach health instruction—shifting the focus from memorizing facts to developing real-life skills students can use to lead healthier lives. These standards serve as a strong foundation for health educators creating skills-based health education.

Health Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Calling all shamrock shakers and fitness fanatics! As March rolls in, the spirit of celebration is in the air, and what better way to join the festivity than by recognizing the incredible contributions of our amazing physical education (PE) teachers, health teachers and administrators?

Physical Education

Designs for Health

JANUARY 28, 2025

The gastrointestinaltract of humans requires many nutrients and other health-supportive compounds to function at its best. When working optimally, the GI tract should be able to promptly detect, respond to, and remove any threat that stands to harm GI health.

Immune system

MSU

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I am a 6-12th PE and Health teacher for the last three years at Baraga Area Schools. Finding a program that I would be interested in was tough, but after reading through the courses I knew this would be a perfect fit. I am 36 and married for 10 years to my wife Brigitte who is also an MSU graduate.

Coaching

Gopher Sport

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In this set of activities, students will race around cones, roll dice, and challenge themselves with quick fitness drills. Objectives: To improve skill and health related fitness components. Its a friendly competition focused on working together, pushing limits, and showing respect for everyone on the field.

Fitness

Stanford Childrens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Carol Conrad, MD, former director of the Pulmonary Function Lab and of the lung and heart-lung transplant program at Stanford Medicine Childrens Health, passed away Nov. 28 at her home in Menlo Park, California. She was 63. The program celebrated 35 years of lung and heart-lung transplants for children in 2024.

Conditioning

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

Now that we’ve discussed how technology can assist with sub plans, lets dive into specific grade-level considerations and how sub plans should be tailored to fit the needs of different age groups. THE LIFETIME FITNESS PLAYBOOK FOR PE Proven strategies to introduce more Lifetime Fitness into youre Curriculum. Free Download!

PE

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

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

First Beat

JUNE 12, 2025

The annual ESCCA event is one of the primary educational events in Europe for basketball performance training and a meeting point for coaches, health professionals, and sports companies from around the world. Firstbeat’s Matteo Viazzo will be in attendance at the event.

Strength

SHAPE America

JULY 25, 2024

Teaching media literacy in skills-based health education can do just that. Digital wellness education addresses the physical and emotional health impacts of media use, with attention to helping develop the conscious, balanced use of media that aligns with an individual’s goals for their health and well-being.

Health Education

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

During Health Literacy Month this October, it’s a good time to ask: What if we celebrated health literacy like we celebrate sports? What if the entire school and community applauded students for developing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to be health-literate individuals ? It might be a great fit for your school.

Health

SHAPE America

MARCH 23, 2023

On February 15, 2023, more than 130 dedicated health and physical education professionals from 33 states attended SHAPE America’s SPEAK Out! At this annual event, members of the HPE community meet with representatives of Congress to advocate for continued support and robust funding for health and physical education.

Health

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Wisconsin Health and Physical Education (WHPE), a SHAPE America state affiliate, has been “speaking out” for quality health and physical education in Wisconsin for more than two decades. Advocating for health and physical education is worth the effort! Advocacy was at an all-time high that day thanks to “Dr.

Physical Education

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. Stairwells can provide a great fitness workout. Being inside is a good time to introduce proper technique for exercises/fitness and teach partner skills (how to motivate and correct a partner’s exercise form).

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.

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