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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. This early commercialism can overshadow the fundamental aim of youth sports: enjoyment, character development, a growing love for the sport, and holistic well-being.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

Research consistently shows a link between low physical activity in adulthood and low movement competence (World Health Organization, 2024). This is important in a country like Australia where reports have suggested we have low youth and adult physical activity compared to previous generations. 1999; Westerbeek et al.,

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The Relentless School Nurse: Resilience in the Face of Opposition – The Gun Safety Movement’s Path Forward

Relentless School Nurse

Gun safety has evolved into a powerful social movement, transcending political divisions through its focus on public health and community well-being. A pivotal strategy within the gun safety movement has been its successful reframing of gun violence as a public health epidemic.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Finding Consensus in Conflict – Lessons from a Groundbreaking Health Conversation

Relentless School Nurse

Thats the premise behind a recent, must-listen podcast episode that brings together five grassroots leaders from the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement and five prominent public health experts for an honest, eye-opening conversation. Bridging the Divide In todays America, debates about health have become deeply polarized.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Time for a “Nurses SHIFT Change”

Relentless School Nurse

Nurses SHIFT Change is a vibrant national movement dedicated to uniting nurses nationwide in a powerful call to action. The movement is driven by the belief that nurses are essential advocates for both their patients and their profession. What Is Nurses SHIFT Change? Why Nurses SHIFT Change Matters Nursing is at a turning point.

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How I Received Grants for My Physical Education Classes

SHAPE America

Bicycle Grants The CYCLE Kids grant (valued at $25,000) provides schools with 10 new bikes, helmets, a bike pump, and textbooks that teach cycle basics as well as nutrition. You may have seen or heard of schools that have large projector screens with sensors that detect and register movement from a student.

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Redundancy and Degeneracy in Teaching for Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

This paper explore the ecological perspective to the complexity existence that skills learning takes place in, i.e. why and how movement emerges. This is perhaps opposed to the more palatable perspective of skills learning as solely mechanical and existing in a ‘simple’ environment of learner and teacher, i.e. how movement is created.