SHAPE America
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
I’ll share some of those details in this article, and maybe you’ll find a few ideas for sharing lifetime sports with your students. We started piecing together the idea of a mobile PE class that would focus on lifetime sports. Golf: We go to Topgolf to learn one of the best lifetime sports around. This plays out in several ways.
SHAPE America
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Too often, when I introduce new sports or fitness activities, my predominantly African American students say, “That’s a white sport.” Our bikes became tools for community service, whether it was cleaning up litter at Ridge Road Recreation or handing out water to protesters at Black Lives Matter Plaza.
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SHAPE America
MAY 22, 2025
Students move in ways they enjoy, explore their strengths, and reinforce skills that transfer to recess, sports and recreational life. Lets be clear this isnt free-for-all or roll out the ball time. This is purposeful play. I set up a variety of play stations with suggestions for movement, including a 5K tracker.
Learning Through Sport
MARCH 23, 2025
School sport participation can be a conversation conundrum. I know many people don't have positive experiences with sport. I reckon that the research shows this is how the coach and others 'construct' and input into the sport environment rather than being inherent to sport itself. 1999; Westerbeek et al.,
Better Coaching
DECEMBER 24, 2024
More, Younger Youth sports occupy a special place in American culture, shaping childrens character, health, and social lives. Across the United States, an increasing number of parents and coachesoften with good intentionsseek to introduce sports to children at younger and younger ages and with greater intensity than ever before.
PLT4M
JUNE 19, 2025
Some districts lower graduation requirements, citing sports or outside activities as enough. Whether a school offers foundational fitness, in-depth health education, sport-based modules, weight lifting, yoga, personal fitness, or game-based electives, PLT4M has it covered. From the 2024 U.S
MSU
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Jennifer Roth Michigan State University, Institute for the Study of Youth Sports The youth sport environment can be a great place for youth to learn important life skills that they can transfer to other areas of their lives. Recently, in the United States, there has been an increase in the professionalization of youth sport.
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