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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

SHAPE America

My name is Casey Page and I am a physical education teacher in Shelby County, Kentucky, which is a suburb of Louisville. I also coach golf and am an assistant athletic director at our school, but I have always thought of myself as a teacher first. As a PE teacher, you already know the gym gets stolen from you all the time.

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Using the City as Your Physical Education Classroom

SHAPE America

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. The answer to the first was a unanimous “Yes,” but the silence following the second question spoke volumes.

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Fitness Through Play: How to Reimagine Physical Education for Lifelong Wellness

SHAPE America

Students move in ways they enjoy, explore their strengths, and reinforce skills that transfer to recess, sports and recreational life. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and the 2025 SHAPE America National Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year. This is purposeful play.

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High School Physical Education Curriculum

PLT4M

PE teachers can’t do it alone. School leaders—including PE teachers, curriculum directors, principals, and counselors—must work together to build a program that reflects the needs of today’s students. Curriculum directors, principals, superintendents, and guidance counselors all have a role to play.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

While recreation sport in curriculum time didn't feature in any of the schools I worked in, when I started my teaching career in the late 1980s, in many jurisdictions school sport was still in curriculum time. In Year 12, a new principal decided to stop this program so more time could go ito academics.

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2025 Adapted Physical Education Blog, Welcome Back Edition

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Hard to believe that a short 6 or 8 weeks ago, we were counting down to the END of the school year, and now here we are getting ready for another round of “meet the teacher” night! The APE department at Mesa Public Schools also created a document that we give out to all of our paraprofessionals and PE teachers at the beginning of the year.

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Transfer of learning in physical education

Learning Through Sport

In this curriculum design there is insufficient time for the volume of practice required through deliberate play and practice to master technical and tactical skills of an activity to the level where a student previously not playing the sport can reach at least a social-recreational level of ability to play/participate in the activity.