Drowning in the Shallow

DECEMBER 1, 2024

In England there has been a growing call to provide positive experiences to children and young people in PE and youth sport. It is one the five big issues of Sport England’s Uniting the Movement strategy. It has informed England’s recent consensus statement on physical literacy.

Physical Education

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.,

Sports

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Students who submitted a video were entered in a drawing to win a $50 gift card that was donated by a local sporting goods store. We also encouraged students to create a teen Move Your Way video to show how they like to get active!

Wellness

I Love to Watch You Play

JANUARY 5, 2025

Take Back the Game: Restoring Joy in Youth Sports With Linda Flanagan Take Back the Game: Restoring Joy in Youth Sports. Today, were diving into the world of youth sports with Linda Flanagan, a journalist, coach, and author of Take Back the Game. Get ready to rethink everything you know about youth sports. Lets jump in!

Sports

SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Riding For Focus and the Outride Fund are great places to start, as well as checking with your local hospitals/clinics, professional sports teams, and local businesses. Over the last 5 years, I have raised $149,000 in grants, awards and donations for PE items, including the bike park and bike fleet.

Academics

SHAPE America

JULY 24, 2025

How can it benefit students for other sports? Here are a few small changes that can make a big impact: Display a “What/Why/How” Board Create a simple visual space that answers: What are we doing today? What skill are you working on?) Why are we doing it? Where can the skill be applied elsewhere?) How will we do it? (I

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Growing up as an active sports enthusiast, she took her passion to the next level by earning a Physical and Health Education Degree and completing Teacher’s College in Canada. Her family’s journey reflects the heart of her educational philosophy: sports and fitness are universal languages that connect us, regardless of borders.

PE

Better Coaching

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Balancing Scheduling, Nutrition, and Performance The tradition of early morning practice is deeply ingrained in sports culture, often seen as a symbol of discipline and commitment. International Society of Sports Nutrition Position Stand: Protein and exercise. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition , 14(1), 20.

Nutrition

First Beat

MARCH 12, 2025

TRIMP (Training Impulse) is a powerful metric that helps sports teams quantify training load using heart rate data, enabling coaches to optimize performance, manage injury risk, and ensure athletes are game-ready. Indeed, this is the metric used within the Firstbeat Sports dashboard. The post What is TRIMP?

Sports

PE Scholar

JUNE 10, 2025

Kate Reynolds explains how activities such as boccia and new age kurling have promoted empathy and allowed students with SEND to excel.

Sports

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

has always been a question in the world of education. Often the arguments against physical education stem from games and sports being the primary focus of the class. And this also comes at a time where physical education has been a hot topic of discussion in schools. Should physical education be required? ”

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It’s something I’ve faced every day of my life, from being unable to walk until age two, to figuring out how to play sports in elementary school with only one good hand. Whether it was climbing fences to get on a horse or playing a sport, they expected me to find a way. It’s as though I had a stroke in the womb.

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Every Sport Has Its Defining Moment Every sport has its defining momentthat one skill athletes spend years perfecting. Few sports give you a true, measurable way to achieve perfection, but in bowling, its real. Its a sport of precision, mental focus, and strategy. In basketball, its the shot that could beat the buzzer.

PE

Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

These creative adaptations make Boardball an invaluable tool for PE classes, offering endless opportunities for fun and skill-building across various sports and activities. Angled Rebounder Drills: Adjust the boards angle to act as a rebounder for catching and throwing drills, perfect for developing hand-eye coordination and reaction time.

Fitness

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. During self-selected activity time, students are expected to stay active, make safe choices, and include others.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

SuperSafe Floor Hockey: A Unique and Safe Way to Teach Hockey in PE DOM Sports Hockey season is here! Hockey-Inspired Fitness Challenges It is important to highlight that conditioning and physical fitness are just as crucial as playing the sport itself. About the Author: DOM Sports Win a DOM Supersafe Floor Hockey Set! (A

Teaching

Learning Through Sport

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In the second half of 2004 we worked with a national sport on competitively engineering their junior sport experience. We had a project to work with another national sport to commence at the start of the year to competitively engineer their junior sport pathway, but that project was unfortunately cancelled.

Sports

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Nicole shares several examples of technologies that allow students to engage in meaningful sport and physical activity in a variety of unique ways. For example, she details how a student using a head switch can serve a volleyball inspired both peers and teachers.

Creativity

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.

Psychology

Mr. Kirsch

MAY 18, 2025

Many of our students dont have access to summer camps or organized sports, so Field Day might be one of the few times they get to experience team play, friendly competition, and a large-scale outdoor celebration. The passion to make Field Day a success comes from knowing its impact runs deep.

PE Teacher

First Beat

JUNE 3, 2025

But as the performance and sports science staff soon realized, understanding how each player individually responds to that load was a crucial missing piece of the puzzle. The post How Bologna FC Uses Firstbeat Sports for Internal Load Monitoring appeared first on Firstbeat.

Sports

SHAPE America

JULY 31, 2025

We talk about teamwork — not just in sports or activities, but in life. The energy, mindset and values we model spill over into the way our students treat one another. I make it a point to have intentional conversations about what it means to be part of a “dream team.”

PE

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

High School

Learning Through Sport

MARCH 1, 2025

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.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

JULY 16, 2025

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PE Teacher

Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For older children, using a sports metaphor of winning and losing might help them understand. Fill it with love and hope for the future, and place it near their photo or give it to them. When you need inspiration, read it as many times as you like. One day, when they’re older, you can read it together.

Schooling

First Beat

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In this article, Simon talks about how the team are using the Firstbeat Sports solution to ensure training practices meet the required demands, so that players perform at their best on game day. This is my third year now as a sports scientist and strength and conditioning coach here with the Blue Devils in Weiden.

Sports

Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

She’ll be able to be in sports. “It’s like my daughter is starting a whole new life,” says Vargas, who is back living in Ukiah and beaming with pride as Kate gets steadier on her little feet. I’m so excited to see her future. She won’t have any limitations. She’ll get to be a normal child, like she deserves.”

Conditioning

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

She also highlights the importance of disability sports as an avenue to empower disabled persons and quality physical activity experiences. Kirk shared insights on the distinct challenges that many disabled individuals face in physical activity, describing how systemic ableism and exclusionary practices often prevent participation.

Physical Activity

Stanford Childrens

MAY 14, 2025

Hes back playing sports. For Dr. Moses, getting Mo back to school, his studies, and sports is gratifying. But Mo is feeling great and is as active, energetic, and gung-ho as ever. Hes learned what foods trigger flares (fast food is a clear culprit) and avoids them. And hes glad to be well enough to attend school.

Immune system

The Everlearner

MARCH 12, 2025

Dear PE colleagues, Teaching skill acquisition in A-level PE, AS PE and BTEC Sport at KS5 is a fantastic experience. Much of my career has been defined by KS5 classroom-based PE teaching and, I believe, I have taught close to every KS5 course and unit.

Teaching

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

Sport Education. The Sport Education model (SEM: Siedentop, 1995) defines the content of physical education as representation of authentic sport experiences. A season of sport. Sport, Dance, Outdoor Pursuits, Active Recreation) areas in achieving the "physically educated" goal of the curriculum framework.

Physical Education

Magnus Health

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Even more, a report from the British Journal of Sports Medicine shows that suicide rates for student athletes have doubled within the last twenty years. Data from the CDC shows a 36 percent increase in suicides between 2020 and 2022. For children ages 10 14, suicide is now the second leading cause of death.

Health

The Everlearner

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This post is written for PE teachers or those teaching or coaching young people in an educational setting.

PE

Stanford Childrens

MARCH 3, 2025

Although 40 hours per week may sound like a lot, kids often use earbuds or headphones -in school for doing independent work -at home for watching videos or playing video games -at home or at athletic venues while playing sports or exercising -even in bed, while they sleep This adds up quickly!

Academics

Gopher Sport

JUNE 27, 2025

About Coach Jose: From Player to Teacher Coach Jose loved sports so much that it helped him finish college at the University of the Philippines. He says sports made him a better person. He wants them to enjoy sports and exercise and to remember how great it felt to move their bodies. That’s why he became a PE teacher.

PE Teacher

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I’ve also coached various sports, including running club, soccer, basketball, softball, volleyball and flag football. Professional background highlights: In May of 2007, I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse with a Bachelor of Science degree in School Health Education and Exercise Sport Science.

Education