SHAPE America
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
In a school era focused on technology and standardized tests, might the key to some students’ success lie not in more academic work on a device, but in the opportunity to move their bodies outdoors? In this article, I share how daily outdoor physical education can be used as an academic and behavioral intervention.
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.,
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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. 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
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Exercise and academics are often seen as two completely separate things in education. But the relationship between physical activity and academic performance could not be more intertwined. Therefore, schools must embrace the connection between physical activity and academic performance for students to reach their highest potential.
SHAPE America
OCTOBER 10, 2023
It’s simply not enough movement, especially for kids who are less involved in extracurricular sports. As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine. Students who have the opportunity for regularly scheduled physical activity and more classroom movement benefit academically, physically, and socially.
SHAPE America
DECEMBER 5, 2023
It is also inspiring to know that there is a global movement to support the development of quality physical education, physical activity, and sport for all human beings, as proposed by UNESCO’s International Charter of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport.
SHAPE America
MAY 31, 2022
negotiating facilities use agreements, requesting funds from higher administration for women’s athletics, negotiating with faculty about academic vs. coaching duties). million, while women’s athletics received only a few thousand dollars from the Intramural Sports Club budget. To support travel, lodging, etc., Volunteer Coaches.
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