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Why I Love High School Sports

Changing the Game Project

Two weeks ago, my son TJ’s (#9 above with his senior teammates) high school soccer career came to an end in a state playoff game, culminating a week of highs and lows for me, of beginnings and endings, of joy and pain. All of those things come together in high school sports and that’s why I love them.

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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

SHAPE America

We have access to bike trails near our school. We even built a mountain bike park on our school grounds for students to enjoy because we recognize how bikes can be used to help our students achieve success. How many physical activity minutes does your school have in a day? A before-school club is a good place to start.

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Teaching Lacrosse in Physical Education Using the New USA Lacrosse Curriculum

SHAPE America

The game is growing all over the country at the youth, high school, collegiate, and professional levels — and now is a great time to make it part of the physical education curriculum in your school district. Charlie Rizzuto Charlie Rizzuto is the 2022 SHAPE America National High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year.

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Why Bowling Deserves a Spot in Every PE Curriculum

Gopher Sport

Few sports give you a true, measurable way to achieve perfection, but in bowling, its real. Additionally, I have worked with the **NYC DOE Office of Wellness**, delivering hands-on training in a **high school hallway**, showing how bowling can be taught in non-traditional spaces with limited resources. The perfect game.

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Leading Your Team: 3 Keys to Success

SHAPE America

While I had much experience regarding sports in high school, I was not introduced to the sport of rowing, like many others, until I walked onto the women’s Division 1 rowing team at Navy. Through our partnership with SHAPE America, the Marine Corps is dedicated to creating change in the lives of coaches and athletes.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

School sport participation can be a conversation conundrum. 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. Wretman (2017) found participation in school sport had a significant standardised effect on academic achievement.

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2025 Student Health Trend Predictions

Magnus Health

Every school is looking at how they can support students in a more holistic way and well-being is at the heart of that conversation, says Ben Dunford, founder of behavior management and motivation platform ePraise. Previously, you would often think about student motivation in terms of achievement and behavior management.

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