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5 Simple Ways Principals Can Prioritize Health and Wellness This School Year

SHAPE America

And, despite clear research demonstrating the positive impacts of health and wellness on academic achievement , schools may be tempted to put critically important physical activity programs on the back burner. It creates a sense of belongingness and camaraderie that is difficult to achieve when done in smaller groups. Don’t do it!

Wellness 411
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The Relentless School Nurse: New Jersey School Nurses – Make the Impossible, Possible!

Relentless School Nurse

We brought back our Friday night of celebration and learning and danced the evening away. This emphasis on positivity, alongside addressing concerns, sharing compliments, and highlighting achievements, is proving to be a more compassionate and constructive way of engaging with our school nurse community and nurturing leaders.

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The Educator Conference on Human Connection #ECHC2023

Slow Chat PE

Our hearts were open and vulnerability was achieved. Reggie had us dancing salsa, doing the gritty, and making up line dances. Every person danced! We danced through a tornado!! You feel closer to the people you went with. You shared in something special and you all knew it. Reggie shows up and gets started.

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Remission Achieved Quickly for Girl With Complex Crohn’s Disease

Stanford Childrens

Stanford Medicine Childrens Health provides the latest expert, research-driven care to children with bowel disease Abigail (Abby) is a high-energy 8-year-old from Visalia, California, who loves to bake sweets, create art, dance around the living room, and do gymnastics in the yard. The center achieves 85% remission for its IBD patients.

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Jump Rope Skills(Intermediate 3-5)

Open Phys Ed

Jumps and lands in the vertical plane using a mature pattern (3); Combines jumping and landing patterns with locomotors and manipulative skills in dance, gymnastics and small-sided practice tasks/games environments (5). Demonstrates the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.

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ISBE PE Standards & Curriculum Alignment

PLT4M

STATE GOAL 20: Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness based upon continual self-assessment. Schools introduce and teach units like general fitness , weightlifting , yoga , dance, bootcamp , and other physical fitness units with PLT4M to address the 6 ISBE PE standards.

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Physical Education Electives

PLT4M

Click Here 2) Lifetime Fitness Elective Designed to expose students to many “lifetime fitness” options available like yoga, dance, pilates, dance, and more. Nicole says that the Lifetime Fitness classes have been a game-changer for students at De Pere, “Many students start the semester unsure, even nervous, of what they can achieve.