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Creating an Effective Health and Wellness Club at School

SHAPE America

Activities during the first half included short lessons on the recommended guidelines, goal-setting exercises, discussions on how to incorporate more physical activity into daily routines, group competitions on the guidelines, and baseline and follow-up assessments.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Beyond the Ballot: Talking to Kids About Loss and Uncertainty After an Election

Relentless School Nurse

For older children, using a sports metaphor of winning and losing might help them understand. Among the topics are: self-assessment, compassion for self and others, grieving the loss of patients & colleagues and witnessing trauma in the work place. When you need inspiration, read it as many times as you like.

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Teaching Lacrosse in Physical Education Using the New USA Lacrosse Curriculum

SHAPE America

This expansion helps introduce the sport at younger ages (which mirrors the growth of the sport across the country) and helps reinforce many of the transferable skills that students are learning at those grade levels — but in a new way, with a new activity. In addition, you will see various assessments that align with those outcomes.

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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

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. They perform better on standardized and functional assessments. And all of these numbers fall under the recommended minimum of 10,000 steps per day.

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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker

It's when teachers are educationally purposeful and strengths-based in their planning, teaching, and assessment that physical education achieves the three dimensions of education in, through, and about movement.

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Assessing the Health and Wellbeing Area of Learning and Experience – Focus Group Opportunity

PE Scholar

Sport Wales is looking to find out more about the how PE teachers are assessing the HWB AoLE, and what could be put in place to help teachers across Wales.

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What is TRIMP? How Sports Teams Use It to Optimize Training

First Beat

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.

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