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

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Adding more movement — through physical education, recess and active classrooms — is essential for beating the almost-winter blues. Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. Middle and high school students take even fewer steps during a typical school day.

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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

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The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives.

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Using the City as Your Physical Education Classroom

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Coach Clark always comes with a twist. Daequan eagerly asks, “Coach, when’s our next trip?” My focus in physical education centers on equity and inclusion in fitness, particularly access to fitness options in underserved communities of color. and “What does fitness look like in your neighborhood?”

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How to ‘Spring’ Into Physical Activity During National PE & Sport Week

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Make new friends through movement. Imagine the fun and excitement you will have playing five different games in five different days, trying to become the ultimate fitness winner. Show off your creativity side: Revise rules from old games and change them to new and different rules to fit the new game. Spoiler alert!

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Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role?

Reinventing the Game

Also recently, the strangle hold of fitness testing looms large in my professional life. Following the fitness theme here, I happen to visit a National uniform-group fitness testing centre where we observed their latest technology in helping test recruits using X-Box technology. Or is it not? This after 3 decades of teaching!

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How I Received Grants for My Physical Education Classes

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It came with a top-notch Bluetooth speaker, subscription to the service, and the Billie Jean King Eye Coach (think batting tee for tennis). To maximize time on task, some students worked with the bikes while others worked on fitness games that didn’t require a lot of space or set up. I was so ecstatic that we got to go to the U.S.

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More Than Just a Headcount: Using Attendance for a Greater Purpose

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Consistency is a compounding effect; everyone in the fitness, training, coaching industry knows that, but parents, admin, students don’t always grasp that. Eventually it would be nice to showcase which components lead to the best improvement of movement capabilities. Maybe even time of day drastically affects attendance!

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