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

SHAPE America

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. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.

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Thoughts on youth sport rentention, coaching and coach development

Learning Through Sport

Coaches are prominent in youth sport retention. To prevent youth player attrition coaches require specific knowledge about how to coach for enhanced player experience. Consequently, a coach that enhances player experience is more likely to foster with their players a longer term appreciation of involvement in sport.

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The Art of Effective Coach Communication

Player Development Project

In this Masterclass Webinar replay, we host Psychologist and Motivational Interviewing Pioneer, Prof. Stephen is a world leader in psychology and recently co-authored the book, Coaching Athletes to be Their Best: Motivational Interviewing in Sport. Stephen Rollnick. We dive into a number of topics including: This.

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NBA Coach is a Class Act…So Are You!

Physical Education Update

Before you head off for your summer holidays, I thought I’d leave you with a demonstration of character by an All-Star professional basketball player and coach. But he’s only demonstrating the same ethics and motivations that drive most of our scholastic PE teachers and coaches.

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What Resiliency Means as a Marine

SHAPE America

He coaches and mentors unit commanders, utilizing a program that demands their units be mentally and physically ready for combat. Additional Resources [Webinar] Encouraging Resiliency: Motivating Students to Overcome Difficulties and Persevere This post is promoted content by the United States Marine Corps.

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

SHAPE America

Active learning strategies lead to less boredom and more intrinsic motivation to learn. MOVEMENT LEADS TO HAPPIER AND MORE PRODUCTIVE STUDENTS When students are active, they are more likely to be engaged. Ideally, we want students to love learning.

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Do Teachers Deserve All Their Holiday Time?

Physical Education Update

Then stay after hours to coach or supervise extracurriculars. The alternative is a generation of burned out teachers – teachers who don’t have the energy to entertain, to motivate, to intrigue, to capture the attention of students. Teachers must be “on” for an entire school day. You betcha!

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