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

SHAPE America

If we pause to take a panoramic view of our current landscape, we are reminded that our country has an obesity epidemic, rise in hypokinetic diseases, as well as mental health concerns. Active learning strategies lead to less boredom and more intrinsic motivation to learn. Over time, student health and well-being will develop as well.

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What Resiliency Means as a Marine

SHAPE America

I’ve learned to protect my mental well-being by implementing self-care practices that align with my values. These collective benefits play a significant role in shaping youth and young adults into resilient, well-rounded members of society. RESILIENT ADVICE Setbacks and challenges are natural. Find out more about Promoted Content.

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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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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. Bored students don’t learn as well. You betcha!

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

Reinventing the Game

Recent encounters very well meaning leaders in the profession suggest that the younger the age group, the more we need to just get about being efficient in daily school life and perhaps not worry too much regards ‘pedagogy’ and such. To what extent does motivation comes in when we start with precision?

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The ACL Comeback: Post-Surgery Goals and Motivation

The Sporting

In this article, I’m discussing my story- and how I’ve come to plan out my ACL comeback post-surgery goals and motivation. I didn’t get the best coach to help me work on the right things, so I put in lots of work and became an excellent playground baller, but not a professional player. Start the clock and wish me well!