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Creating an Effective Health and Wellness Club at School

SHAPE America

As a physical education teacher at Hebron High School in Carrollton, TX, I developed a Health and Wellness Club for our ninth-grade campus as an initiative to reduce obesity and related comorbidities that are associated with sedentary lifestyles and a lack of physical activity.

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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. The gym is not the only place where students can move, interact and learn by doing. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym!

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

Reinventing the Game

Also an important reality, the need for precision KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) like obesity direction, sports participation and fitness levels. Apprehensive because it is a very controversial thought at times, even though much progress is made in research and policy guide, in the last one to two decades at least.

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Want Smarter Kids with More Brain Cells? Give Them Daily Physical Education in School!

Physical Education Update

Not only has academic performance improved school-wide, so has behavior and childhood obesity levels. A Good Luck Message From A Caring Coach. As wide range of activities are introduced and traditional team sports are taught, but through small-sided games, with participation as the goal. Have a great year! Physical Education Update.

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The Urgency for Applying Individualized Instruction in Physical Education & Sports

Heartzones

There is no possibility for self-pacing and personalization when heart rate responses are unknown and no data is available in student records for teachers, administrators, coaches, and students to reference. If a teenager leaves their teenage years obese, 28 out of 29 will remain obese their entire lives.

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Adapted Physical Education – The Call For Inclusion

PLT4M

He has taught physical education at preschool, elementary, and high school levels and courses related to exercise science, coaching, health, and wellness at the university level. Secondary conditions occur as a result of a primary disability and can include pressure sores, pain, diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, and obesity.

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Heart Rate & Resistance Training Re-imagined For Physical Education & Sports

Heartzones

The ability to see the history of heart rate for all exercise, for all students, provides every physical educator and coach with the exercise science information to help guide their students, individually, in group settings. This helps prevent obesity and provide long-term benefits on various health outcomes.” (Lee,