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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

SHAPE America

I also coach golf and am an assistant athletic director at our school, but I have always thought of myself as a teacher first. In March 2024, I was lucky enough to be named the 2024 SHAPE America National High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year! I don’t teach in a private school. Let me introduce myself.

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Leveraging Physical Activity in Schools to Address Pandemic-Related Health Disparities

Active Schools Us

The CovEx study focused on child well-being, including physical health, mental health, and emotional health, as well as stress and anxiety indicators. Many parents also reported that their well-being had been impacted by emotional distress, difficulty managing emotions, and difficulty sleeping.

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Special Post: Choosing the Right Programme

Informed Practitioner in Sport

Schools are another crucial environment for inspiring and nurturing sporting talent, not least as they are often the setting where kids are first exposed to the sports that they subsequently choose to pursue. Unethical commercial programmes and opportunistic coaches and trainers are all too ready to take advantage of this misapprehension.