Mon.Sep 25, 2023

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Toilet Tag – A Hilarious and Active Tag Game for Elementary PE Classes

Elementary P.E. Games

Looking for a new and exciting tag game to engage your elementary school students in PE class? Look no further than “Toilet Tag”! This game not only provides a fun and energetic experience but also helps develop important motor skills, endurance, agility, spatial awareness, and teamwork. With no equipment required, it’s easy to set up and play within your designated playing area.

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Five Engaging Culture-Building Activities

Gopher Sport

Physical Education is a great place to get students moving, cooperating, and building communication skills. In this blog, we’ll explore 5 easy-to-learn activities that are great for building relationships and tuning the classroom culture. Exercises like ‘Jump the Spinner,’ where students learn while having fun with fitness, and ‘The Magic Number Team Activity,’ are a great way to foster inclusivity.

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Classroom Technology Rules For Physical Education

PLT4M

As technology becomes more prevalent in the classroom, physical education teachers must create classroom technology rules to ensure students use technology appropriately and safely. These rules can be tailored to the specific needs of each physical education class and school, but some general guidelines can help teachers create effective and beneficial classroom technology rules.

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Stanford Children’s Uses Advanced Neonatology Care and a Minimally Invasive Procedure to Save a Preemie

Stanford Childrens

Meet the smallest baby to have been treated by our Preterm PDA Closure Program team Twenty-one-month-old Theia Dudorova toddles around her house, proud that she’s just discovered how to walk. She’s got eight teeth, with one more on the way, and loves to show them off with constant giggles and smiles. Her mother, Anastasiia Tarasova, is only too happy to try to keep up with her.

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Reimagine the Role of PE to Reconnect With Your Students

Speaker: Jeremy Kellem, M.Ed. - Educational Strategist, Former Athlete, and CEO/Founder of W.I.N. (We Impact Now, LLC)

For many students, physical education is critical to becoming active and developing healthy routines. But how is this possible anymore with the repercussions of the pandemic? Years of COVID-19, social distancing, and virtual learning have all had a profound effect on students, which means educators need to adjust their classes accordingly. The good news is that P.E. can still play a vital role in helping students intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially.

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10 Traits of a Team Player

RC Families

Does your child understand what it means to be a team player? Do they see the rewards? The value? Do they understand that being a team player means you not only succeed yourself, but help others succeed as well? Coaches and parents talk about the importance of being a team player, but what really does.

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#026 Developing Coaches

Player Development Project

Reader,​​ When we talk about coach development, we generally think about formal coach education, qualifications, courses and licences. ​Without a doubt, the formal coach education process adds huge value, and even now I am still undertaking coaching courses to add value to my practice. It’s important to stay curious in coaching.​The other side of this is that formal coach education can be infrequent, there can be a disconnect between contacts on the course and support in between, and at times.

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Why Tech Leaders Should Care About Student Health Software

Magnus Health

Today’s schools rely on a wide range of software systems to operate. Your cafeteria uses a point-of-sale system for lunch payments; your academic division uses a student information system to manage grades and assignments. But what about your health office ? This department often gets overlooked when it comes to technology. It’s hard to believe, but many schools still rely on paper-based student health processes — both an ineffective and insecure practice!

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Tommy Smith: Thriving Under Pressure

Player Development Project

Tommy Smith has played in multiple continents, made hundreds of professional appearances, and earned 50 caps for the New Zealand national team. In this article, Smith, no stranger to the demands of the biggest stages, discusses the challenges of pressure, coping with expectation, and his experiences playing at the World Cup and Olympic Games. In This Article Coping with Pressure Playing professional football can carry a lot of pressure — from fans, coaches, and even players’ own personal standar

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NAPEC52: A Preview of the 52nd NAPEC Conference

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

In this episode of What's New in APE, special guest host Dr. Melissa Bittner (@ ) takes us backstage for the upcoming NAPEC conference to preview some of the upcoming keynote speakers and special sessions. Specifically, the NAPEC52 co-coordinators, Heidi Ambrosius (Moreno Valley Unified School District; Lecturer CSU San Bernardino) & Lemi Hayashi (Fremont Unified School District) are interviewed about the conference as a whole and putting the conference together.

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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker

Physical education is an important part of the development of the whole person: physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively. By providing education in movement competency, education on using movement to develop the ability to be self-regulated and motivated, and education through movement to develop ‘habits of mind’ for positive and constructive engagement with others, PE provides a basis for personal and community health and wellbeing.