Thu.Jun 06, 2024

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Leading Your Team: 3 Keys to Success

SHAPE America

Leadership is a balance of art and science; whether in a boat on the water, serving in the military, or learning in a classroom, success hinges on remaining calm as you navigate the storm of outside influences, understanding the individuals you lead and inspiring the desire to “own your role.” Drawing from 12 years of experience as a coxswain in the sport of rowing and eight years as an officer in the Marine Corps, the parallels between these seemingly disparate domains are pretty apparent.

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Teaching Students to Overcome Adversity

Active Schools Us

Author: Joe McCarthy My goal is for students to learn how to overcome obstacles, whether at school, at home, with friends, or in sports. I want to equip students with the tools and knowledge to prepare them to make positive choices. I want students to feel that they can overcome anything! Finding Strength in Challenges Research has shown that people who have faced significant adversity are often more successful.

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Practicum in Physical Education Teacher Education: An Educational Partnership?

PE Scholar

Teacher educators express and understand their educational partnership and mutual contribution to the practicum in PETE.

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Every Kid Sports Announces Eleana Fanaika as New Executive Director

Every Kids Sports

BEND, OR – June 6, 2024 – Every Kid Sports, a national nonprofit that empowers children in income-restricted families to play sports, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Eleana Fanaika as its new Executive Director. Ms. Fanaika brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this role, having served in multiple leadership capacities for the organization during a career dedicated to creating access to sports for children across America.

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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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How to engage more of your community in fitness

My Zone

You don’t need to have a huge fitness event to have a huge impact within your community. With an achievable goal for almost everyone, Myzone record holding gym, Jones Fitness, has cemented its place as a health partner for members and anyone that wants to move.

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Don’t Sleep on These Tips: Re-Set Your Sleep Routine

Designs for Health

Despite being the only mammals that purposefully delay sleep, human adults need 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night. Getting the recommended amount of sleep each night is important for every major body system, including the nervous, cardiovascular, immune, endocrine, digestive, and respiratory systems. Sleep is so fundamental to normal human physiology that if an individual is kept awake for 17 hours or more , their motor performance can be impaired as much as if they had a blood alcohol level of 0