February, 2021

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Prioritizing PE Post-Pandemic: An Interview with a PE Teacher

Active Schools Us

Danielle Branciforti has taught PE for 30 years. She has been at the Hebrew Academy for Special Children in Woodmere, NY for the last year and a half. . Active Schools: How has the pandemic changed PE for you and your students?? . Danielle: It’s been a disaster – trying to do PE remotely is such a disservice to the students, all of whom have some developmental, behavioral, or some physical limitations.

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What to teach and Why in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

Illustration from [link]. After about three years of formally putting personal thoughts to paper in order to expedite a more deliberate reflection habit within myself and hopefully growing it in the community, what are my outcomes? I must say that every one of my articles were written as a result of an observation, some experience, some reading and connecting it to what I think I need to do better as a Physical Education (PE) teacher.

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52 Weeks Later. Part I

AKA Sports

We are closing in on 52 weeks. 52 weeks from when the COVID bomb dropped and lockdown was the theme. We’re not out of this yet, but from here marching forward towards summer we’ll be more certain and far more fearless. If you’re a first timer to this Blog and want to cut to the chase, click here for 10 reasons to choose AKA this Summer. I’m here to hopefully boost your confidence in choosing AKA programs this spring, summer and fall but I’m also here to boost the faith in you (parents).

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Covid And Your Athlete: What You Need To Know

I Love to Watch You Play

Covid And Your Athlete: What You Need To Know Watch the Vodcast or Short on time, watch the Mash-Up The Ilovetowatchyouplay.com podcast with Dr. Sam Maniar tackles Covid and your athlete. Our guest, Dr. Mel Herbert from UCLA School of Medicine and founder of EM:Rap.org, Emergency Medicine: Reviews and Perspectives. Just some of the topics we cover with Dr.

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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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Small Sided Games as a sport coaching training and conditioning tool

Learning Through Sport

Small sided games (SSGs) have been part of the coaching lexicon for decades. During the 1960s and 1970s, there were several publications explaining how to use them, reasons for their use, and their teaching benefits, particularly in the sport of soccer/football (see e.g. Wade, 1967; Worthington, 1974) where they were used to teach attack, defence and transition principles of play.

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De tal madre, tal hija: encontrar la alegría en la educación física entre generaciones

Active Schools Us

¿Cómo va ese dicho: la familia que camina 50 millas juntos en Yellowstone, es una triunfadora en la educación física? Bien, puede que no sea un dicho real, pero es una realidad para Grace Federico, madre de dos hijos de Pueblo, Colorado, y su familia. El amor de Grace por la actividad física se lo transmitió su padre, y es algo que ella y su esposo, a su vez, transmitieron a sus hijos, un hijo de 17 años y una hija de 11 años.

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How to coach someone to improve their balance

Sports Coaching FAQ

Balance is a fundamental skill that plays a vital role in a variety of physical activities and sports. Often overlooked as a natural ability, this cornerstone of effective performance can be developed like any other skill, and therefore intentional practice, in particular with kids at an early age, can greatly enhance performance and achievement in sport and exercise and can also provide benefits for general health.

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Life doesn’t take a break. Neither should physical activities

Physed n Health

Life doesn’t take a break. Neither should physical. activities. Keep encouraging your students. How do you keep your students active? The post Life doesn’t take a break. Neither should physical activities first appeared on K12 Physical Education and Health Assessment.

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It’s Lonely at the Top: Enlisting Support for the Leader

Informed Practitioner in Sport

When individuals ascend to the top of the coaching tree or high performance structure they are faced with a host of new challenges that are beyond and often quite different to anything they have encountered in their professional career previously. At the time of being appointed into head coach, performance director, athletic director or general manager positions it is very rare that the individual is fully equipped for the range and scope of the challenges they will face.

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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.

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How to control your emotions in sports: Help yourself and your players stay clear-headed

Player Development Project

PDP Co-Founder Dave Wright & Positive Psychology expert Lara Mossman discussing how to control emotions in sports. We can’t expect youth soccer players to show great emotional control all of the time. It’s sometimes easy to forget, but they’re not mini-adults — they don’t have the same capacity to control their emotions as we do, and we shouldn’t expect them to.

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5 Things to Keep Telling Yourself While You Watch Your Child Play Sports

RC Families

My kids are no longer playing youth sports. But two of them are coaching it, as well as my husband. Our youngest played her last college volleyball game over 7 years ago, so I’ve had some time to recover from being a competitive sports mom–or so I thought. While attending my son-in-law’s basketball games this. Read More.

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Like Mother, Like Daughter: Finding the Joy in PE Across Generations

Active Schools Us

( Leer en español. ). How does that saying go – the family who hikes 50 miles in Yellowstone together champions PE together? Ok, so that might not be a real adage, but it’s reality for Grace Federico, a mom of two from Pueblo, Colorado, and her family. Grace’s love of being active was passed down from her own father, and it’s something that she and her husband have, in turn, passed on to their own kids, a 17-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter.

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The School Day Starts When You Want

Sport World School

A school that significantly boosts the chances of your child to become a better athlete. Explore all the benefits of online schooling. The post The School Day Starts When You Want appeared first on Sport World School.

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What Makes A Great Youth Sports Parent?

B.E.S.T. Youth Sports Blog

What Makes A Great Youth Sports Parent? First off, let me start by saying, I am always being asked, “How do you do it?” “How do you have such patience with the kids?” “How do you put up with family watching the game all the crazy moms and dads out there?” “How do you care all the time and why do you try to make everyone happy in your BEST Youth Sports program?

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How to get kids to listen in a sports coaching session

Sports Coaching FAQ

A challenge faced by novice and experienced sports coaches alike is obtaining and retaining the attention of the kids being coached. If a coach can get an athlete’s attention effectively then the information being communicated is more likely to be understood, retained, and acted upon and the player is more likely to progress. This article will examine strategies to encourage kids to listen more in sessions.

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MOJO – A Game-Changer For Youth Sports

I Love to Watch You Play

What do Russell Wilson, Julie Foudy, Brandi Chastain, & Ben Sherwood, the former co-chairman of Disney/ABC, have in common? They are all parents of athletes who dream of making youth sports fun again. One athlete, one family, one team at a time. A fairly sizeable goal, but these prominent athletes, along with CEO Sherwood and CPO Reed Shaffner, have a pretty good idea of where to start, leveling the playing field with just a few simple swipes.

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How to Negotiate with Your Child

RC Families

Are you are quick to protest, “No Way! I’m in charge!” and insist that you will never negotiate with your child because you are, after all, the parent? Before you dismiss the idea of negotiating with your child, ask yourself this: Does it seem like every time you say “No,” it turns into an argument. Read More.

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Grand Canyon 2021

AKA Sports

As the MVP poured it out in his post game presser, I too felt gutted. All of Packer nation felt gutted. What an incredible run of a season, with the highest hopes and the best chances since 2011, all to be buried by a GOAT. It all just, ended. Football was over for the year and as Vikings and all fellow football fanatics know the feeling of despair in sport, it takes a solid period of time and/or an event to move onto the next.

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Purposeful Planning: Unit Plans Part 1

TinCan Physed

Hello all! Today I will be starting off a new series of posts, how I plan with purpose and meaning behind my lessons and learning experiences with students. I think that a good place to start is to take a look at how I approach my units and design the learning experience surrounding my students. Are you ready? Let’s go! “We are what we repeatedly do.

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Stay Away From Competition!

B.E.S.T. Youth Sports Blog

Stay Away From Competition! This is what many headlines state when I searched for Tot Sport topics for my next blog. So, I decided to chime in on this topic and do some research on “What age is appropriate for kids to begin Competitive Youth Sports (Teams)”. Let me quote an article in Parenting Magazine…. “Most toddler sports “teams” are just kiddie classes with jerseys, and that’s a good thing.

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Should I have a theme for my sessions?

Player Development Project

The question this week comes from Gav through the PDP Members Slack Community: Gav asks, “Should I have a theme for my sessions?” Your Turn: Ask PDP Anything Do you have a coaching question that we might be able to help with? We would love to hear from you! Here’s what you can do: 1. Tweet your questions to us @playerdp, or contact us on our Facebook page.2.

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5 steps to successfully coach athletes one-on-one

Sports Coaching FAQ

Sports coaching on a one-on-one basis can provide a fantastic opportunity to provide targeted advice and guidance to an athlete or player to support their development however, it can also bring with it drawbacks, particularly if the sport being coached one to one is a team sport. This article will provide ideas and guidance on how to maximise the effectiveness of one-to-one sports coaching sessions.

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If You Do These 3 Things, You Can Parent with Confidence

RC Families

Being a parent is complicated. It is hard work. There are no one-size-fits-all answers because every family dynamic is different, every child is unique and every home faces its own special challenges. But at the same time, there are over-riding principles that can apply to every household, whether you are a single parent, a blended. Read More.

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The Future for Future Professionals!

Shape PA

SHAPE PA is excited to announce a new committee designed to meet the needs of our future professional members! The Future Professionals Advisory Committee (FPAC) is composed of a student representative from five Pennsylvania universities with Health and Physical Education teacher preparation programs; East Stroudsburg University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven University, Slippery Rock University, and West Chester University.

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Purposeful Planning: Unit Plans Part 1

TinCan Physed

Hello all! Today I will be starting off a new series of posts, how I plan with purpose and meaning behind my lessons and learning experiences with students. I think that a good place to start is to take a look at how I approach my units and design the learning experience surrounding my students. Are you ready? Let’s go! “We are what we repeatedly do.

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“Mamá, no puedo estar sentada aquí por más tiempo”. Cómo la educación física cambió el año de mi hija y mi perspectiva

Active Schools Us

por Kelly Thew. Roswell, GA. Un motivador maestro de educación física y una escuela que invierte en la educación física, pueden marcar la diferencia. Como madre de un niño de primer grado que ha estado asistiendo a la escuela de forma virtual, prácticamente desde marzo del 2020 y un niño de 4 años que participa en algunas de las lecciones, hasta el año pasado fui ingenua en cuanto a lo importante que es la educación física para la capacidad de aprendizaje de un niño.

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“Mama, I can’t sit here any longer.” How PE Changed My Daughter’s Year – and My Perspective

Active Schools Us

by Kelly Thew. Roswell, GA. ( Leer en español.). An encouraging PE teacher and a school that invests in PE can make all the difference. As the parent of a first grader who has been going to school virtually since March 2020 and a 4-year-old who tags along for some of the lessons, I was naïve to how critical PE is to a child’s ability to learn until this past year.

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