SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The “fastest game on two feet” … baggataway … the creator’s game. No matter how you refer to it, lacrosse is a great game to teach your students in physical education class! SHAPE America and USA Lacrosse recently collaborated on an updated, comprehensive physical education lacrosse curriculum. This “Lacrosse in Schools” curriculum will serve as a great resource for K-12 health and physical education teachers, whether you are: Brand new to the game and looking to add a new activity to your PE cl

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I have come to the conclusion that our country is filled with road rage. The anger and frustration displayed in cars has come out from behind the wheel into the streets, schools, and other public spaces. I began to notice it systemically when COVID reared its ugly head almost three long years ago. Those would be dog years, so more like 21 human years ago.

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Reinventing the Game

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It has been many months of not visiting my personal blogging habit as a way to delve more comprehensively into a job that can very easily take on an event or activity management role. There has been more than enough lamenting here on our seemingly ‘babysitter’ job for ‘fresh air’ in between the more important business of academic, examinable subjects.

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Keeping Kids in Motion

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This week’s game of the week is a Thanksgiving game called The Great Turkey Escape. The Great Turkey Escape is set on a turkey farm just days from Thanksgiving. It’s business as usually until the farmers hear a raucous coming from the barn. As.

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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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PE Scholar

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ever wondered if there is a better way to classify sport and physical activity to meet the needs of more individuals in PE?

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Drowning in the Shallow

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Mary Kennedy’s (2016) offers a conceptualisation of teaching that is through the lens of persistent challenges.

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register. . Twitter, while undergoing some unfortunate gyrations with its new owner, is still a space where I believe you can find like-minded people who care deeply about the health and wellbeing of children, youth, and school communities. I consider social media part of my school nursing practice, a place for education, advocacy, and interprofessional collaborations.

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The Sporting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

How to use exercise to build a happy, healthy gut We are constantly told that to improve our endurance we need to: lift more weight, work out more or have a healthy diet. However, what if it goes beyond all of this. What if, to improve our endurance, we also need a happy gut? Gut microbiota and exercise are interconnected, according to recent studies.

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Keeping Kids in Motion

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting a holiday game of the week. Don’t miss out! Be sure to subscribe for notifications. This week’s game is called, HOLIDAY CAROLING TAG. Scrooge, Grinch, and Jack Frost are once again feeling grumpy this holiday season.

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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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PE Scholar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Luke Jones shares his experience of a relentless pursuit to secure his first pe teacher job and how he got his first teaching post.

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Physical Education Update

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In the early mornings, my clock radio kicks off the day with “Radio Romania” as part of the Canadian Broadcast Company’s morning programming (depending on how long I stay in bed, I can also hear English broadcasts from South Korea, Australia and Poland). Not long ago, while rubbing the sleep from my eyes and nudging the dog off the bed, I overheard the Romanian announcers discussing the state of physical education and youth fitness in their country.

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Active Schools Us

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

By: Collin A. Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Sport Pedagogy. University of Birmingham Dubai. Walt Whitman’s well-known 1865 poem “O Captain! My Captain!” about an intrepid sea captain’s death at the end of a victorious voyage is a metaphorical tribute to Abraham Lincoln. In 1989, the movie “Dead Poets Society” capitalized on the poem’s title and themes to personify the inspirational attribute of undaunted leadership through the character of Mr.

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. A group of school nurses has quietly gathered every Sunday evening from 7 – 8 pm for more than two years in support of each other. The numbers fluctuate but usually hover around 15. For an hour most Sunday nights, we come together to provide peer support. The conversations focused on the stressors related to COVID and the impact on our health and well-being as we scrambled to keep up with the ever-changing public health emergency.

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RC Families

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

After working with parents for many years, I’ve observed that one of the pitfalls parents fall into is over-parenting. Call it helicopter parenting, lawnmower parenting, or even over-involved–the bottom line is that those parents feel a need to step in and maintain some sort of control. Not me! You may say. But let’s take a. Read More.

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The Sporting

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The best US sports writers ever! Well before TV and radio , if you wanted to take in a game you had to go in person. If that wasn’t a possibility, your only other option was to ask a friend or read about a game in print. So you had to rely on a journalist who is essentially a storyteller to find out what happened. That, after all, is what the best journalists do.

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PE Scholar

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The overall number of students selecting GCSE PE has also declined year on year since 2016.

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Physical Education Update

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

One thing about physical educators is that they realize the value of making lessons fun. They also realize that an active child is a child better able to learn. This often applies for those physical educators who teach academic subjects. A great example is Marilyn Rodgers of Hernando High school in Desoto Mississipi, an experienced physical educator whose teaching skills were considered too valuable to be wasted on “gym.” Instead she was placed in a history classroom where she remain

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Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Recently, the NFL changed a key element of its concussion policy after one of its players returned to play too early and reignited the head injury conversation across the country. A concussion is defined as a traumatic brain injury caused by a blow to the head or jolt to the body that results in immediate and temporary neurological symptoms. It can cause difficulty with focus, balance, sleep, and more, which is why as fall sports are underway, it’s important for parents to recognize the signs an

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Twitter has been my go-to social media platform for many years. The doors that have opened for me thanks to relationships built through Twitter have taken me from my health office to the halls of Congress, to co-authored Op-Eds in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, to Current Trauma Reports, Harvard Law, and a lecture hall at University of Pennsylvania Nursing School where I spoke at the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Town Hall.

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The Everlearner

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In this week’s blog, I am delighted to announce the official release of a brand-new resource. This resource, the first of thousands of physical resources I will be developing in the coming months and years, is aimed at centres teaching AQA GCSE PE 1-9. This resource is utterly free to all and acts as the celebration of The Changing Rooms blog becoming one year old on this very day.

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The Sporting

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A guide to the wonderful world of all 64 Italian football stadiums! One would only expect that the land that built the Colosseum as a symbol of entertainment would also have great stadiums and be super passionate about modern-day sports such as football. And they would be absolutely correct! The worldwide passion for football is shared by both the Italian players and their fierce supporters.

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PE Scholar

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How We Learn To Move by Rob Gray reviewed and summarised - a must read on skill acquisition and ecological dynamics.

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Physical Education Update

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This is the tale of an invention rendered ineffective because of corporate greed. Strictly speaking, it’s not a physical education issue, but it does affect any teacher who packs a lunch for school or team trips. What invention am I talking about? Plastic food storage containers. I’m the king of leftovers. I eat them for most lunches. And when I pack for team trips, I usually pack my travel munchies in a plastic storage container so they don’t get scrunched.

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Open Phys Ed

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Welcome to Gratitude Games This updated module includes your favorite Turkey Trot and Gratitude Games with some new favorites just added. Add some active joy to the month of November and use the gratitude-focused debrief questions to get your students thinking about the true meaning of the season. Plus, combine the academic language cards and Turkey Trot Crew Cards to create a festive, fun and meaningful bulletin board or word wall.

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

. What an honor to be invited to speak before the closing general session of the 2022 New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) Convention. My appreciation to Dr. Christine Miles, NJEA Director of Professional Development & Instructional Issues for inviting me to share my family’s story of gun violence over several generations. Here is a transcript of my message: Before I share my story, I want you to stop for a moment and ask you to think of a time when something in your life happened

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Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Jenny Tice, 34, makes sure to live each day to its fullest. She is a Bay Area native, works in finance in San Francisco, lives an active lifestyle, and volunteers. However, these milestones wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Carlos Esquivel, MD , chief of the Division of Transplantation at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. He saved her life, twice.

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The Sporting

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The 5 Greatest ever Belgian Footballers While often underappreciated due to a lack of major international honours, Belgium is still widely renowned for the amount of talent it produces on a regular basis. But who are Belgium’s greatest players? The Belgians tend to perform well in major tournaments despite a dearth of silverware; and these performances stretch across different eras, illustrating a collective mentality gotten through patriotism and pride rather than solely individual quality.

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Keeping Kids in Motion

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

My First-Grade classes were in need of a couple of team-building lessons. I needed a way to reinforce working together, no matter who the partner was, taking turns, and communicating in a kind manner. At the same time, we were in the midst of.

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Physical Education Update

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

One of the primary goals of any physical education program is the development of our students’ ability to maintain an active lifestyle throughout their lives. I’m the beneficiary of my own school experience in PE and sport. I still play a weekly game of old-man’s basketball – in my old high school gym with some of my old high school schoolmates – in a ritual that has been part of that school since the mid-1960’s.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As coaches, we all want to win. We implore our athletes to spend the off-season training to become bigger, faster, stronger. But, the moment practice begins, our focus shifts and training sessions become an afterthought. This is dangerous. Let’s take a look at in season strength training and break down the why, what, and how! While in-season, your athletes will adapt to the rigors of practices and games, often reaching peak physical conditioning for that sport.

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

I am not sure where I would be today without the information, community, support, and collaborations I have experienced with the team at PACEs Connection (formerly ACEs Connection). Right now this amazing organization is in need of support. I wrote a blog post about what PACEs Connection has meant to me over the years. I am honored that they used my comments to create a #GivingTuesday2022 plea for support.

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PE Scholar

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For those looking to implement the PE Concept Curriculum, this lesson plan template can be a useful tool to plan your lessons.

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