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Reflecting on 2021 and Continuing the Race for Youth Lives

Teen Health Mississippi

For many families in Mississippi, 2021 brought heartaches and a range of physical and emotional challenges. Rural youth are struggling without easy access to resources on health and healthcare, including information on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, and youth-friendly healthcare. Our youth are in a race for their lives. And 2021 has made it crystal clear that Mississippi youth need our support.

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Striking Balloons With Implements – A PE Lesson

The PE Specialist

What’s up Phys Ed Fam! I’m super excited to share this post with you, it’s been in the works for a while. Below you’ll find an awesome lesson example for teaching your younger students an introduction to striking with implements using balloons. I normally teach this lesson with K-2nd students, but you can always try […].

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Pocket Radar Smart Coach/Ball Coach

Better Coaching

Remember when you were a young baseball player and you wanted to know how hard someone was throwing? But no one you knew had a radar gun. So, you just estimated how fast that heater was coming in. Well, now you can have one in your pocket. I've used this radar with my 10U teams to check their exit velocity. I've also used it with my high school team for the same reason, and to check the speed of the pitchers.

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Playing Forward

Player Development Project

PDP Video Session Plans are adaptable sessions designed by academy coach, Dave Wright. All sessions show key focus points, set up, and progressions so you can use them in your next practice. The post Playing Forward appeared first on Player Development Project.

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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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REPOST – Meaningful Experiences in PE: Guiding Principles from @ImSporticus

PE 4 Learning

Meaningful Experiences in PE: Guiding Principles – Guiding Principles of Meaningful PE Movement has the potential to enrich human existence and Physical Education can be a site that contributes to this by creating meaningful experiences of movement. Meaningful experiences are those that hold ‘personal significance’ to the learner. PE Teachers who subscribe to the creation of […].

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SKLZ Lightning Bolt Baseball Pitching Machine

Better Coaching

How about a simple, easily portable pitching machine that will help young players learn to hit a smaller, moving ball - and it's well under $100! A constant challenge for coaches, especially youth coaches, is how can they get their players to hit a moving ball, especially without the coach wearing his arm out. This is a device I've used for a few years and it's still working great.

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Educational Gymnastics

Open Phys Ed

Created by: Nichole Wilder. Special Contributions: Andrea Hart. Design: Jennifer Truong & Aaron Hart. This module includes activities that are designed to develop movement concepts and body control. Educational gymnastics is not the same type of gymnastics seen on TV during the Olympics. It focuses on teaching introductory skills and concepts in a safe way related to traveling, balancing, rolling, and the transfer of weight.

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Anger & Parenting: Should they co-exist?

RC Families

Anger and parenting often go hand in hand. When the kids push your buttons, it’s easy to get angry, and then parent out of that anger. Although this is a natural reaction, it is not what is best for your child. Parenting out of your anger may result in you punishing your child, instead of. Read More.

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2022 Condition of Education in the Commonwealth

Rennie Center

2022 Condition of Education in the Commonwealth. January 2022. catherine-rauseo. Thu, 02/10/2022 - 17:06. Over the past two years, the expectations placed on teachers have grown exponentially. As students face the instability and trauma of life in a pandemic, educators have become even more critical in supporting and facilitating students’ mental health and social-emotional development, as well as their academic success.

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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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February NCPEID Collaborative: APE Fundraising & Grant Funding

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

Listen in on the February NCPEID collaborative featuring guest speakers Dr. Rebecca Lytle and Danielle Musser! Dr. Lytle, professor and APE program coordinator at California State University at Chico discusses the key factors to writing successful grant applications and specifically the OSEP grant (Office of Special Education Programs). She has had an OSEP personal preparation grant for over 15 years and is currently finishing up her third 5 year grant.

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Children's Mental Health week

Delamere Academy

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