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5 Tips for Moving Your Career Forward as a Health and Physical Education Teacher

SHAPE America

When I meet higher ed colleagues from other PETE programs at conferences and other events, our conversations often turn to issues we are facing with our students. What I’ve learned from these conversations is that even though our PETE programs may be different, our students are almost all struggling with the same issue — their professional transition from students to teachers.

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The Relentless School Nurse: When the Impact of Gun Violence is Personal and Professional

Relentless School Nurse

I want to extend a deep appreciation to the team at BulletPoints for inviting me to participate in their upcoming webinar about the impact of firearm violence on student health. To learn more about this topic, register for the BulletPoints webinar episode on “The Impact of Firearm Violence and Threats on Student Health“. T uesday, August 16th, 3:00 pm EDT. .

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The Youth of Today - Europe's young football talent - England's best young players - 2022 UPDATE

The Sporting

Football Stories: The Youth of today. A series on Europe’s best up-and-coming talent. Europe. A continent that lives and breathes football. Some of the most remarkable European players made their mark early on in their careers. Cristiano Ronaldo. Eusébio. Cruyff. Maldini. The list goes on. But that was years ago. So have European countries fallen behind South America in producing phenomenal young talent?

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Can You Use CrossFit In Physical Education Classes?

Physical Education Update

A trend in physical education has been to make PE classes less difficult so that every student can enjoy them. So here’s a concept that bucks that trend. It uses a fitness program called CrossFit to make special classes more difficult and challenging. And in at least one high school, it has been extremely successful. The video above shows an example of how Crossfit concepts can be used in a high school physical education setting, as a program for students who want to work harder than in their tr

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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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Encouraging greater sport participation

Learning Through Sport

There is substantial evidence of many psychological, physical, and social health benefits of participation in sport across the lifespan, including that participation in sport is associated with improved psychological and social health benefits above other forms of leisure time physical activity for children and adolescents. Some reports indicate that team sports rather than individual activities are associated with better health (Eime et al., 2013).

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8 Ways to Help Your Child Have Success in School This Year

RC Families

Success in school will not automatically happen. As school starts, parents are hopeful that their child will have a successful year. They are eager to see their kids thrive, make new friends, connect with old ones, get along with their teachers, and grow up just a little bit more in this new grade. As you. Read More.

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Bobsled Bodies Cooperative Game

Physical Education Update

Bobsled bodies is a fun cooperative contest you can play in class or as an icebreaker. Groups of students sit behind each other in line and wrap their legs around the student in front of them. Then, as a group, they move backwards with only their hands, and the legs of the back student, in touch with the ground. Add several teams in a race and you have a fun activity.

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Rhythm Fit (Grades K-8)

Open Phys Ed

Created by: Ben Pirillo, Victor Spadaro, Nichole Wilder. Music Production: Hip Hop Public Health. YouTube Crew: Ben Pirillo, Brian Devore, Eileen Tirado, LaDonda Porter, Nichole Wilder, Tom Gelardi, Victor Spadaro. The Rhythm Fit modules will be an on-going series of routines set to music using a variety of equipment. These activities provide an opportunity for teachers to integrate rhythmic movement in a fun and engaging way.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Join Me on the “History. Trauma. Culture.” Podcast to Discuss Back-to-School 2022

Relentless School Nurse

I am honored and excited to join Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Matthew Portell, Director of Communities, in a conversation about returning to school as we enter our fourth school year impacted by COVID. The details below were retrieved from the PACEs Connection website: . ‘History. Trauma. Culture.’ podcast: Back-to-school with Relentless School Nurse Robin Cogan, Thursday, 1 p.m.

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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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Top 10 Benefits of Pilates in 2022

The Sporting

Find out about the benefits of Pilates Pilates is a low-intensity workout that involves various poses and stretches. The main purpose of Pilates is to strengthen your body and make it more flexible. Pilates enables you to target your whole body at once. In 2022, many people will be incorporating Pilates into their daily life because of its endless advantages.

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Playtime in the Snow with Wolf Children: An Animated Film

Physical Education Update

The holiday season is almost here and since this is my last blog of the year I thought I’d show you this video by acclaimed director, Mamoru Hosoda. It’s an excerpt from his animated film, “Wolf Children,” that won the Audience Award in the New York International Children’s Film Festival and also the Japan Academy Prize for best Animation Film.

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Protecting Your Child’s Lungs From Smoky Air

Stanford Childrens

Pediatric pulmonologist Esmeralda Morales, MD, answers the most common questions she gets from parents. Fire season is unfortunately here again, and with it comes a host of questions about how to protect your child’s lungs from smoky air. Esmeralda Morales, MD , a pediatric pulmonologist and director of the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Asthma Program, answers some of the most common questions she gets from parents.

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President’s Message August 2022: “First Base”

Arizona Health and Physical Education

I hope everyone is have a great start to the 2022-2023 school year! I know getting back in the swing of things especially now can be challenging, but also so satisfying. Coming back really got me thinking about the theme of this years state convention (November 1-3 at the Phoenix convention center. Registration and session proposals are open). I had a plan in mind on exactly what “covering all the bases” meant to me, and what each base was going to represent.

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5 Players with Most Man of the Match Awards in Cricket

The Sporting

The top cricket Man of the Match winners The man of the match award is given after a cricket match to the player who creates the most entertaining performance. In the 1980s, the Man of the Match award in international cricket became a custom. It is given to the player who made an actual difference in the match's outcome, though occasionally a member of the losing team may also be named Man of the Match.

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Get Out of Your Armchair Video Promotes the Benefits of Exercise

Physical Education Update

Here’s a funny video about the benefits of exercise and the disadvantages of inactivity. Produced by the European Commission and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), it’s titled “Go On, Get Out of Your Armchair.” As you can see, those who have risen from their chairs have a considerable advantage in a soccer game (among other things).

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Welcome 7th Graders (SY22-23)

Mr. Suarez's Physical Education

As you already know from what we have already spoken about in class, this week is orientation week in which we will familiarize ourselves with what goes on daily in Physical Education. We will use the google slides included here in this post as our guide to help us through these first several weeks in class. I will add any and all orientation updates to this google slide, so refer to it every so often in this post.

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The PE Huddle: A New School Year – A Game Plan for a Successful Start

Gopher Sport

Kick off the school year by tuning in to the August PE Huddle with a focus on “ A New School Year: A Game Plan for a Successful Start”. Join our guests Shannon Irwin, Bill Jones, and Richard Edgar as they discuss preparing for the start of school. The start of the school year has a large impact on how you feel about your classes and teaching in general throughout the school year.

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Why I’m Launching KS3 PE courses on TheEverLearner

The Everlearner

Earlier in 2022, I announced the intention of building brand-new courses for KS3 physical education. In 2020, I had previously built a KS3 PE course as part of our free COVID provision. This initial course was a series of resources thrown together quickly and essentially a mash-up of existing GCSE, BTEC and Cambridge National content. Despite the hurried nature of this provision, this content has proven very popular and has been used extensively.

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Is Tom Brady the Greatest Quarterback of All Time?

The Sporting

We consider whether Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time Depending on where you live, you probably have a strong opinion on where Tom Brady should be in the history books compared to other quarterbacks. There are a lot of good arguments about why he is and why he is not the greatest quarterback of all time. In this article, we will explain five reasons why he is the best quarterback and 5 reasons why he may not be- starting with reasons that Tom Brady is the GOAT.

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By: New paper purports to refute “social contagion hypothesis” for transgender adolescents – Why Evolution Is True

Amaze

[…] the way, this comes from the AMAZE outfit, devoted to wokeist indoctrination of children. Check out this series of videos, for […].

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Genetics Team Serves as Go-to for Mom of Son With Extremely Rare Disorder

Stanford Childrens

Asher Gerlach, age 6, is a special kid. Not only because he’s one of just 20–30 children in the world with an exceptionally rare genetic disease, according to medical literature, but also because he has a refreshing take on life. “Asher is super-affectionate. He snuggles with everyone,” says his mom, Jen Gerlach. “He can’t say ‘snuggle,’ so he says ‘guggle’ instead.

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Reinvestment

Montessori Physical Education

First and foremost, I want to thank everyone who took advantage of the back-to-school sale and purchased from the website. The best way I could think of saying thank you to you all is to reinvest back into Montessori Physical Education, and I did just that. The past month has allowed me to do two incredible things I want to share with you. Number one, I purchased an iPad, which I will use to record the students playing the games.

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Why Roger Clemens Should Be in the Hall of Fame

The Sporting

Why Roger Clemens should go into the Hall of Fame with the Red Sox There is no doubt that the Hall of Fame debate sometimes circles around those that used steroids during the steroids era of the 90s- and it is argued by some baseball writers that, because of their steroid use, they don’t deserve to go to the Baseball Hall of Fame. However, what if I were to tell you there may be a reasonable solution to allow them to go into the Hall of Fame that would work for the majority that were named?

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Resveratrol to Support Cognition and Healthy Aging

Designs for Health

Resveratrol (trans-3,4’,5 trihydroxystilbene) is a polyphenolic molecule found in grape skin, berries (such as blueberries and raspberries), and peanuts. It is known for its role in supporting a healthy response to oxidative stress and inflammation and its support of cardiovascular and metabolic functions within the human body. . Studies indicate that resveratrol may support many biological pathways associated with the aging process , oxidative stress, and the inflammatory response.

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The Benefits of Playing Board Games for Kids

S&S

Whether it is an after-school program, a summer camp, day care or any other place a bunch of kids have free time, board games are great way for kids to have fun and learn various skills along the way! So, … Read More. The post The Benefits of Playing Board Games for Kids appeared first on S&S Blog.

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How Schools Can Prioritize Teacher Wellness

FACTS Management

You don’t have to work in the education industry to know that the last few years have been tough for teachers. While educators have always faced challenges, the stress and constant changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have made the situation even more difficult. A recent Gallup poll revealed that K-12 workers have the highest level of burnout across all industries nationally.

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The Most lethal bouncers ever bowled in Cricket

The Sporting

The most dangerous bouncers of all time If you’re a cricket fan , fast bowling may be your favourite part of the game. One of sport's most exquisite spectacles, not just in cricket, is the art of quick bowling. It is exciting to watch a pace bowler run in with tons of talent, intent and artful skills- looking to execute strategies and deliveries throughout a match to dismiss batters.

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Recent Review Explores Efficacy of SAMe and Probiotics on Mental Health

Designs for Health

S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) is a metabolite produced naturally in the body. It is considered the principal methyl donor in all human cells. SAMe supports more than 100 biochemical pathways, including the transmethylation process; research indicates this is particularly important in brain development. . Deficiencies in SAMe production have been linked to the incidence of certain neuropsychiatric diseases and delayed brain development.

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Giving the Gift of Fitness Energy

Heartzones

How can students and community stakeholders invest their fitness energy back into their homes and neighborhoods? Written by Beth Kirkpatrick , Heart Zones Director of Advocacy. August 2022. There are several valuable steps to accomplish this outcome. First, for the fitness enthusiast, you should generate energy (aka burn calories) through physical movement activities of your choice.

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England Hockey Release Letter to Future PM

Association for Physical Education

11/08/2022 Today, the Women’s and Men’s England Commonwealth Games hockey teams have sent a letter to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss calling on government support to back the provision of […]. The post England Hockey Release Letter to Future PM appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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Top 7 Exercises to Boost Your Metabolism

The Sporting

Boost your metabolism with these simple exercises Metabolism is your body’s ability to convert food into energy. Some people naturally have fast metabolism while others have a slow metabolism. Slow metabolism can lead to obesity, which is dangerous for your health. Many people are health conscious and want to stay in shape. To stay fit, you need a fast metabolism.

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5v5 Transition Game

Player Development Project

This is a directional possession or wave practice. The session aims to encourage players to control the ball in an overload situation with quick combination play and accurate passing. Defenders are tasked with pressing outnumbered, winning the ball and trying to score before transitioning to possession and supporting their team mates. Quick Navigation About the Video Additional Information Practice Overview Interpreting the Diagrams Diagrams Objectives Organisation Observations & Interventio

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