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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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.