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PE Homework - The only Two Questions Worth Asking

The Everlearner

Since I have been a teacher, qualifying in 1999, guidance on how to set high-impact home learning has been exceptionally limited. I have followed various protocols in different schools, even written strategies for others, but I have almost never received bespoke, intelligent principles on home home learning should be considered. Furthermore, every system I have worked in has been prescriptive.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Embracing “Exercise Snacks” For a Healthier You!

Relentless School Nurse

When you hear “exercise snacks,” you might think of a protein bar or a piece of fruit. But it’s not about what you eat; it’s an approach to fitness for people on the go. In 2023, consider incorporating these short bursts of activity into your daily routine to help achieve the recommended 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per week. “Exercise snacks” serve as reminders to get up and move regularly.

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Prepare for Battle at the Plate: How the Marine Corps Builds Great Leaders

SHAPE America

“Prepare for battle at the plate, be mentally and physically sound to succeed.” Even without a history of military service, my father loved to incorporate military doctrine into my athletic training. “The only easy day was yesterday,” he would tell me during softball practices. These phrases, alongside plenty of other military jargon, were ones I heard frequently as he molded me into a sound softball athlete.

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Recording: Important Primary PE and sport premium Update 2023-2024

Association for Physical Education

 Title: ‘Important Primary PE and sport premium Update 2023-2024′ Delivered on Wednesday 13th September 2023 by Department for Education, Association for Physical Education and the Youth Sport Trust Session […] The post Recording: Important Primary PE and sport premium Update 2023-2024 appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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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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New Immune System, New Life for California Teen Overcoming Leukemia

Stanford Childrens

Aggressive leukemia stopped in its tracks by innovative cancer treatments at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health From the minute you meet Emily and Susana, it’s obvious that they have an extraordinary mother-daughter bond. Their connection is so palpable that it’s like talking to one person—they sit close, find each other’s gaze constantly, and finish each other’s sentences.

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PEdagogy in Practice Conference 2023

PE Scholar

Are you looking for new and innovative practical ideas to enhance your PE teaching?

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The Art of Rugby Goal Kicking

The Sporting

Goal kicking in Rugby: More than just putting your best foot forward Rugby journalist Daniel Cullinane drills down into the detail regarding goalkicking in Rugby Union, and how detail is a kicker’s best friend. He looks at the unique pressure goalkickers’ face and puts up 3 of the greatest kickers ever as fine examples of how they overcome it. More fine Rugby content at the gain line from The Sporting Blog.

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Orthopedic Surgery Legend Dr. Lawrence Rinsky Retires

Stanford Childrens

Sometimes, legends are born. And sometimes people become legends by making life better for others with positive actions, words, and attitudes each and every day. Of these, Lawrence Rinsky, MD, retiring pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health , is the latter. Fifty-two years ago, Dr. Rinsky began his orthopedic surgical residency at Stanford and never looked back.

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The Relentless School Nurse: One of Our Own Needs Our Help! Please Support Sharon Guthrie on Her Long Road to Recovery

Relentless School Nurse

Sharon Guthrie, PhD, ARNP, CPNP, NCSN, RN-BC Dear friends, On September 8th, 2023 , Sharon Guthrie , a beloved school nurse, Executive Director of the Iowa School Nurses Organization , friend to many, dedicated nursing professor, and advocate, had a life-altering motorcycle accident on her way to work. She is currently in critical but stable condition at the University of Iowa Hospital, where we fervently hope for her full and speedy recovery.

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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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Using Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) as pedagogy of affect to enact the Health and Well-being AOLE through PE.

PE Scholar

Introduction In my previous blog, I touched on how I’d begun to adopt ‘pedagogies of affect’ (Kirk, 2010, 2021; Casey & Kirk, 2021) in my PE

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Top Products for the New School Year!

Moving Minds Blog

Now that the school year is underway, your protocols and procedures are probably established, and there’s room to add some movement breaks for the students to get their wiggles out! Allowing children to move and be active helps facilitate learning with memory retention and increased concentration. Below I share some of Moving Minds’ top products [.] The post Top Products for the New School Year!

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Bringing New Life into the World Every Day

Stanford Childrens

In celebration of Women in Medicine Month, we honor the women caring for women and our youngest patients. Nailah “Zoi” Cox, RN, (left) and Dr. Erica Wu (right). When Nailah “Zoi” Cox first witnessed the delivery of a new life into the world, it changed her own. While in a nursing class, she received word that a birth was about to happen and without hesitation she rushed to be there.

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15 Spook-Tacular PE Games

Gopher Sport

As we approach the spookiest time of the year, bring some Halloween magic to your gym class! We’ve brewed up a list of Halloween-themed physical education games and exercises that will have your students howling with excitement. From witch broomstick relays to haunted header soccer challenges, these activities are sure to make your PE lessons a ghoulishly good time.

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Handball Student Resource Cards

PE Scholar

These Handball resource cards are helpful in learning the basics of the game. With clear explanations & practice activities, they will cut planning time in half.

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Genistein to Promote Menopausal Comfort and Bone Health

Designs for Health

Genistein is an isoflavone phytoestrogen found primarily in legumes. It exhibits mild estrogenic activity compared to the endogenous hormone estradiol and preferentially activates estrogen-receptor beta (ER-beta). Due to its mild estrogenic properties, genistein has been studied for its role in supporting menopausal comfort and bone health in women.

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Simple Orthodontic Device Helps Baby Breathe, Eat Without Support

Stanford Childrens

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is the first-in-nation to offer a treatment for small jaw other than surgery When Brittany and Ben Proulx started planning their family, they both had one big worry – passing on Stickler syndrome , a genetic condition, to their kids. Stickler comes with a distinctive receding chin that can interfere with normal breathing and feeding, collectively called Pierre Robin sequence.

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122 Basketball Quotes: Quotes about Basketball Players, Teams and Famous Games

The Sporting

Over 120 Basketball Quotes For All Hoops Fans: Quotes About Basketball Teams, Players and Famous Games A compilation of over 100 Basketball quotes for all fans of the NBA , college and international basketball. The game of Basketball has provided us with some of the most quotable characters, players and situations in sports history. This collection of basketball quotes will provide inspiration, humour and insight into the game of basketball. 19 Quotes About the Game of Basketball "Basketball doe

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Effectiveness of a Physical Education Program on the Motor and Pre-literacy Skills of Preschoolers From the Training-To-Health Project: A Focus on Weight Status

PE Scholar

The effectiveness of a physical education program on locomotor, object control skills, and pre-literacy cognitive functions.

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5 Signs You are Parenting on Auto-Pilot

RC Families

Are you parenting on auto-pilot? As parents, it’s easy to live in survival mode each day, rarely taking the time to think about the state of our parenting. Some days parenting on auto-pilot is all you can do. Life brings tragedy, frustrations, hurts, and difficulties that drain you of your ability to be intentional. Those.

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How to Manage Your Child’s Separation Anxiety

Stanford Childrens

It’s only natural for babies to want to be close to their parents. But what does it mean when suddenly your child cries every time you leave the room? Gianna Frazee, MD , a pediatrician at Town and Country Pediatrics – Mill Valley offers insights on how to help your child navigate separation anxiety. Separation anxiety is a common developmental phase that usually develops when babies are around nine to 10 months of age, typically around the time they start crawling.

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Running Quotes: Over 100 Powerful Quotes About Running & Jogging

The Sporting

Running Quotes: 100+ Running Quotes to Motivate, Inspire and Help You Hit Your Running Goals Over 100 running quotes for the amateur runner, professional athlete and anyone who enjoys running and jogging. These running quotes will help motivate you, provide inspiration and put your running goals within your sights! 30 Motivational Running Quotes "Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up." — Dean Karnazes "Your body can stand almost anything.

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Move and Play to Know Your Way!

Fit and Fun Play

Directions are funny. My wife has no idea if we are driving north, south, east, or west. She refers to herself as “directionally challenged”. I feel like I have a sense of direction – as I know when I am facing north for example but if I had to give you directions to the store, I couldn’t say go north for 3 blocks then turn east for 5 then south for 2 then make a slight turn to the west and it will be on the right.

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Exploring PE teachers’ attitudes towards and experiences of transgender inclusion

Association for Physical Education

15/09/2023 Qualified PE teachers in England, who are currently teaching are invited to take part in a research project that aims to examine current practice and attitudes towards transgender issues […] The post Exploring PE teachers’ attitudes towards and experiences of transgender inclusion appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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Exploring the Vision of PE Through Different Lenses

Gopher Sport

Physical education is a profession that is often viewed through different lenses.

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Ajax Vs Feyenoord: The Enduring Rivalry

The Sporting

Ajax and Feyenoord Rivalry: Opposites that do not attract The Ajax and Feyenoord rivalry is the biggest in Dutch football and one of the fiercest in the world. Known as “De Klassieker”, the rivalry pits the two largest cities in the country against each other – Amsterdam, the cosmopolitan tourist centre of the country, the city of artists, dreamers, and bureaucracy: and Rotterdam, home to the biggest port in Europe, the city of dockers, workers, sweat, and toil.

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Tips for a Successful National Day of Giving

FACTS Management

With summer coming to an end and the school year back in full swing, the sixth annual Many Gifts, One Nation: A Day of Giving to Catholic Schools is just around the corner! If you haven’t participated in this fundraiser before, it’s a fantastic opportunity for anyone who has been positively impacted by Catholic education to pay it forward and donate to local Catholic schools just like yours.

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The Churchill Education Fellowships – Now Open!

Association for Physical Education

13/09/2023 Applications for Churchill Fellowships are now open in a wide range of programmes, including one focused on education in schools. Churchill Fellows spend up to two months meeting the […] The post The Churchill Education Fellowships – Now Open! appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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#024 Top 5 passing and receiving practices

Player Development Project

Reader,​​ Passing and receiving the football is arguably the most important skill in the game. Players who can receive with quality, buy themselves time on the ball, and releasing the ball over various distances of both feet is a core skill. So how do we go about developing these attributes? This week, we’ve decided to share five of our top passing and receiving practices from the PDP Session Plan Library.​​​Playing Through & Around​​​In this practice, PDP Coaching Advisor, James Coutts.

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The 7 Most Popular Sports in Texas

The Sporting

The Top 7 Most Popular Sports in Texas: Some of These Might Surprise You! Texas is passionate about sports - but what are the most popular sports in Texas? Read on to find out - including all the latest stats and facts about viewership, fans and big moments in Texas sporting history! Baseball is one of the most popular sports in Texas As the second most populated state in the US, Texas is home to many professional franchises in major sports leagues.

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How to do Grades in PE Class |Elementary School|

The PE Specialist

What’s up Phys Ed Fam? With this post I want to cover one of the most common questions I hear teachers discussing which is… How do you handle grades in Elementary PE Class?

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Recent Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Investigated Relationship Between n-3 PUFA Supplementation and Bone Integrity

Designs for Health

The challenges of maintaining bone integrity can increase as we age. Bone health can be affected by hormonal changes, nutritional status , and lifestyle factors such as physical activity. Unbalanced inflammatory states have also been shown to negatively influence bone metabolism. States of decreased bone formation and increased bone resorption have been associated in research with elevated levels of certain inflammatory markers including C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL)-6.

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Tommy Smith: Meeting the Demands of Professional Football

Player Development Project

Over the course of his career, Tommy Smith has been an ever-present figure in the Championship, played over 300 games in England’s professional leagues and the MLS, and won 50 caps for the All Whites. Below, the MK Dons defender reflects on his journey to senior football, and the qualities that have helped him to thrive in an array of professional environments.