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Judy Doran, our Maine school nurse friend who writes “Maine Points” was determined to bring the concerning survey results about the state of mental health in school nursing to the public. She succeeded in writing a compelling Letter to the Editor of the Portland Press Herald! Congratulations Judy! . Here is a link to the article: Letter to the editor: Help school nurses heal from COVID’s mental health impact.
October is one of the most exciting months of the school year for our students. Without a doubt, on October 1st, students will ask, “Are we going play any Halloween games today?” Although we’ll sprinkle a few Halloween-themed games into a lesson the first.
Well, it’s the morning of Christmas eve and, while it’s too late to write Santa, I do have some Christmas wishes related to sport. This Christmas, I wish: …For two new hamstrings to be left in my Xmas stocking. My old ones are broken. …That NFL quarterback great, Brett Favre, would finally admit that his name should be pronounced “Favréy” not “Farve.” …That they’d get rid of the offside rule in soccer.
by: Aaron Hart. OPENPhysEd.org. I’ve spent much of my career working with and talking to hundreds of physical educators around the United States. As a result, I’ve collected some important words of wisdom over the years. Most of those gems focus on the importance of building a network of support with parents and like-minded colleagues. For many physical educators, parents come into our classrooms with deeply held preconceptions – both good and bad.
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.
I spent part of Sunday engrossed in the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly published policy statement: Firearm-Related Injuries and Deaths in Children and Youth: Injury Prevention and Harm Reduction. A press release describing the findings illustrated the enormity of the public health emergency with the following explanation: “Each day, 28 US children and teens — the equivalent of a high school classroom — die from gun violence, making it the No. 1 killer of youth through age 24.
Some of the National Football League games this weekend were conducted in blizzard conditions – it was exceptionally enjoyable watching them from in front of my fireplace on my LazyBoy chair. In the Buffalo versus Cleveland snow-bowl, you’d see the players complete their series of downs in the driving winds and ankle-deep snow, then head for the sidelines and their blankets and heaters.
Welcome to Pumpkin Patch Games! We’ve reorganized and added new activities! This new Pumpkin Patch landing page includes your favorites from years past, as well as brand new games for 2022! Thank you to the following Pumpkin Patch contributors! Drew Burris, Evan Norwood, Pam Straker, Nichole Wilder, Sarah Phillips, Paul Redman, Meggie Shoemaker, Kristen Stuber, Tracie Hammond, Tiffany Beam, Jennifer Carver, Megan Northcote, Aaron Hart.
‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair: One of the best wrestlers, and the best bad guy in the business, Woooo! It is impossible to discuss wrestling, its history, its rise, or its most prominent times and not mention the Nature Boy Ric Flair. The quintessential heel. Flair is the blueprint for which all ‘bad guys’ mould themselves—even today. The jet flyin’, limousine ridin’, kiss stealin’, wheelin’ and dealin’, son of a gun, Ric Flair, is simply the best to have ever been bad inside the squared circle.
Arizona Health and Physical Education is proud to partner with Confidence Kits. Confidence Kits is a non-profit born out of a group of loving and giving friends who provided hygiene kits to food banks as birthday gifts to one another, as a way of celebrating and giving back to others in need. They are completely volunteer staffed! This year, at the State Convention, we are asking attendees to bring items in to be donated to Confidence Kits.
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.
Jim Morris on Stage at a Speaking Engagement. I watched a baseball movie this weekend called “The Rookie.” It was about Jim Morris, a former minor league pitcher who had retired due to a series of arm injuries to become a high school science teacher and coach in small-town Texas. After losing a bet with his baseball team, he was obliged to attend a major league pitching tryout and found that his fastball, only 86 miles per hour when he was 20, had mysteriously improved to 98 miles per hour.
For the first time since the pandemic, the annual Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Pumpkin Patch Fall Festival at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford resumed outdoors in the Dunlevie Garden on Wednesday. In accordance with hospital safety protocols and visitor guidelines, patients and their families celebrated the traditional fall season and a joyful good time with health care staff.
Think Globally, Nurture Locally. It has been deeply encouraging to see the enormous cultural shift in acknowledging the importance of mental health continue, to start to see the shedding of its stigma and to be publicly embraced outside of the medical community in the last decade. For too long, the fear of social and professional implications has prevented individuals who suffer from major disruptions to their lives and well-being stemming from mental health matters from seeking care.
Nike Air Jordan - The making of a mega-brand In our latest Sport x Fashion Series, Aanu Omorodian settles in to tell the story of one of the most iconic brands of them all, Nike Air Jordan. Before examining the iconic brand, it is pertinent that the individual who inspired it is discussed first. Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 17, 1963.
On February 22, 2023, the Arizona Department of Education will be hosting a virtual Arts and PE Summit for teachers and we welcome your expertise, talent and experience in presenting discipline-specific sessions! Sessions are 45 minutes in length and will be presented via Zoom. Accepted presenters will be eligible for a $150 stipend for their time and expertise.
FiT Work #15 - Breast Cancer Awareness (SY22-23) Slide 1 - Title Slide Slide 2 - Read the short paragraph Slide 3 - Website and Video Slide 4 - Link to Google Form - Use the stacked dots above to put the google slideshow in 'Full Screen". Due FRIDAY 10/21/22.
New research has revealed yet another reason why quality daily physical education is a must for all students. The study, conducted by Dr. Graham Colditz of the Washington University School of Medicine, found that exercise beginning in the teen years can protect girls from breast cancer when they become adults. The study tracked 65,000 nurses, questioning them about their activity levels starting at the age of 12.
The best international football rivalries of all time For decades there is no doubt that there have been bitter football rivalries between countries, more in some parts of the world than others. There is a lot more international play in football than other sports thanks to events such as the World Cup, along with the Olympics and the World Games. Find out about 5 of the greatest football rivalries across the world.
There is a teacher out there that has contributed a giant amount to the teaching of PE. This person influences thousands of PE students and teachers every day of every year. This teacher is a creator, a quality checker, a team player and none of you will ever find this teacher on Twitter or on social spaces. Her name is Marta Soteras Munt and she is the driving force behind TheEverLearner.com , a platform that teaches over 5,000 PE students per day.
PLT4M, the Lakeshore Foundation and the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) are proud to announce a new partnership. The purpose of this collaboration is to support physical education teachers and coaches to provide better access and inclusion for students with disabilities. . About Lakeshore Foundation & NCHPAD Lakeshore Foundation’s activity, research and advocacy initiatives annually serve thousands of children and adults with physical disabilitie
13 players that broke the British Transfer Record - how did they fare after their big moves? Since the Premier League was founded in 1992, the transfer record has been broken by thirteen different footballers. Kurt Leyland looks back at each player to break the British transfer record since 1992 and rate them on how they fared after such high-profile moves.
We’re delighted to announce our third and final keynote speaker at this year’s conference is Will Roberts, Chief Operating Officer of Youth Sport Trust. Having experience in the fitness industry and as a sports coach in his home city of Stoke-on-Trent, Will moved into an NGB before joining the Youth Sport Trust team. Now Chief Operating Officer, Will continues to be actively involved in sport in his local community in North Staffordshire as a volunteer coach and club leader.
November 2nd and 3rd is the 2022 Arizona Health and Physical Education State Convention, South Building. Tuesday, November 1st is the Pre-convention Workshop also in the South Building. Getting there is not hard, but you must prepare! You can always ride the Metro Light Rail. The link with schedule and parking information is below. The Station closest to the South Convention Center is 3rd Street and Jefferson going East and 3rd Street and Washington going West.
What’s up PE Friends! Today I wanted to go over a fun and super easy to implement school wide challenge that you can try out in your PE classes. A while back, you might have seen the video I made explaining how I do the Fastest Class Challenge as a fun warmup activity for my […].
I have been writing lesson plans for several years now. Like any other craft, you are bound to improve when you practice over a long time. This was made painfully aware to me as I read over some of my lesson plans from Volume One. Most of those lessons were published in 2018, a whopping four years ago. Several months ago, I finished updating Volume Two , and I could see the improvement between the two.
Having a child in the hospital is tough on any family. But imagine if you had to navigate this in an unfamiliar culture or English wasn’t your first language. That’s the case for some Latinx families. Marsha Perez, Community Programs coordinator at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, describes how an advisory council is helping educate clinicians to bridge those cultural gaps.
Log in to your Educator Dashboard and report your usage of the Healthy Food, Mind, Body unit under the “Game Time” Step for a chance to win a yoga mat! The deadline to enter is October 21. In this unit, students learn new skills that connect social and emotional learning and the practice of healthy eating; lessons will ask students to identify their feelings and emotions, reflect on how a particular food makes them feel and why (i.e. calm, energized), how they feel when hungry vs.
Déirde NiChronin This blog provides an overview of pedagogies that prioritize meaningful experiences for young sports participants. Meaningful experiences are those that the participant identifies as personally significant. These experiences can be negative or positive.
Human beings spend approximately one-third of their lives sleeping. It is well known that adequate and restful sleep is essential for maintaining optimal health. Conversely, sleep disturbances and insufficient sleep have been linked to a variety of chronic conditions and a higher rate of all-cause mortality. . It is estimated that approximately 40% to 50% of adults aged 60 years and older have insomnia, which is described as unsatisfactory quantity or quality of sleep.
OPEN is ready with a new harvest of Pumpkin Patch Games! They have added new activities and refreshed your favorites from years past. There are now 18 Pumpkin Patch activities to keep your students moving through Halloween. Use the behavior rubric and academic language cards to reinforce positive engagement. Go to the Pumpkin Patch now!
What’s your type?: Looking at the different variations of Pilates There are many different types of Pilates, which is an exercise form that utilizes different ranges of controlled movements that are designed in a way to enhance physical endurance, posture, and flexibility. These movements are generally directed at your core to make your body conditioned and make stronger, more sculpted muscles with no extra bulk.
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