SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

No matter how you refer to it, lacrosse is a great game to teach your students in physical education class! SHAPE America and USA Lacrosse recently collaborated on an updated, comprehensive physical education lacrosse curriculum. What’s New in the USA Lacrosse PE Curriculum. Using UDL While Teaching Lacrosse.

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SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As a physical education teacher, I have been doing school fundraisers for 23 years. Funds for PE Equipment and More Raising donations during the fundraiser period (which lasts about four weeks at my school) is a game changer for my school. Kindness-Themed Lessons for Health & PE I use the health.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Wisconsin Health and Physical Education (WHPE), a SHAPE America state affiliate, has been “speaking out” for quality health and physical education in Wisconsin for more than two decades. Advocating for health and physical education is worth the effort! This greatly increased WHPE visibility.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

SHAPE America serves as the voice for 200,000+ health and physical education professionals across the United States, and the organization is committed to diverse leadership on its Board. She also coordinates the Physical Education Master’s Certification Program at the University of Maryland College Park. She has an Ed.D. He has a Ph.D.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 23, 2023

On February 15, 2023, more than 130 dedicated health and physical education professionals from 33 states attended SHAPE America’s SPEAK Out! At this annual event, members of the HPE community meet with representatives of Congress to advocate for continued support and robust funding for health and physical education.

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SHAPE America

JULY 25, 2024

Teaching media literacy in skills-based health education can do just that. While media and technology evolve and change, the skills students develop through media literacy education last a lifetime. When considering the definition of media literacy above, it’s easy to see a lot of connections to skills-based health education.

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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role? There was a time where the age group I deal with are supposed to be ready for their enlistment in the uniform-groups via their fitness lessons in schools ) To a large extent, precision also plays a big part of how the fraternity exhibits in delivering PE.

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SHAPE America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I am a physical education teacher in New York City who is committed to embracing a more inclusive and empathetic teaching style in physical education. I consider myself to be an anti-racist teacher — and by embracing this approach, I aim to co-create inclusive learning environments in physical education.

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SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

As an elementary physical education teacher in the Bronx, NY, I’m always looking for ways to stretch my PE budget and introduce my students to new physical activities. Here are some examples of the types of grants I’ve received, along with my advice on how you might find similar grants for your physical education classes.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 14, 2023

Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. As a school community, we value learning outside the school walls, and as educators we were drawn to fishing because of its many variables and open outcomes. He has served as Ancona’s Outdoor Learning Educator since 2016.

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SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

SHAPE America’s National Physical Education & Sport Week (May 1-7) is a celebration of the importance of physical education and sport in the lives of kids of all ages. Here are five ways to celebrate physical activity during National PE & Sport Week and every week — and all year round: 1.

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SHAPE America

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This will include ways to integrate prevention education into your health classroom, how prevention education intersects with health and wellness, and introduce free resources that are available to you. Prevention Education Is Key. Let’s use Health Literacy Month to continue this momentum, together.

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Adding more movement — through physical education, recess and active classrooms — is essential for beating the almost-winter blues. Educators worry about time spent on learning, the Common Core, and curriculum standards (all for good reason). All three of these tenants of PE can be better utilized in classroom settings.

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Drowning in the Shallow

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

For Catherine Ennis, if PE is to educate students for a lifetime of physical activity, then it needs to provide not just an effective experience but an engaging one as well.

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Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 11, 2024

The Perfect Physical Education (PE) classroom – What does it look like? Is PE a guilt-trip subject for education systems to ensure there is a balance in their existence? The macro education environment seems to believe in its presence and its deserved existence but the worry for me is its micro presence in schools.

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 11, 2022

At one such lunch with Mary Henninger, professor in the PETE program at Illinois State University, we began jotting down notes on a napkin — strategies for launching a successful career as a health and physical education teacher. You’ll find a broad network of health and physical education professionals on Twitter. Running the Race.

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 2, 2023

How do you know what to teach in your physical education classes? If you often find yourself wondering or asking in an online community what you should do in PE this week or next week or how to start, then you picked the right article to read. Let me tell you a little bit about me. What should the students know and be able to do?

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Drowning in the Shallow

MARCH 17, 2024

Throughout my career there has often been debate whether physical education is a practical subject, an academic subject or a combination of both. My personal … Continue reading PE as an existential subject →

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Drowning in the Shallow

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Teaching PE is a continuous act of making professional judgements about the why(s), how(s) and what(s) of physical education (Quennerstedt, 2019). This is a fundamental but challenging part of a PE teachers job. This … Continue reading What’s your PE Jigsaw Puzzle?

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Drowning in the Shallow

OCTOBER 13, 2024

“PE is not Sport.” ” A proclamation that I’ve written on social media and announced to others as a means of educating their ignorance. Those who often talk about the subject, but do not teach it, tend to view sport and physical education as the same.

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Drowning in the Shallow

APRIL 8, 2023

When children turn up to PE we may not inform them of the learning intention and explain why that learning intention is valuable. This makes it both harder for teachers to teach and for children to learn and see PE as valuable in their education. If this happens our subject can seem to lack coherence.

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SHAPE America

JUNE 23, 2022

Despite recent attention to the needs of Black youth, their perspectives are still noticeably absent from physical education in a way that fully encapsulates the full spectrum of their experiences. Contrary to what is occasionally implied, physical education is not immune to inequities that exist in society.

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Reinventing the Game

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In a recent sharing by our highest education trained in-charge person in the nation, much of the discussion revolved around taking care of the learners in the best possible way without a focus on wanting them all to be alike in objectives and achievements. Listed below are series of seemingly random encounters/questions/observations/etc.

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SHAPE America

JUNE 18, 2024

As an educator and a trusted source of information, you can help your students understand the risks of vaping, teach them how to build healthy coping skills, and ultimately empower them to live vape-free. The campaign also provides resources for educators to help students avoid or quit vaping. Find out more about Promoted Content.

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SHAPE America

MAY 29, 2024

Prevention education is key to saving lives — and early water safety education can have a lifelong impact. The program is being offered for free to educators, camp counselors and anyone who teaches groups of children. That’s why the American Red Cross revamped its Longfellow’s Water Safety for Children program for this summer.

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Drowning in the Shallow

AUGUST 28, 2022

It was a critical principle underpinning UK Parliament’s (2021) recent proposal for a ‘national plan for sport, health and wellbeing‘ and the government’s response agreed that it should be an essential focus for physical education (PE) and school sport (DCMS, 2022).

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SHAPE America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2023, I presented a session at the SHAPE America National Convention & Expo in Seattle with Jessica Adkins, the 2022 SHAPE America Western District High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year. When we teach students about death in health education, we can help them understand life, empathy, and resilience.

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SHAPE America

JULY 27, 2023

Educators feel the pressure all around them. This leaves educators feeling overwhelmed and frustrated, searching for something to take off their plates. This leaves educators feeling overwhelmed and frustrated, searching for something to take off their plates. As a principal, I certainly do as well. Don’t do it!

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SHAPE America

MARCH 24, 2022

SHAPE America’s National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education outline what a student should know and be able to do as a result of a highly effective physical education program. There are currently five National Standards for physical education. National Standards — What Are They?

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Slow Chat PE

APRIL 2, 2023

The incredible part of what I saw this weekend was not that there was an education conference; it was the precision and vision that was created first in her mind and then willed into existence. Educators usually aren’t treated like this! I walked away with a better understanding of who she is a mom as well as an educator.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Physical education electives offer an opportunity for students within a physical education program to select from a wide variety of different course options that suit their goals and interests. Should physical education be required? ” Not only are there physical benefits, but mental, emotional, and social.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This year’s theme, according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is Black Health and Wellness, which ties into the content areas of health and physical education. Here are some ideas for incorporating this into health education: Have students read about Henrietta Lacks.

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PE Scholar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

PE Scholar provides a wide range of professional development for teachers,coaches and education professionals working in physical education, sport

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Drowning in the Shallow

APRIL 14, 2024

PE is neither good nor bad. What we get out of PE is dependent on how we craft it, what we fill it with, and who we get to … Continue reading A few thoughts on a Rights Respecting PE → It is an empty vessel and all stakeholders involved in the subject have a duty to act ethically as we have the potential to do harm.

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Active Schools Us

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Physical education (PE) is critical to students’ overall development. However, PE is often portrayed negatively on television and in movies. Having well-trained, passionate PE teachers is essential to the success of any physical education program. Physical education can get confused with physical activity.

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

KYSHAPE provides daily slides with prompts, as well as activities and social media posts for each daily theme that administrators, health and physical educators, and other classroom teachers can use. As a health and physical education teacher, I teach kindness as part of my curriculum. minds event., but all year.

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