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Fishin’ for Change: Combining Physical Education and Outdoor Recreation

SHAPE America

We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. We needed teacher chaperones, ones who embrace the trip’s laissez faire spirit.

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This Is How My School Stocks Up on Kindness … and PE Equipment

SHAPE America

As a physical education teacher, I have been doing school fundraisers for 23 years. In spring 2019, my school, Odessa Upper Elementary, was one of the pilot schools for SHAPE America’s health. lessons throughout the school year. We are looking to help multiple charities in our community over time.

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What does the Adapted Physical Education teacher really do?

Arizona Health and Physical Education

If you are a certified physical education teacher, chances are you were required to take one 3-credit class in working with students with disabilities in your physical education classes. Some districts have one adapted physical education teacher who provides consultation services for the entire district. Now what do I mean by settings?

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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

This underscores the futility of making high-stakes decisions about a childs athletic future in elementary school. Additionally, school staff such as teachers, guidance counselors, and athletic trainers often have closer, daily contact with students than volunteer youth coaches do.

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Teaching Rhythm and Dance In Physical Education

The Physical Educator

Dance is a polarizing subject in the world of physical education: some teachers love to teach it, other teachers can’t even imagine themselves teaching it. The unit was built on the following grade-level outcomes: Performs a teacher and/or student-designed rhythmic activity with correct response to simple rhythms (S1.E5.2)

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Focus on injury prevention, wellness earns top mark for Bound Brook High girls basketball, USA Today

Whole Child Sports

Which is not, in any way, shape or form, to suggest or insinuate that co-ed and boys teams (at the recreational and travel levels) do not sorely need more female coaches too: THEY DO. And perhaps the most socially aware teacher of college women I’ve ever met. To wit, check out Bound Brook’s killa Coach Jen.

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An unusual school celebrates its first century

Stanford Childrens

K-12 hospital school gives kids a chance for normalcy and connections to other kids during long recoveries At most schools, the two students would never have met. One boy was a teenager in high school, the other a child in early elementary school. We had one teacher and there was camaraderie.”

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