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Why I Embrace a More Inclusive and Empathetic Teaching Style in Physical Education

SHAPE America

As American society and schools experience growing diversity and interconnectedness, our responsibilities as teachers must embrace pedagogical approaches that nurture and celebrate diversity, inclusion, and empathy. In this way, there is shared responsibility in addressing inequities and other systemic barriers.

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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. Kindness-Themed Lessons for Health & PE I use the health.

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5 Simple Ways Principals Can Prioritize Health and Wellness This School Year

SHAPE America

I am surprised when I hear schools no longer have field day to protect “academic time.” Wellness Walk — Teachers lead their classes through a route along our school perimeter. Along the way, they participate in different activities that have been pre-planned by our physical education teacher. We make time for it.

Wellness 411
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How to Teach Students About Death in the Health Education Classroom (or Any Classroom)

SHAPE America

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. Preschool) PBS Kids — When a Pet Dies (Elementary School) PBS Kids Go!

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Review of Promoting Elementary School Physical Activity

Human Kinetics

That’s a necessary commitment that policy makers, school and community leaders, funders, and the public and private sectors have to make for generations to come. Promoting Elementary School Physical Activity is a key resource that will help make that commitment happen. By Laurie P. Whitsel, Ph.D,

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The Relentless School Nurse: A Six-Year-Old School Shooter

Relentless School Nurse

This is not a far-flung script for a crime show, this is real life and it happened this past Friday at an elementary school in Newport News, Virginia. . The only information released is that the child and teacher were involved in an “altercation” and that the shooting was “intentional.”

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How I Received Grants for My Physical Education Classes

SHAPE America

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. Open, I told some other New York City physical education teachers in a Facebook group. One of the teachers was really excited about the information about the U.S.