SHAPE America

MARCH 14, 2023

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 found them in the fifth and sixth grade teachers, who happened to be nature lovers (though not anglers).

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SHAPE America

JUNE 2, 2022

When I got to East Hampton High School, once again there was no girls soccer team. My PE teacher took enough personal interest in me to introduce me to the girls basketball coach, telling him that I should go out for the team. I asked a teacher to help me write a letter to the Board of Education. It’s Official.

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Alexandra Lemm

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For elementary school teachers, intervention might be something that is done weekly and can be handled with your eyes closed. However, with middle school and high school teachers, station groups with a teacher table are not necessarily common. Make good judgment calls as a teacher, it´s your class!

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

A teacher from the Queen Creek Unified School District was given an honorable mention in the Arizona Educational Foundation’s 2025 Teacher of the Year Awards. Lara Cox, a K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School, will be honored at the Arizona Teacher of the Year Awards ceremony on Oct.

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Relentless School Nurse

MAY 1, 2023

And on May 24, we’ll mark one year since 19 children and two teachers were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. After you create your event , we will send you instructions about how to see who has signed up and how to mark who attended your event, as well as additional resources.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In its annual tradition to honor, support and celebrate Arizona’s educators, Fiesta Bowl Charities has granted 500 teachers — including 17 Surprise teachers — with $2,500 each during the Palo Verde Fiesta Bowl Charities Wishes for Teachers Draft Day presented by SRP, for a total of $1.25

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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. Share Facts About Black Health and Wellness. How can someone’s culture affect how they might take care of their health?

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. Well, that is just part of the story. Let me see if I can provide a (kinda) clear picture of a day in the life of an adapted physical educator. .

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PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

Elementary physical education teachers have a lot to cover! We have put together a free sample of elementary PE lesson plans that are sure to spark excitement with elementary students in physical education class. Platforms like Teachers Pay Teachers offer creative ideas, but most schools dont fund these purchases.

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PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

.” The old school term “gym class” usually elicits images of rolling out the balls and playing dodgeball. Physical education teachers have long tried to leave the term and memories of “gym class” behind them and spotlight their quality physical education programs. Piekarz-Porter, et al. Get the case study.

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Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. This early commercialism can overshadow the fundamental aim of youth sports: enjoyment, character development, a growing love for the sport, and holistic well-being.

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Heartzones

MARCH 25, 2024

” ~ Bennett Ranch Elementary School (BRES) Administrator What was your first experience with Physical Education technology? Bennett Ranch Elementary generously was loaned the Heart Zones’ sensors during the 2019/20 school year. Also, the sensors are durable and hold up well to active students.

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PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

When a physical education teacher can’t be in class, whether due to illness, professional development, or personal matters, the show must go on. Well-thought-out PE sub plans not only help maintain the flow of the class but also ensure that students stay active, motivated, and safe, even in the PE teachers absence.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The kids at Irene Lopez Elementary School had a ball on Thursday, and students at over 600 other schools throughout Arizona will soon follow suit thanks to a new partnership between the Arizona Coyotes and Equality Health. That’s what they want to do in health and wellness, and that’s what we do as an organization.”

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PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

And this lack of physical activity doesn’t come without consequences – it impacts everything from students struggling to focus in class to staggering rates of childhood obesity. In the past, we have looked at physical education as the sole solution to addressing physical activity and students’ physical health and well-being.

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The PE Specialist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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? Well, it can definitely get super complicated, but I have a pretty simple system that I use to keep my sanity and […] What’s up Phys Ed Fam?

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Active Schools Us

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Walt Whitman’s well-known 1865 poem “O Captain! However, several recent studies foreground principals’ perceptions about active schools, bringing to light a “top down” perspective that warrants closer consideration in efforts to create more physically active school environments. By: Collin A. Webster, Ph.D. My Captain!”

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Stanford Childrens

AUGUST 23, 2023

The VR lessons are part of the Immersive Technology Education program launched by the Stanford CHARIOT program , an internationally recognized group from mixed subspecialties that uses immersive technology, including virtual reality, to reduce anxiety and pain in pediatric patients and improve their well-being.

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PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

These include enhanced concentration and attention as well as improved classroom behavor. Even though it is widely accepted that 60 minutes a day of physical activity helps elementary school students all the way through high school students, only one-quarter of this group is actually getting the recommended amount of physical activity. .

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Human Kinetics

MARCH 22, 2021

The curricula that accompany the Dynamic Physical Education textbooks will be discussed as well as the foundational skills necessary to implement them effectively in schools. . . Presentation Material. All content within this presentation, including accompanying handouts, is the copyrighted work of the author unless otherwise noted.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Over the years I have heard many misconceptions about how a student qualifies for adapted physical education as well as what the actual purpose of adapted physical education is. When students transition from elementary school to secondary, their services may change, depending on what is offered in each school. 1402 (25)].

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As physical educators, I am sure you all understand the importance of physical activity as well, but many of our classroom teachers withhold physical activity, recess and physical education as a form of discipline. All tickets go into a basket and the teacher pulls some out for prizes at the end of the week.

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PLT4M

AUGUST 22, 2023

The health benefits of physical education schools are well documented. After exploring the current state of student health and wellness, we outline and review the short and long-term health benefits of physical education in schools. Statistics about the current state of child wellness.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Roxeanne Bush, a middle school PE teacher in Illinois, describes the need for variety and choice , “Students at this level crave choice and different options. As teachers, we need to help foster that with various activities, units, and opportunities throughout the year. These 15 ready to go lessons can help! .

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A wide range of SEL activities for high school students can help achieve this. What Are SEL Activities For High School? Teachers want to know exactly how to hit on SEL competencies in lesson plans. Explicit SEL Activities For High School: These are targeted SEL lesson plans that focus directly on SEL skills in class.

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Stanford Childrens

MARCH 25, 2024

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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Montessori Physical Education

MAY 14, 2023

And my mom knows something about perseverance, having been a Montessori toddler teacher for over thirty years. The decades-long journey started in the humble beginnings of a small Montessori school in the basement of a church in the Rogers Park area of Chicago. Her coworkers adored her as well. That is quite a legacy.

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Whole Child Sports

MARCH 26, 2020

And perhaps the most socially aware teacher of college women I’ve ever met. This is dreadful news for the tens of thousands of high school athletes who tear their ACL each year. Healthy Sport Index Contest Bound Brook High School is the Aspen Institute’s Healthy Sport Index award winner for high school girls basketball.

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PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2023

No matter what type of school students are enrolled in, children of all ages need physical activity and physical education. The CDC recommends 60 minutes of activity because of the well-documented benefits of physical activity on physical health and mental health. A PLT4M activity dashboard that gives PE teacher insights on activity.

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FACTS Management

MAY 18, 2023

From elementary schools to college campuses, today’s students need education leaders who are invested in their emotional safety. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, nearly 20% of high school students report serious thoughts of suicide and 9% have made an attempt to take their lives. If not, create one.

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PLT4M

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Importance Of Physical Education Lesson Plans Physical education as a subject in school has always battled stereotypes. Unfortunately, many wrongly assume that a pe teacher just “rolls out the ball” for a typical PE class. But as a pe teacher, you don’t have to go at this lofty task alone!

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Physical Education Ideas

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I know we are PE teachers, and we get enough steps in a day, but doing exercise you want to do at your own free leisure is important… maybe more so for mental heath than physical. Keep track of the things your grateful for, the things that worked well and the things that didn’t. Two things that worked well and one thing to improve on.

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PLT4M

JULY 21, 2023

In this article, we set out to provide actionable steps to ensure school districts’ physical education classes serve students’ needs and improve health and wellness. In addition, we offer ideas and insights for physical education teachers looking to enhance a quality program at their schools.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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. Teachers can use this format to discuss other Black athletes such as Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Serena Williams, or Wilma Rudolph.

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PLT4M

JULY 15, 2022

We celebrated the ingenuity of physical education teachers and students to find creative ways to workout at home. We did so, because we knew that exercise’s mental and physical benefits were essential for students’ well-being while living through a pandemic. Then we went back to school.

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Importance of Managing Student Behavior Bad behavior has rippling effects in schools that teachers, school counselors, and administrators all want to address. When a teacher is constantly dealing with a disruptive student or multiple students, they are forced to spend less time providing effective instruction.

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School Yard

JANUARY 7, 2022

Several years ago, I was teaching at a new elementary school and wanted to get my community involved in family fitness events to promote exercising while having fun. Invite parents/ teachers/staff to join in the fitness and running activities as well. is an efficient way to keep track of and organize groups.

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