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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine. Brain scans show that bouts of aerobic exercise enable students’ brains to activate and be more ready to learn. Teach students how to learn and to love learning. Active and healthy students are better learners.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Art & Activism Are Powerful Partners in Illustrating the Impact of Gun Violence on Our Students

Relentless School Nurse

They were guided in this powerful exercise by their gifted and devoted art teacher, Lisa Wallenburg. Wallenburg has been teaching art in the Camden City School District for more than three decades. Camden, New Jersey, High School students explored the impact of gun violence through the use of art as activism = Artivism.

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Redundancy and Degeneracy in Teaching for Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

These pair of words may sound simplistic and maybe even having negative literal connotations at first, especially if you have never encountered it with relation to learning and probably off-putting to someone who wants to teach better and got no appetite for seemingly obscure concepts.

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Balancing Whole Athlete Development with Talent Development

MSU

The tension between the two approaches arises when the psychological care of the athletes becomes an afterthought when talent development becomes a priority. High–performance environments associated with talent development may not be psychologically safe or can be an afterthought. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology , 33 (3), 302-320.

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Unleashing the Power of Sports Psychology: 8 Powerful Benefits For Athletes

The Sporting

A Guide to Sports Psychology and 8 Important Benefits for Athletes Sports psychology has emerged as a vital field within the realm of athletics. Sports psychology can help enhance performance in all sports, from running to football In this article, we will explore eight key ways in which athletes can benefit from sports psychology.

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Teaching players to pay attention

Learning Through Sport

How then do we coach to teach players to concentrate - metaphorically, to shine an intentional 'spotlight' on the things to attend to? Oliver and Colleagues (2020) proposed that teaching players to understand their attention is teaching them concentrate. McCarthy, P. & Burns, L.

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Evidence Based Practices In Education

PLT4M

” – Vanderbilt University – Special Education Resource Project Long story short, education research leads to research findings that use data and evidence to show the effectiveness of a teaching strategy. All of this isn’t to say that many of the best practices in teaching aren’t backed by educational research.