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Health and Physical Education Leaders Seek Election to SHAPE America Board

SHAPE America

Each year, SHAPE America members vote for candidates to the SHAPE America Board of Directors, which is the organization’s governing body composed of 11 professional members.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Student Survivors are Leading the Way in School Safety

Relentless School Nurse

Have you seen the Public Service Announcement (PSA) by Saugus High School shooting survivor Mia Tretta. Two students, including Mia’s best friend Dominic Blackwell, were killed in the 2019 school shooting, five students were injured.

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My Title IX Story: The Personal Perspective of a Female Athlete and Coach

SHAPE America

In high school, any girl could be part of a “play day” team where we had mixed girls teams from different schools. Thus, the thrill and pride of playing for our school was missing. Girls now have prominent high school, college, professional, and Olympics female athletes to inspire them. Establishing Equity?

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My Title IX Story: Penn State Women’s Soccer

SHAPE America

After high school, I went to Penn State University to major in health and physical education. We played a mostly varsity team schedule and followed the rules of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), which governed women’s collegiate athletics at that time.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

The school also entered teams in after-school and during school time sport opportunities such as the state 'all-school' competitions, and had x2 50 minute lessons of physical education for all students to Year 12 as well as elective PE for senior secondary 'leaving certificate-tertiary admitance score' study. Wretman, C.

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Should Physical Education Be Required?

PLT4M

Authors Note: In recent years, the larger educational community has explored if any subject should be required, especially at the high school level. It empowers elementary school, middle school, and high school students to build up a wide variety of tools to live healthy lifestyles. Piekarz-Porter, et al.

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SRP Announces Classroom Grants of Up to $5,000 for Educators

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Every year, the SRP Classroom Grants Program offers two types of grants: STEM Grants provide up to $5,000 for school projects that incorporate innovative teaching strategies in mathematics and science. Social Science Grants provide up to $2,500 for the disciplines of history, geography, civics, government and economics.