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13 Tips to Help You Advocate for Health & PE

SHAPE America

Many HPE teachers and supporters struggle with finding ways to advocate at the local, state and national level. Strains of marginalization continue to exist, and the call for teachers and teacher educators to serve as policy actors is critical. Prior to higher education, Lisa taught elementary PE in Hutchinson, MN.

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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. Nilo was a preK-8 PE teacher and coach before going to higher education. He has a Ph.D. in kinesiology (sport pedagogy) and an M.S.

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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.

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Stand for something

Drowning in the Shallow

Can PE (the school subject) do this by itself? Firstly it takes a society to physically educate a child – parents, teachers, schools, youth sports clubs, government departments, public health, … Continue reading Stand for something → What is the purpose of a physical education? No, I don’t think so.

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Free resources for Physical Education (PE) teachers

PE Scholar

The following free-to-access resources produced by National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of sport are potentially of great use to physical education

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Can Physical Education Unite a War-Torn Country?

Physical Education Update

Rather than firing PE teachers and cutting PE from school curricula, Uganda’s ministry for education has announced that they’ll be recruiting 3600 new physical education teachers over the next two years. Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com To check out the PE Update.com website, Click Here!

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Redundancy and Degeneracy in Teaching for Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

The words sort of represent a short cut for me to understand much of what is sometimes said about skill acquisition and learning in PE. To me, these words points to the reason for thriving and successful ecological (living things and PE for us) and artificial systems (the wonderful technology out there).