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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. Physical activity defined by Shape is “any bodily movement that results in energy expenditure.” Canton High School in Massachusetts has gone in the opposite direction.

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Strategies for Supporting All Students in Health and Physical Education

SHAPE America

Students with special education needs were at an increased risk of failing health and physical education when compared to their general education peers. I grappled with this for a while because we take it for granted that student needs are accounted for in a movement-based class. Adaptations (e.g.,