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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

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I also coach golf and am an assistant athletic director at our school, but I have always thought of myself as a teacher first. In March 2024, I was lucky enough to be named the 2024 SHAPE America National High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year! No student should ever graduate high school without knowing how to swim.

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Using the City as Your Physical Education Classroom

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at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., Our bikes became tools for community service, whether it was cleaning up litter at Ridge Road Recreation or handing out water to protesters at Black Lives Matter Plaza. The bell rings at 9 a.m. and as students slowly file into the gym, curiosity fills the air.

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How Professional Associations Have Made Me a Better Health and Physical Education Teacher and Leader

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Four years of college had gone by faster than I could blink my eyes and then I was back in high school — now responsible for the education of students who were only four to seven years younger than me. When I began my teaching career in 2007, I was 22 years old. I was scared out of my mind.

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Fun Winter Activities for Elementary PE

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Additional Resources 5 Tips for Teaching Physical Education Without a Gym Fishin’ for Change: Combining Physical Education and Outdoor Recreation Heather Burd Heather Burd, the 2021 Minnesota Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year, is in her eighth year of teaching in the Win-E-Mac school district in her hometown of Erskine, MN.

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

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There were no recreational teams for young girls. In high school, any girl could be part of a “play day” team where we had mixed girls teams from different schools. The title of my dissertation was “Guidelines for Establishing Equitable Interscholastic Athletic Programs for Boys and Girls in Public High Schools.”.

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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

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The next seven stages include general skill development, athleticism, and enjoyment of sport, leading to continued participation throughout the lifespan (either in recreational sport or following the elite performance pathway). This is an essential stage that provides the building blocks for the following stages.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

While recreation sport in curriculum time didn't feature in any of the schools I worked in, when I started my teaching career in the late 1980s, in many jurisdictions school sport was still in curriculum time. Wretman (2017) found participation in school sport had a significant standardised effect on academic achievement.

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