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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

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Many schools today have an RTI (Response to Intervention) or WIN (What I Need) class schedule that helps provide intervention, engagement and enrichment activities for students. During that year, I had a well-meaning principal who told our staff, “If it’s not related to math or reading, it’s potentially on the chopping block.”

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Using Ask, Listen, Learn’s Underage Drinking Prevention Curriculum in Your Classroom

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As health educators, it is important to teach our students to be health literate. Health-literate students can understand how their decisions affect their health and well-being and the health and well-being of those around them. Health educators work toward their goal of improving their students’ health literacy every day.

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How to Teach Students About Death in the Health Education Classroom (or Any Classroom)

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When we teach students about death in health education, we can help them understand life, empathy, and resilience. Here are five tips on how to teach students about death in the health education classroom (or any classroom). Preschool) PBS Kids — When a Pet Dies (Elementary School) PBS Kids Go!

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What I’ve Learned About Spreading Kindness in My School — on World Kindness Day and Throughout the Year

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such as teamwork, gratitude, kindness, wellness, and mindfulness. KYSHAPE provides daily slides with prompts, as well as activities and social media posts for each daily theme that administrators, health and physical educators, and other classroom teachers can use. I teach these lessons every day leading up to my health.

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Middle School Health Curriculum

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Middle school health curriculum is critically important because it targets students at a pivotal age when they are developing habits and attitudes that will influence their future health. Challenges Of Middle School Health Curriculum There has never been a sole curriculum or singular approach to health education within schools.

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7 Ways to Turn Health Literacy Month Into a School-Wide Celebration

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What if the entire school and community applauded students for developing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to be health-literate individuals ? As a middle school health and physical education teacher, I know first-hand that initiatives impacting the whole school and surrounding community can be powerful.

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Prevention Education is Health Literacy: How to SHAPE the Conversation

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This will include ways to integrate prevention education into your health classroom, how prevention education intersects with health and wellness, and introduce free resources that are available to you. Know the Facts. Most kids don’t drink. In fact, less than one in five teens report consuming alcohol in the past 30 days.

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