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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

SHAPE America

My name is Casey Page and I am a physical education teacher in Shelby County, Kentucky, which is a suburb of Louisville. I also coach golf and am an assistant athletic director at our school, but I have always thought of myself as a teacher first. As a PE teacher, you already know the gym gets stolen from you all the time.

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Mike Graham, PE Teacher, Partners with PLT4M

PLT4M

Mike Graham, PE teacher and founder of PE 4 Every Kid, is joining forces with PLT4M to enhance elementary physical education for students and teachers alike. Mike Graham, a dedicated PE teacher and founder of PE 4 Every Kid. The obvious choice? Mike won Elementary P.E.

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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

SHAPE America

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.” Teachers recommended 24 fifth-graders and 24 sixth-graders, who were then split into two groups per grade. At the same time, we had started our first after-school mountain bike club.

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Using the City as Your Physical Education Classroom

SHAPE America

It shows my students the bigger picture: locations, costs and customers who typically have access to these different health and wellness spaces. In partnership with Out r ide , we conducted research on the benefits of cycling for student success and social-emotional well-being. and “What does fitness look like in your neighborhood?”

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Health and Physical Education Leaders Seek Election to SHAPE America Board

SHAPE America

Nilo was a preK-8 PE teacher and coach before going to higher education. Nilo Ramos Nilo Ramos is an assistant professor and program coordinator of physical education at Coastal Carolina University. He has a Ph.D. in kinesiology (sport pedagogy) and an M.S. degree in health and physical education.

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5 Strategies for Using the National Physical Education Standards … and the Benefits of Being a Standards-Based PE Teacher

SHAPE America

I am a National Board Certified elementary physical education teacher with more than 13 years of experience. In 2022, I was honored to be named the SHAPE America National Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year. Any teacher, administrator or parent who enters the gym can see the foundations of what we are working on. #4:

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

SHAPE America

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. More teachers started utilizing mindfulness in their classrooms.

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