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Politicians! We Need a National Fitness Strategy and a New National Identity!

Physical Education Update

National funds must be set aside to enable our states and provinces and local school boards to provide quality daily physical education led by competent instructors who will instill a love of physical activity and fitness and provide the knowledge and physical tools to enable every student to enjoy a lifelong, healthy lifestyle.

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If They Can Block-Schedule Physical Education, Why Not Lunch?

Physical Education Update

That is, they schedule a child’s PE classes in either the first or second semester instead of providing them throughout the school year. No more so than scheduling physical education every day one semester and omitting it from the timetable the next semester. Exercise is a metabolic activity every bit as much as eating is.

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Meaningful physical education programs and a 'main theme' curriculum model

Learning Through Sport

This question is deeply connected to the question , What is important to learn in physical education in the time available (and to what standard or level of competence) to enable students to continue to pursue being physically active beyond the school gates? Physical activity and fitness orientated physical education.

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Recreational Sports Facilities & Physical Education SAVE Taxpayers’ Money!

Physical Education Update

It’s the typical argument of the ill-informed…the same type of people responsible for declaring physical education to be a frill subject. Physical education and the provision of facilities that encourage physical activity are anything but frills. ” The Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, February 2004.

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Online Learning Institute: Supporting Physical Education and Physical Activity with Native American Students During COVID-19 and Beyond

School Spring Board

Hosted by the Center for Wellness and Nutrition (CWN) in partnership with the California Indian Museum & Cultural Center (CIMCC) and Springboard to Active Schools. Objectives: Understand the physiological and psychological impacts of historical trauma. Below is information and resources from the training.

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Self-Efficacy of PE Teachers to Work with Children with Disabilities

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

In another exciting episode of What's New in APE, we interviewed Lindsey Nowland ( @LindseyNowland), a PhD candidate from Old Dominion University, about her research expertise in adapted physical education (APE), particularly focusing on self-efficacy when teaching students with disabilities in PE settings.

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Sleep Lesson Plans For Students

PLT4M

Integrating sleep education into physical education and health classes is a progressive step towards fostering holistic well-being among students. Incorporating sleep lesson plans into PE and health is also a natural fit. Physical education teacher walks around a class full of students working on a lesson. Skein, M.,