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5 Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in School

SHAPE America

It is, I believe, an essential part of our work as health and physical educators. LGBTQ+ students most commonly avoided school bathrooms, locker rooms, and physical education or gym classes, with approximately 4 in 10 students avoiding each of these spaces because they felt unsafe or uncomfortable (45.1%, 42.6%, and 39.4%

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Top 5 Benefits of Technology in the Classroom For PE

PLT4M

Well, you may say that they didn’t have TikTok and YouTube in 1910. Top 5 Benefits of Using Technology in Physical Education. Learn how physical education departments are benefiting from embracing technology in their classrooms. Technology In The Classroom Doesn’t Apply to Phys Ed Though, Right?

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Adapted Health Education: A discussion with Dr. Maria Lepore-Stevens

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

In addition, she discusses challenges in adapting health education curricula, the lack of inclusive sex ed, the importance of teaching consent and self-advocacy, as well as how inadequate health education fails to provide students with disabilities with a well-rounded education.