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Project ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously) takes place on the first Wednesday in May as part of National PE & Sport Week and National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. It’s an opportunity to highlight your PE program and exercise with millions of kids around the
world. The 36th annual global event will occur at 10 a.m. local time on Wednesday, May 1. LEARN MORE
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NDSU’s Master’s in Leadership in Physical Education and Sport is delivered 100% online asynchronously (global applicants welcome)! Degree completion requires 30 total credits (9 required and 21 elective) and is extremely affordable ($14,600; all tuition and fees included)! Applicants are reviewed on a rolling basis and may start any semester!
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SHAPE America’s 2024 Summer Institute — Teaching HPE in a Changing World — features Headline Presenters who will lead all-new physical activity, health education and physical education sessions based on the SHAPE America National Physical Education Standards and National Health Education Standards, including indicators and progressions. Join us in Minneapolis, July 29-30, to get lessons, ideas and student engagement strategies — all based on the new national standards. LEARN MORE
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Dr. Robert Pangrazi, a lifelong PE advocate and author of Dynamic Physical Education, shares an online master class course in teaching PE. This course includes 6 hours of teaching instruction, classroom management video examples, module reflection questions, and complete PowerPoint presentations. A great solution to meet your individual or district professional development needs!
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SHAPE America’s new book, National Physical Education Standards, Fourth Edition, is the go-to book for all physical education teachers, providing the framework for creating curricula, designing lesson plans, and developing assessments. The text unveils the revised standards and new grade-span learning indicators, offers practical guidelines for implementation and assessment, and advances the idea that physical education means equity, access and inclusion for all. LEARN MORE
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SHAPE America’s new book, National Health Education Standards, Third Edition, empowers preK-12 health educators to develop high-quality health education programs that improve outcomes for students, providing them with skills for lifelong health and well-being. The text unveils the revised standards and performance indicators, offers guidelines for implementation and assessment, and advances the idea that health education means equity, access and inclusion for all. LEARN MORE
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FREE PD courses focused on important health-related topics for teens and tweens. Take one or all in FDA’s Science and Our Food Supply series: Nutrition, Dietary Supplements, Agricultural Biotechnology. Food Safety available in summer 2024. Earn one CEU per course. Approximate time investment: 10 hours. For information and registration, click HERE.
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Get more tips for celebrating National PE & Sport week from these SHAPE America guest authors:
In celebration of National PE & Sport week, here are three new episodes of Unplugged, with SHAPE America CEO Stephanie Morris:
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Kristen Dieffenbach — Center for Applied Coaching and Sport Sciences at West Virginia University & Chair of the Sport Steering Committee for the National Physical Activity Alliance
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Betsy Shoenfelt — Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP)
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Andrew Nash — Washington Capitals Youth Hockey Development Program
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7 Strategies to Help Overwhelmed Students
Edutopia
Some students develop anxiety about assignments, but there are ways teachers can help them cope with these feelings. When students are overwhelmed by cognitive tasks, their stress response systems will move into survival states (fight, flight, or shut down) where they are literally unable to access the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex is the area of the brain where our executive functions live and can be activated.
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SRU After-School Program Helps Children With Special Needs Get Active
Slippery Rock University News
An after-school, physical activity program hosted at Slippery Rock University is breaking barriers for children with special needs and simultaneously providing experiential learning opportunities for SRU students. Jacob Brush, a senior health and physical education major from Murrysville, was ready to drop out of college three years ago and become a certified personal trainer. At the time, he was taking an Introduction to Adapted Physical Activity class and was asked to volunteer for Kids In Action. He agreed to try it for four weeks. Something clicked.
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Cooling Therapy Reduces Youth Concussion Symptoms, Suggests Akron Children’s Study
Cleveland.com
A study led by Akron Children’s Hospital researchers suggests that cooling the head and neck after mild brain injuries reduces concussion symptoms. The study was recently published in the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. It is one of the first concussion treatment studies of this population, and one of the largest single concussion therapy trials known to date.
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