SHAPE America's 50 Million Strong by 2029 commitment is an opportunity for health education and physical education teachers to rethink and reimagine their professional future. In 2015, SHAPE America committed to getting America's approximately 50 million school-age students physically active and healthy by 2029. This commitment recognized growing public concern about the negative social, emotional, intellectual, financial, and health consequences of youth inactivity and unhealthy lifestyle choices.

Attendees at the SHAPE America National Convention & Expo in Boston, March 14-18, are invited to participate in the 50 Million Strong by 2029 Forum, which will include a variety of fast-paced, engaging updates, presentations, and roundtable audience discussions on opportunities and challenges facing SHAPE America. This webinar will outline the plan for the Forum, introduce scheduled discussion topics and presenters, and explain how all SHAPE America members can contribute to the development of a road map to advance the health and physical education professions in the 21st century.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Health Teens utilizes the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey to teach essential skills for a healthy life. This webinar will provide health educators with the tools and knowledge to use this book in their classrooms to integrate National Health Education Standards and Common Core English Language Arts Standards.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify health-related skills associated with the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
• Participants will be able to describe how the National Health Education Standards, Common Core English Language Arts Standards, and 7 Habits of Highly Healthy Teens can be used together in a health education classroom.
• Participants will be able to describe how they will implement creative teaching techniques relating to 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens into their own classrooms.

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This package includes these three recorded webinars:

• The How and Why of Implementing a Bullying Prevention Program - recorded Wednesday, October 19, 2011
• School Health Education in the 21st Century - recorded Wednesday, November 16, 2011
• The M2 Generation, Media Messages & Analyzing Health Behaviors - recorded Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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You don't have to go all the way to Capitol Hill for your voice to be heard on the value of health education and physical education in schools. Throughout the year, members of Congress return home from Washington, DC, to their state and district offices to meet with constituents. During this webinar, learn how to conduct "backyard advocacy" meetings in your own state with members of Congress using our backyard advocacy toolkit. It's critical that Congress hears from us about the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act on health and physical education programs in your state and the importance of fully funding this legislation.
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Transgender people are coming out at younger ages and this can pose challenges for schools related to effective education, school policies, pronoun usage and physical education class. This workshop will provide learders with a better understanding of what it means to be transgender and provide concrete examples of how schools can be supportive of and sensitive to the unique needs of transgender students.
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Confident Me! is a one-session and five-session self-esteem program for middle school students that uses skills-based health education and focuses on: challenging unrealistic sociocultural ideals of appearance; media literacy with respect to these ideals; reducing appearance comparisons and appearance conversation; and encouraging body activism and positive behavior change. This webinar will provide more information about this free program to any middle school interested in using it.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will discover information about Confident Me! a one-session and five-session self-esteem program.
• Participants will examine the knowledge and skills within the program.
• Participants will increase their confidence in implementing this free program in their classrooms after having understood the content and goals of the program.
• Participants will identify the Confident Me! implementation incentive program including expenses for SHAPE America's National Convention & Expo covered!

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The Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education webinar series is the companion webinar series to SHAPE America's Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education guidance document. This document articulates best practices in school-based health education in order to support the implementation of effective health education as a critical component of any school system.

Whether you are a veteran educator familiar with the appropriate practices or this is your first introduction to the guidance document, this webinar series provides key insights from the document's authors. In each installment of this webinar series, the authors engage in in-depth discussion on the appropriate practices and provide tangible resources and strategies to educators and stakeholders wishing to implement the outlined appropriate practices in their health education programs.

The practices described in the document and in the webinars are based on evidence relating to effective health education from organizations such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as other current resources. Each webinar in the series can be viewed individually to refine understanding of a particular section of the appropriate practices or as part of the entire series to gain a full, in-depth view of the entire guidance document.

This webinar package includes all 8 webinars in the Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education webinar series:

• Webinar 1: Learning Environment
• Webinar 2: Curriculum, Part I
• Webinar 3: Curriculum, Part II
• Webinar 4: Instructional Strategies, Part I
• Webinar 5: Instructional Strategies, Part II
• Webinar 6: Instructional Strategies, Part III
• Webinar 7: Assessment
• Webinar 8: Advocacy and Professionalism

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Webinar 7 discusses the assessment section of the guidance document, covering appropriate practices D.1 to D.5.

You'll learn to:
• Describe the use of assessment to measure student achievement and monitor student growth objectives
• Describe the use of performance-based and authentic assessment
• Describe how to use data to evaluate the effectiveness of your health program

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Webinar 2: CURRICULUM, PART I The second webinar discusses the curriculum section of the guidance document, covering appropriate practices B.1 to B.10 and focusing on planning goals and objectives.

You'll learn to:
• Describe appropriate planning practices for curriculum in school-based health education.
• Identify the benefits of a planned and sequential health education curriculum.
• Describe the process of writing curriculum goals and objectives aligned with standards and based on data.
• Identify the differences between skills-based health education curriculum and content- driven health education.

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Webinar 3 covers appropriate practices B.11 to B.21, focusing on skills-based curriculum.

You'll learn to:
• Describe key characteristics of a skills-based health education curriculum
• Identify strengths and areas for improvement in your current health education curriculum
• Describe the process of writing curriculum goals and objectives aligned with standards and based on data.
• Implement strategies for improving and/or enhancing your skills-based curriculum

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Webinar 4 discusses the instructional strategies section of the guidance document, covering appropriate practices C.1 to C.3 and focusing on teaching for skill development.

You'll learn to:
• Describe methods for aligning instruction with curricular objectives
• Implement methods to monitor progress toward objectives through formative assessment
• Apply strategies for supporting skill development in the health education classroom.

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Webinar 5 covers appropriate practices C.4 to C.7 and C.11, focusing on student engagement and participatory teaching.

You'll learn to:
• Describe strategies to improve student engagement
• Analyze existing curriculum for relevance to student population
• Identify resources that can help bring curriculum up-to-date
• Advocate to department the need for an updated and relevant curriculum

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Webinar 6 discusses appropriate practices C.8 to C.10, focusing on meeting the needs of all learners.

You'll learn to:
• Describe strategies to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all learners
• Identify different modes of instructional delivery to engage all students
• Discuss how to adjust instruction during lessons to meet the needs of all learners

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The first webinar in the series discusses the learning environment section of the guidance document, covering appropriate practices A.1 A.7.

You'll learn to:
• Describe an appropriate learning environment in school health education.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in current learning environments in your school health classroom
• Elevate your level of health instruction in relationship to the learning environment and be a champion of the information for others.

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Webinar 8 discusses the advocacy and professionalism sections of the guidance document, covering appropriate practices E.1 to E.3 and F.1 to F.3.

You'll learn to:
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in current advocacy initiatives in your school health classrooms, school buildings and districts
• Describe and identify appropriate field-relevant professionalism in school health education
• Elevate your level of professionalism and advocacy for greater impact on school health education

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This webinar is aimed at introducing the audience to the pedagogical model, health-based physical education. The presentation will be divided in two parts: discussing the model from a theoretical perspective (foundations, main elements, etc..), and then giving examples of how to implement the model in any educational context. The goal is to help educators acquire the basics of the model to use it in their classes.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will identify a comprehensive approach to Health-based physical education as a pedagogical model.

Participants will recognize the main features of this pedagogical model.

Participants will summarize a framework to implement a health-based physical education approach in schools.

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Skills-based health education describes an approach to teaching health that emphasizes skill development over knowledge acquisition. Based on the National Health Education Standards, a skills-based approach prepares students to be health-literate consumers and empowers them to apply their learning in ways that maintain or improve their health.

Join us for this webinar that discusses the evolution of the health classroom from a place where students simply learn information about their health to a class that is hands-on and REAL (relevant, engaging, applicable, lifelong skills)!

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to describe the tenets of a skills-based approach to teaching health.

Participants will be able to identify key components of a skills-based approach to teaching health.

Participants will be able to explain the role of skill development in the health education classroom.

Participants will be able to move toward a skills-based approach.

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The ability to self-regulate has been identified as the most important trait for thriving in adolescence. Meditation is a behavior that can help promote the development of self-regulation for youth. This webinar will briefly review emerging research linking meditation and adolescent self-regulation, and will equip health educators with the knowledge and skills needed to help young people begin their own meditation practice.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to describe the role of self-regulation in promoting adolescent health and development.

Participants will be able to describe research findings that demonstrate the ability of meditation to promote self-regulation for adolescents.

Participants will be able to examine practical strategies for helping adolescents learn to meditate.

Participants will be able to create a meditation experience that could be used in either a health or physical education setting.

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Is the goal of school health education to foster the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors or is it to improve knowledge and skills? Is there a difference? Are public health goals being inappropriately applied in school settings? Are health literacy objectives intended to result in behavior change, or not? Presentors will outline their positions and participants will engage in a discussion around these questions.
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This package includes these three recorded webinars:

Sexual Health of Latino Youth: Making Sexuality Education Culturally Appropriate - recorded Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Meeting the Grade: The All New National Sexuality Education Standards - recorded Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Beyond Boys vs. Girls: Transgender Issues for Health Teachers - recorded Wednesday, November 7, 2012

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Implementing a bullying prevention program can be a difficult task. In this workshop you will be guided through key strategies necessary for success. Key aspects will include:

1. Assess bullying at your school and your staff’s commitment to address bullying

2. Learn about good bullying prevention programs

3. If you do not have the resources or staff commitment to fully implement a bullying prevention program at your school, what can you do to address bullying?

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The M2 generation consumes huge amounts of television, Internet, movies, music and music videos. But for all their exposure to mass media, American youth spend little time analyzing media messages. This workshop will discuss media consumption among young people and will discuss the importance of media literacy education.
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You planned a great lesson, but how do you know if your students understand the content and can perform the skill? How do you judge if they are proficient in the performance indicators of your lesson or unit? Formative assessment is assessment for learning; it occurs during instruction and is accompanied by giving effective feedback. Summative assessment is assessment of learning; it occurs at the end of instruction when students demonstrate knowledge of content and skill. In this webinar, you will learn how to use various types of formative assessments and how to construct a summative assessment.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn how to use formative assessment to improve teaching and learning.
• Participants will learn how to interpret group responses to formative assessment vs. individual responses.
• Participants will learn to give effective feedback.

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With classroom time so precious, why not identify student need and target health instruction? In this webinar, you learn to use backward design to plan assessment and instruction based on student need. After analyzing youth risk behavior data, we'll select performance indicators from the National Health Education Standards and infuse them with content. From there, we'll use the power of the indicator verbs to inform assessment and instruction, design a prompt and a challenge, then design an authentic summative assessment. By the end of the webinar, you'll have the framework of a skills-based unit.

Learning Objectives:
• Participants will analyze data to determine student risk behaviors.
• Participants will use infused National Health Education Standards performance indicators to reduce risk behaviors.
• Participants will plan assessment and instruction based on infused performance indicators.
• Participants will design a prompt reflective of infused performance indicators.
• Participants will design a summative assessment.

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SHAPE America's 50 Million Strong by 2029 commitment is an opportunity for health education and physical education teachers to rethink and reimagine their professional future. In 2015, SHAPE America committed to getting America's approximately 50 million school-age students physically active and healthy by 2029. This commitment recognized growing public concern about the negative social, emotional, intellectual, financial, and health consequences of youth inactivity and unhealthy lifestyle choices.

Attendees at the SHAPE America National Convention & Expo in Boston, March 14-18, are invited to participate in the 50 Million Strong by 2029 Forum, which will include a variety of fast-paced, engaging updates, presentations, and roundtable audience discussions on opportunities and challenges facing SHAPE America. This webinar will outline the plan for the Forum, introduce scheduled discussion topics and presenters, and explain how all SHAPE America members can contribute to the development of a road map to advance the health and physical education professions in the 21st century.
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This introductory webinar is the first in a four part series on documenting efficacy as a physical education teacher. Here, you'll discover the 7 practices that help make good teachers great. Topics include lesson and curriculum design and implementation, meaningful evaluation, savvy classroom management and more!
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Bring science into the gym! Learn how to show classroom teachers and administrators that active students are successful students.
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Integrate strength and conditioning into your existing physical education curriculum. Receive specific examples and tips to make your program a success!
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Assessing students in physical education can be a difficult task due to large class size, time restraints and more. This webinar will discuss various tactics to engage students in the assessment process in today's technology-infused world.
Learning Objectives:

• The participants will identify the various ways to assess students in physical education.
• The participants will recognize why assessing authentically is important to their students and program.
• The participants will examine a variety of sample assessments utilizing authentic assessment and technology.
• *Elementary level - working with fundamental movement patterns
• *Secondary level - understanding the students' fitness levels and active engagement
• The participants will discover resources available on the Internet to help enhance their assessment techniques and procedures.

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You don't have to go all the way to Capitol Hill for your voice to be heard on the value of health education and physical education in schools. Throughout the year, members of Congress return home from Washington, DC, to their state and district offices to meet with constituents. During this webinar, learn how to conduct "backyard advocacy" meetings in your own state with members of Congress using our backyard advocacy toolkit. It's critical that Congress hears from us about the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act on health and physical education programs in your state and the importance of fully funding this legislation.
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This is not your grandparent's physical education. Check your preconceptions at the door. The future of physical education is here today with the use of blended learning to teach the skills, knowledge and confidence for a lifetime of physical activity. Discover how forward-thinking physical educators bring physical literacy to life in the real world through relevancy, relationship and rigor. Learn how a balanced kinetic/academic curriculum ignites student engagement through the discovery of "fitness personalities." Find out how to use technology to teach without having to teach technology.
Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to create a balanced kinetic/academic curriculum to increase time for physical activity.
• Learn how schools use technology to teach physical education without having to teach technology.
• Learn how to more effectively meet new teacher evaluation domains.
• Learn how a balanced curriculum makes the waiver a less viable PE alternative.

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This webinar will show participants how to implement the cooperative learning pedagogical model in physical education contexts at both the primary and secondary levels. . The presentation will include two main sections: a discussion of cooperative learning theory (i.e., origins, theoretical framework, basic characteristics, etc.) and practical examples of how to implement the model in educational contexts. Participants will learn how to introduce this pedagogical model into their physical education classes using both the simplest games/tasks and the more demanding techniques.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will gain an understanding of:

• Participants will be introduced to a comprehensive approach to cooperative learning as a pedagogical model.
• Participants will be able to explain the main features of cooperative learning.
• Participants will be provided a step-by-step framework to implement cooperative learning in physical education.

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Are you being asked to incorporate more math into your physical education curriculum? Come learn how kinesthetic teaching strategies can teach physical education skills and improve math skills all at the same time! Learn several techniques for warm-ups, assessments and activities that will work on PE skills, but also allow students to have intentional and vigorous math practice! Learn a kinesthetic approach to teaching and practicing math skills that fits perfectly into PE classes without sacrificing the teaching of SHAPE America's National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will gain an understanding of:

• Participants will be provided with tools to incorporate math in the physical education setting.
• Participants will be provided with specific activities/games that practice math in the physical education setting without taking away from teaching physical education standards and skills.
• Participants will learn specific cross-body movements that students can use to practice specific physical education skills, while simultaneously practicing math skills.
• Participants will discuss ways that PE teachers can be the advocate for movement-based learning in the classroom.

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Say "health textbook" and most people think of words like boring, dated, ineffective and expensive. How unfortunate because no other school subject deals with more topics considered important to students” feelings, challenges, relationships, decisions, etc. What if health education centered around healthy behavior outcomes (HBOs) instead of drugs, sex, and sushi rolls (nutrition). Can health be a cool class? Absolutely! When the educational experience is student-centered instead of subject-center, health education is "all about me." Learn how to ditch the textbook in favor of a peer-driven, (yet teacher facilitated) environment where students embrace healthy behaviors, not simply health information.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify what it means to make health education student-centered and peer-driven (rather than content-centered and teacher-driven).
• Describe what a flipped classroom looks like in health education.
• Discuss how to move health education beyond standards to include healthy behavior outcomes.
• Recognize how to unleash the promise and power of blended learning.

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This webinar is the second in a four part series on documenting efficacy as a physical education teacher. Here, we'll discuss best practices for enhancing the student learning experience, selecting valid and reliable assessment tools, and compiling and reporting relevant information for students, parents, and school administrators.
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This presentation will feature the basic skills necessary to teach and learn Double Dutch rope jumping. Cues for turning the ropes, jumping and teaching beginning jumpers will be discussed. A progression from single long rope to Double Dutch is highlighted, with suggestions on how to teach the skills to various ages, from second graders through adult learners. Double Dutch, besides being an excellent fitness activity, is known for building social skills and confidence.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will become familiarized with basic cues for turning the ropes and jumping during Double Dutch.
• Participants will learn to target and fix main errors for turners and jumpers.
• Participants will identify how Double Dutch related to physical education standards in the three domains (psychomotor, cognitive and affective).
• Participants will gain access to hands-on assessment tools to guide future instruction in more advanced Double Dutch skills.

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Learn practical teaching techniques for embracing diverse settings.
Presenter: Dr. Robert Schmidlein, Manhattanville College
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Are you being asked to incorporate more literacy activities in your physical education curriculum? Are you being asked to work with intervention math or reading groups? Come learn how kinesthetic teaching strategies can teach physical education skills and improve reading skills all at the same time! Learn several techniques for warm-ups, assessments, and activities that will work on PE skills, but also allow students to have intentional and vigorous reading practice! You will also gain valuable skills on how to be an effective intervention teacher using movement-based practices!
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will identify activities and strategies that use movement-based learning to develop and strengthen key literacy skills in and out of the PE setting.
• Participants will select tools and activities to successfully lead literacy and math intervention groups using movement-based strategies
• Participants will identify how Double Dutch related to physical education standards in the three domains (psychomotor, cognitive and affective).
• Participants will recognize the importance of being a champion of movement-based learning in their school.

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This webinar demonstrates how curricula from the content areas of music and physical education can be used together to teach movement to students with and without special needs in a general education setting. This collaborative unit, designed by an elementary music teacher and an elementary physical education teacher, involves students utilizing choreographed and non-choreographed movements and/or dances to folk, multicultural, popular, and instrumental music. The movements used in this collaborative unit focus on beat, form, direction, expression, and spatial awareness.

Learning Objectives:

• Collaborate effectively with colleagues to create a cross-curricular unit.
• Develop and use inclusive teaching practices for students with special needs in the general education setting through dance.
• Foster cooperative learning with elementary students through dance.
• Develop and use teaching strategies for English language learners.

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The Game Stages for Frisbee will be taught in a simple to complex manner. Examples of activities to do in each game stage will be presented, as well as feedback designed to correct main errors. The intended audience is kindergarten through university students and the progress towards freestyle Frisbee, ultimate Frisbee and Frisbee golf.
Learning Objectives:

• Learn physical skills needed to move from simple to complex Frisbee situations.
• Learn movements associated with Frisbee golf, ultimate Frisbee and freestyle Frisbee.
• Understand key concepts associated with control of the Frisbee through modified or actual game play.
• Integrate Frisbee into a healthy lifestyle.

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In this webinar, we will be sharing the ways in which a comprehensive school physical activity program can be tied to an overall theme and turned into a game, as well as exploring the benefits to this approach.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will explore the different parts of a CSPAP and see how they can be connected by an overall theme and incentivized by becoming part of a game.
• Participants will examine the benefits of this approach in creating buy-in and generating enthusiasm among students and teachers.
• Participants will be introduced to some of the many free and low-cost resources available through Active Schools to help schools increase physical activity and will see how they have been woven into a game.
• Participants will consider the benefits of using a theme to help in the creation of a vision or roadmap for their CSPAP and the ways that this can be helpful in figuring out which resources to ask for and which grants might be most helpful.

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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replaces No Child Left Behind and opens new funding opportunities for school health and physical education. This webinar will give you insight into this federal education legislation and will highlight key advocacy resources to help you prepare for implementation in your state and school district.
Participants will:

• Learn "what is ESSA?"
• Learn about SHAPE America's advocacy activities related to ESSA over the past seven years and understand some of the consequences of No Child Left Behind.
• Understand how school health and physical education are addressed in ESSA and what funding will be available for these subjects.
• Find out how to advocate for school health and physical education funding in their state or school district through ESSA.
• Access SHAPE America's ESSA resources and learn how to get involved in our annual SPEAK Out! Day.

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Take your school or district to the next level! Learn how Let's Move! Active Schools and its signature professional development offering - the Physical Activity Leader (PAL) Learning System - can elevate the role of health and physical educators in their school communities. In this webinar, we'll share tips on activating Let's Move! Active Schools in your individual school environment and how to bring a PAL training to you at no cost.
Learning Objectives:

• Explore the full lineup of Let's Move! Active Schools activation tools, including grants, discounts, incentives, our robust resource library, technical assistance and professional development opportunities tailored to your needs.
• Find out why the PAL Learning System is a valuable asset to your career and your school community, and dig deeper into the FREE one-day, in-person leadership workshop and the full 12-month PAL journey.
• Learn how your school can achieve the 2016 Let's Move! Active Schools National Award - the nation's top physical activity and physical education award for K-12 schools.

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This webinar will provide an overview of the standards-based instructional design process. The relationship between physical literacy, the physical education standards and student learning will be discussed and then participants will be guided through an easy to follow 5-step model for designing standards-based lessons and learning sequences. A lesson will be shared to allow participants to see how the theory of standards-based instruction is applied to practice.
Participants will:

• Be able to describe the relationship between physical literacy, the physical education standards, and student learning
• Learn how to unpack a standard
• Learn how to align assessment and instruction to the standard
• Use the 5-step model as a template for designing their own standards-based lessons and learning sequences

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Pre-service teachers benefit from field experiences teaching real classes. This presentation is for professors, pre-service teachers, and cooperating teachers hosting a student who want to experience a rich, realistic and positive experience. We will examine the learning experience of pre-service teachers through a qualitative lens with observations, anecdotal evidence and discussion/reflection. .
Participants will:

• Identify the benefits and hindrances of implementing a field experience.
• Summarize the trends that emerge from field experiences.
• Exam issues of management and instruction.
• Outline the exchange between professor/teacher and students in a methods course as they engage in a realistic learning experience.

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In an always changing educational climate, Physical Educators must stay current and in-tune with the future of our field. As PE advocacy still faces many challenges, PE programs can no longer stand alone, segregated from the rest of the school. Physical education teachers must actively bridge the gap between the gymnasium and the classroom. The purpose of this webinar is to prepare physical educators to teach with an interdisciplinary approach, advocate for and strengthen their PE program, and as a result, positively impact and increase student learning.

• Participants will identify strategies to advocate for their physical education program and further establish PE as a necessary subject that contributes to a student's well-rounded education.
• Participants will recognize strategies to bridge the gap between the gymnasium and other core subjects through planning and teaching interdisciplinary PE lessons.
• Participants will locate resources and examples for implementing interdisciplinary PE, including information on curriculum design (unit planning, alignment, models for integrating with other subjects, etc.).
• Participants will discuss how they about this topic and engage in a productive dialogue to hear and learn from others.

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This webinar is the third in a four part series on documenting efficacy as a physical education teacher. Join us for an in depth discussion on the various data collection processes used to assess knowledge and skill development in the physical education classroom. Be sure to register for the fourth and final webinar in the series to learn more about next steps and making the most of the data you obtain.
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This webinar concludes our 4 part series on documenting efficacy as a physical education teacher. Previously we discussed the strategies available for collecting data to assess knowledge and skill development in the physical education classroom. Here, we'll focus on next steps as well as strategies for utilizing and communicating data with students, teachers, parents, and administrators.
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This 4 part recorded series takes an aerial approach to teacher efficacy by looking at all of the factors that contribute to teacher, and ultimately student, success. Topics include: effective teaching behaviors; incorporating standards and best practices into your curriculum; simplified strategies for assessing student knowledge and skill development; and using evaluation data in a meaningful way for teachers and students that will ultimately enhance your clout in the eyes of parents and administrators.

This package includes these four recorded webinars:

7 Steps to Boost Teacher Effectiveness in Physical Education - Recorded Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Documenting Your Impact on Student Learning - Recorded Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Measuring Progress & Performance: How to Seamlessly Manage the Data Collection Process for Evaluation in Physical Education - Recorded Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Measuring Progress & Performance: How to Produce Meaningful Results for Students, Parents and Administrators - Recorded Tuesday, April 9, 2013

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This 4 part recorded series takes an aerial approach to teacher efficacy by looking at all of the factors that contribute to teacher, and ultimately student, success. Topics include: effective teaching behaviors; incorporating standards and best practices into your curriculum; simplified strategies for assessing student knowledge and skill development; and using evaluation data in a meaningful way for teachers and students that will ultimately enhance your clout in the eyes of parents and administrators.

This package includes these three recorded webinars:

Embracing Differences in Diverse Settings - recorded Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Adding Muscle to Your PE Program - recorded Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Active Students = Successful Students - recorded Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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Get your mobile devices ready and join the webinar! You'll get ready-to-use examples, ideas and technology applications for your primary or secondary school gymnasium, or university methods classroom. Learn ideas to assess, engage and turn your class into something grandma wouldn't recognize! Twitter users: Follow the feed at #PhysEdTech when conversations with the group become active! Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn about mobile technologies to use for teacher, peer or self-assessment (i.e., Plickers, Quick Response (QR) Codes, Padlet).
• Participants will learn about specific features of Google Drive and the benefits of sharing documents with other professionals.
• Participants will acquire the knowledge to develop promotional items for their schools or classes or to use as a class (i.e., iMovie, Periscope).
• Participants will understand the role of social media and how it can be used in a variety of modalities for teaching, learning and advocating (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, Voxer).
• Participants will understand the role of the physical educator and learn how to follow the SHAPE America National Standards using technology (i.e., Explain Everything, video tutorials).

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This webinar addresses the needs and benefits of utilizing movement to prepare the brain for learning and provides participants with information about the components of a physically active school, why schools should provide physical activity programs, and the physical and cognitive benefits for students who participate in such a program. Presenters provide classroom strategies and activities that reinforce classroom concepts, Common Core State Standards and 21st century learning skills that stimulate the brain in preparation for learning. Join the PASS movement to educate our students on the many benefits of living a physically active lifestyle. Let's get moving together!
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will receive research-based evidence and information that can be disseminated to students, faculty/staff, administrators, parents and community leaders about the importance of becoming a Physically Active School System.
• Participants will learn how to complete a needs assessment and create an action plan to begin the implementation of PASS.
• Participants will learn the importance of making connections between mind and body.
• Participants will learn why exercise improves learning and how to lead students through research-based and classroom-tested exercises that result in academic competency.
• Participants will learn how to use academic content and movement to help students meet the Common Core State Standards and increase academic performance.

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In this webinar, ideas, strategies and specific programs for increasing physical activity and physical literacy, and developing health-related school and community involvement will be discussed. This session will be divided into three segments: classroom activity breaks and programs; school wide special events; and family/community involvement beyond the school day. Specific programs include, but are not limited to, PE Packs to Go, Moving Across America, developing a PE website, Project ACES, Fitness Frankie and Friends, and Jump Rope for Heart. Participants will receive resources to begin similar programs in their schools.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to develop a classroom-based program that increases physical activity during the school day.
• Participants will be able to develop a school-wide program that increases activity and promotes the importance of health and physical fitness.
• Participants will be able to develop a program that encourages parents to increase physical activity at home.
• Participants will be able to increase school-wide physical literacy as a result of programs targeting physical education knowledge and concepts.

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Rock climbing has the power to positively impact the physical fitness of K-12 students of varying interests, abilities and fitness levels. This webinar will show how this appealing, non-traditional lifetime sport impacts the psychomotor, affective and cognitive learning domains and develops five aspects of physical fitness: strength, muscle endurance, balance, flexibility and cardiovascular endurance. In addition to being part of a quality physical education program, climbing can be included in before- and after-school programming and integrated into classroom lessons, and can involve staff and families.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn how rock climbing aligns with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education and contributes to the development of five aspects of physical fitness: strength, muscle endurance, balance, flexibility and cardiovascular endurance.
• Participants will be presented with research that supports rock climbing as a moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
• Participants will understand how climbing impacts all learning domains: psychomotor, affective and cognitive.
• Participants will discover how climbing can be differentiated for youth of varying ages, abilities and fitness levels.
• Participants will receive examples of how a rock climbing program can help accomplish the goals of a comprehensive school physical activity program (CSPAP).

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Here's what others have said about this webinar:

"Judy LoBianco's webinar was outstanding. She literally had us jumping out of our seats! Judy provided plenty of tips and ideas as a successful teacher of children and administrator of quality PE & Health programs."

"I loved hearing so many great ideas for advocating for our programs and how we can reach out to stakeholders." Ellen Abbadessa, M.Ed.

"I loved Judy's perspective from the fact that she is a supervisor working with a large and diverse staff."

"The best part of the webinar was the enthusiasm and real-life experience of the presenter with specific examples."

If your physical education program is in danger of being cut or you want to find ways to exemplify your quality program then this practical webinar is perfect for you.

This webinar is presented by Judy LoBianco Supervisor of Health, Physical Education and Nursing Services for the South Orange-Maplewood School District in the state of New Jersey.

Get advice and tips on what you can do for yourself, in your school and in the community to save your quality physical education program during this hour long webinar. The webinar includes take home materials as well.

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This hands-on webinar is designed to show how these types of resources can be of great help in any educational or recreational context. The webinar will divided into two parts: the first will include a brief overview of the topic with information on the theoretical foundations of this approach, while the second one will show practical applications of ready-to-use materials. Attendants will find that these resources can be easily made and used in diverse contexts to achieve different goals. These materials foster students' creativity, empower and motivate them, but more importantly, they are fun to construct and use.
Learning Objectives:

• Provide a comprehensive approach to self-made materials as valuable learning tools
• Explain how self-made materials can be used in many different educational and recreational contexts
• Provide practical examples of how to construct ready-to-use self-made resources

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Learn how standards-based grading (SBG) provides an accurate picture of what a student has learned and still needs to learn. SBG provides a more accurate understanding of student academic achievement by measuring what a student knows and is able to do.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will explore the differences between a traditional grading system and standards-based reporting.
• Participants will establish a clear link between standards-based instruction and standards-based reporting.
• Participants will be introduced to the SHAPE America progress report template.
• Participants will address shifts in reporting progress of student proficiency.
• Participants will explore suggestions for implementation of a standards-based progress report.

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Every educator is an advocate. While ESSA identifies physical education as part of a well-rounded education, the erosion of genuine physical education continues due to credit flexibility options such as waivers and online classes. Every school district has had or will have discussions regarding credit flexibility alternatives to traditional PE. It's time to bust the myths. Now is the time to preemptively and proactively take the discussion in a new direction. Embracing the inevitability of credit flexibility options opens the door to collaborative discussion. Speak up to demonstrate why physical education is also high stakes education. If you don't, who will?
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn how to take a leadership approach to advocating for responsible school district policy.
• Participants will learn how to address the rationale used to justify credit flexibility options.
• Participants will gain insight into the decision-making process used by school policymakers when agreeing to accept credit flexibility options.

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Want to make a huge impact on your students' lives and include interdisciplinary lessons in your physical education classes? Try using a Student Sportfolio. This webinar describes how an elementary school PE teacher adapted her lessons to teach her students to be college- and career-ready by utilizing a Student Sportfolio that combines PE curriculum, academics and cooperative learning to create a powerful physical education program. Math, English language arts, history and science Sportfolio examples will be included in this presentation.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to enhance learning and student responsibility with the Student Sportfolio.
• Participants will learn to authentically implement academics in physical education.
• Participants will be able to enable students to be productive citizens as they prepare to be college- or career-ready.
• Participants will work on increasing teamwork while teaching through cooperative learning.

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Tabata: This 4-minute interval approach of Olympians has revolutionized our entire district! This webinar will focus on how this vigorous use of physical movement can be implemented in any learning environment, including the physical education setting and as classroom brain breaks. The unique and powerful music we have designed for Tabata has caught like wild fire since presenting at the last two SHAPE America National Convention & Expos in St. Louis and Seattle when Tabata was "one of the most highly rated sessions of the entire convention!"
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will increase knowledge of the efficacy of High Intensity Interval Training for fitness capacity enhancement.
• Participants will gain an understanding of how to implement the Tabata protocol in the PE setting.
• Participants will learn to use Tabata resources to advocate for increased physical movement in academic settings.
• Participants will design a Tabata routine or workout for their specific teaching environment.

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"Take home fitness kits" are a tool that elementary physical educators can use to connect with students individually, as well as provide valuable home-school connections with families. These kits include a "fitness friend," a book, a journal and a packet of fitness information for families. With the new emphasis on the Common Core, this program also provides a way to introduce reading and writing into the PE curriculum without using valuable class time.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be introduced to the history and the use of take home fitness kits in elementary physical education.
• Participants will explore the many benefits of take home fitness kits, including how they can be incorporated into your annual teacher evaluation documents.
• Participants will learn the steps involved in creating a take home fitness kit and how to adopt take home fitness kits into their program.

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This webinar shares examples of lessons, units, and assessments for social, cultural and creative dance that are developmentally appropriate for K-5 students. Strategies for teaching dance using technology and how to integrate content from other subjects will be included.
Learning Objectives:

• Address how dance contributes to children's fitness and motor skill development and their social and cognitive skills.
• Demonstrate sample dance units and lessons focused on social, cultural, or creative dance.
• Share a variety of assessment tools that can be implemented for teacher, peer, and student self-assessment.

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This webinar presents strategies for developing a social dance unit that represents current and historical dances, teaches basis steps used in a variety of dances, applies technology, and provides opportunities for students to create their own dances. Sample psychomotor, cognitive and affective assessments are included.
Learning Objectives:

• Address how dance contributes to students' fitness and motor skill development and their collaboration and creative thinking skills.
• Demonstrate a sample social dance unit and how the unit is organized in a sequence of individual lessons.
• Share a variety of assessment tools that can be implemented for teacher, peer, and student self-assessment.

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Technology can be used in a variety of ways to enhance student learning and success, and can be a motivating force to keep students moving and engaged in physical education. In this webinar, we will discuss specific technologies and their application to elementary physical education, including pedometers, heart rate monitors, Plickers, Google Forms, videotaping for assessment, and the use of iPads by teachers and students. Specific examples and resources will be shared.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn that technology use can provide motivation to increase physical activity and specific technologies can provide alternatives to sedentary use of technology.
• Participants will learn how to implement at least three lessons using heart rate monitors and pedometers at the elementary level.
• Participants will learn at least three iPad applications used by the teacher that will facilitate learning.
• Participants will learn at least three iPad applications used by students that will facilitate movement and improve physical fitness.
• Participants will learn how to use Plickers and videotaping applications for assessment of student learning and skill acquisition.

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The Student Progression Model of PhysEd Instruction was developed over several years of team teaching and professional collaboration with some fantastic colleagues. It has completely changed the way I teach! The model differentiates the instruction by allowing those that have a good grasp of the skill to move on while recognizing those that need additional practice. The instruction is standards-based and focused on authentic skill development in each student. In fact, the assessments are used as motivators and allow the students to communicate to the teacher what they know and where they need assistance.
Learning Objectives:

• The learner will be introduced to the Student Progression Model of Instruction (SPMI).
• The learner will explore how to develop units of instruction based on the SPMI.
• The learner will explore how to manage instruction while implementing the SPMI.
• The learner will explore how to motivate students through assessment and how to use the results of those assessments to inform their instruction.

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Are you collecting data to show student learning? Regardless of what your state calls the initiative, you are being asked to identify goals for student learning, determine logical assessment procedures, share your results and discuss next steps. "Action research" is a form of practitioner-based research that offers guidance for all of the above steps. The goal of this webinar is to advocate teacher use of action research to: (a) connect practice and theory; (b) improve quality of assessments; and (c) rethink the teacher evaluation process. Teachers will gain insight into steps for getting started with both individual and cooperative action research.
Learning Objectives:

• Empower teachers to use action research as a way to approach planning for, collecting, and presenting data about changes in student learning.
• Outline steps to success for getting started with individual and cooperative action research.
• Provide examples of trends in and opportunities for teacher research in schools.
• Identify resources that support teacher communities of practice that investigate together and/or talk about results of their work as teachers.

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This webinar will focus on curriculum for elementary physical education and the selection of that content. It will discuss the differences between activities and skill acquisition within curriculum, the differences between a “busy, happy, good” curriculum and teaching for student growth in physical education. It will lead the participant into the design of curriculum with deliberate practice, feedback, etc. for student learning, and will also include a microscope for evaluating activities before selecting them for physical education. With reference to the grade-level outcomes within SHAPE America’s National Standards, participants will develop the strategy for matching outcomes to the reality of teaching environments.
Learning Objectives:

• Participants will identify SHAPE America's National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes as a working model for the development of elementary physical education curriculum.
• Participants will differentiate between "activities for activity" and activities for skill acquisition and student learning.
• Participants will recognize the criteria for evaluation and selection of curriculum content.

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