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Simle Middle School Raises $3,000 with health. moves. minds. Event. Here’s How!
Mission – Promote, Support, and Participate in Quality Physical Education. Quality Physical education is provided every class period to students. We enhance students’ lives and provide them opportunities and education to become physically literate individuals for the rest of their lives. We select the month of March and the March Madness theme to extra emphasize and promote the importance and need for quality physical education.
15 Spook-Tacular PE Games
As we approach the spookiest time of the year, bring some Halloween magic to your gym class! We’ve brewed up a list of Halloween-themed physical education games and exercises that will have your students howling with excitement. From witch broomstick relays to haunted header soccer challenges, these activities are sure to make your PE lessons a ghoulishly good time.
Fundraising Blueprint: How Wyoming School Raised $2,500 with health. moves. minds.®
*health. moves. minds.® is a fundraising program where 50% of funds raised go back to your school! Get started with your event by completing this short interest form. Harrison Elementary PE teacher and health. moves. minds.® team champion, Briana Fuller, hosted a fundraising event for her school this past year. Her school raised over $2,500! 25% of those funds raised went to her school’s PTO and another 25% went towards her PE program in the form of a Gopher gift card.
Superheroes Unite to Raise $2.5K+ with health. moves. minds. Here’s How They Did It!
What is health.moves.minds.? The health. moves. minds.® fundraiser brings together the lessons, activities, and community-building ideas that help students live their best life. Physical Educators hold an event to fundraise for the national SHAPE America Organization, their state SHAPE Organization, and a choice of taking 50% of the funds raised to grow their Physical Education equipment or dividing the 50% and pledging 25% of the funds raised to a local non-profit.
The Purpose of Introductory Activities [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
Aaron Beighle Aaron is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion at the University of Kentucky. He is a trainer for physical education faculty, after-school staff, early child care staff and youth sport coaches and has co-authored several national documents including CDC's Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool and NASPE's Comprehensive School Physical Activity Promotion: A Position Statement.
Leave Yourself Behind; Join the Team [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
The other day I saw a poster and it said leave yourself behind join the team. That might be something we want to think about telling our students as we start to pull them together on the team of their PE class.
Actively Review Content with Bingo! [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
Jessica Shawley Jessica is a Health & Physical Education Teacher in Lewiston, Idaho. She is a SHAPE America National Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year and a National Board Certified Teacher. Jessica is a part of SHAPE America's Physical Education Council and has also served SHAPE Idaho & the Northwest District in several leadership capacities. Her professional engagement also includes providing professional development workshops, writing blogs and podcasting.
A Q&A with OMNIKIN's Scott Williams! – Gopher PE Blog
Listen to the episode below! A Q&A with OMNIKIN® U.S. Coordinator, Scott Williams: [0:23] Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got introduced to OMNIKIN®? [0:27] I taught elementary physical education for 15 years before leaving in 2019 to run my own summer camp business. I also taught high school physical education in summer school for five years and I was introduced to OMNIKIN® probably the first year I moved down here to Charlottesville, Virginia.
How to Become a PE Presenter [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
Chris Nichols Chris has been a Physical Educator for 25 years in Texas. He has been recognized as a district finalist for Teacher of the Year and formerly served as the Early Childhood Chair Elect for the Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (TAHPERD).
7 Steps to Curriculum Planning in Physical Education [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
[0:02] An effective in quality physical education program’s origin story starts in part with a well-thought-out and planned curriculum based upon student needs and desires. It is critical to provide our students with the best possible learning environment. [0:47] Welcome back to school everyone. I’m Collin Brooks and I’m an assistant professor at the University of West Georgia.
We're Back! Creating a Positive Learning Environment [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
[0:02] I just want to take a few minutes and talk about how to create a learning environment, and I’m not talking about classroom management. I’ve done other blogs and other podcasts that you can find on Gopher’s website, but I just want to make two quick points. The points I want to talk about is getting to know your students and how to do that, and establishing your rules and class values, and how to do that. [0:41] To get to know your students, make relationships a priority.
What is Physical Education? – Gopher PE Blog
[0:02] Let’s start by asking a basic question today, what is physical education? Is it just about keeping kids busy, happy, and good? More in a minute. [0:33] I’m gonna start you thinking by reading a quote to you and this quote is from a paper written by George Graham, one of my favorite educators who wrote this back in 2015, “Physical education teachers have the task of turning kids onto physical activity for a lifetime.
2 Quick and Easy Icebreakers for the 2021-22 School Year [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
[0:03] Hello everybody and welcome back to school, I am so excited to get back at it again, and I don’t know about you but I am super excited to get these kids back in the gym laughing and connecting with their friends and most importantly, moving again.
Project-Based Learning and Physical Education: An interview with Jordan Manley [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
[0:02] Aaron: Project-based learning, it seems to be all the buzz and education, but what is it really and how does it fit with physical education? [0:35] Jordan: I am with Jordan Manley from the Steam Academy in Lexington Kentucky today, and I want to just introduce Jordan and talk a little bit about his PE Program, Jordan tell us a little bit about yourself. [0:46] Well, I’m a Lexington Kentucky native, 29 years old, been married for five years and I have a 19-month-old daughter at home.
Join the PE Search and Rescue Team [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
“Search for the good in our students and rescue those who need help.” [0:02] Join the PE search and rescue team. At the end of this Huddle, you’ll know why I want you to join! [0:28] Recently, I drove by a Planet Fitness Gym and Fitness Club, and it had a large 20 ft sign on the front of the building that said, “Welcome to the Judgement Free Zone”. I immediately thought of physical education classes opening the school year on a positive note.
6 Ways to Make Your PE Program More Visible [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
[0:02] On today’s podcast, I want to give you some quick tips for promoting all the things that you do within your PE Program, and I want to share some things that I do to advocate for physical education at my school. How to be your own PR team [0:45] I learned early on in my career that if you want people around you to value what it is that you bring to the table and what you do for kids, then you have to be visible. And by that, I mean no one’s gonna miss you if they don’t know you’re there.
Dynamic PE: From Textbook to Website [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
[0:02] So what’s the connection between the Dynamic Physical Education textbooks and the DynamicPEASAP.com website. Hang tight and I’ll fill you in. [0:38] The Dynamic Physical Education program, curriculum, philosophy, variety of other terms that could be used, has been around since the 1960s and before I go any further talking about this, I want to be crystal clear that this program is built on the shoulders of Dr. Victor P.
How to Find PE Grants for Schools – Gopher PE Blog
Jessica Shawley Jessica is a Health & Physical Education Teacher in Lewiston, Idaho. She is a SHAPE America National Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year and a National Board Certified Teacher. Jessica is a part of SHAPE America's Physical Education Council and has also served SHAPE Idaho & the Northwest District in several leadership capacities. Her professional engagement also includes providing professional development workshops, writing blogs and podcasting.
SHAPE America's School Re-Entry Considerations & Other Resources [Interactive] – Gopher PE Blog
In this episode, Jessica gives an overview of the school re-entry considerations SHAPE America recently released as a support for teachers as they prepare for re-entry this fall during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jessica also shares other resources and tools teachers may find it useful to support student learning and teacher preparation.
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