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After more than 30 years of teaching, researching, working with teachers and families, and running sports camps, Lauren Lieberman has learned a great deal about including students who are visually impaired into physical education. In this recent blog post, Lieberman shares her top 5 tips, as well as an extensive list of resources for health and physical educators. READ MORE
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Earn a Master's degree in Physical Education from an accredited and affordable university. The University of Nebraska at Kearney is a top choice when it comes to graduate education programs by U.S. News & World Report. Receive the same on-campus degree completely online.
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SHAPE America’s inaugural Professional Learning Institute will be held July 31-August 1 in Sioux Falls, SD. The theme of the event is Exploring the Mind-Body Connection: Social and Emotional Learning in HPE. If you would like to share your knowledge and expertise on teaching SEL in the health, physical education or physical activity setting, submit your proposal
by February 22. LEARN MORE
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If you are interested in starting or enriching a school-based employee wellness program, check out the resources now available on the SHAPE America website, including assessment, planning and evaluation tools! LEARN MORE
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Experts point to meal planning with potatoes for peak performance
With demanding training regimens, athletes are in constant need of carbohydrate. In fact, athletes need about 1 gram of carbohydrate per minute of endurance exercise1,2. To get the necessary nutrients – like carbohydrate, meal prep is an increasingly popular solution for athletes. It’s quick and easy to prepare batch amounts of meal components for easy meal assembly and enjoyment all week-long. “Without question, potatoes are my favorite—and my athletes’ favorite—base for meal prep,” says Allen Tran, MS, RD, CSSD, high-performance dietitian and chef for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard teams. That’s because potatoes contain the carbohydrate, potassium and energy athletes need to perform at their best. Tran shows athletes of all kinds how to meal prep like a pro with his newly released five-part video series, “Meal Prep with Potatoes!” Watch
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SHAPE America is currently seeking volunteers to serve on a task force which will develop a research-based position statement supporting comprehensive, medically accurate and inclusive sexuality education. If interested, submit the Get Involved Application Form by February 25.
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Video Game Helps Curb Youth Smoking
The smokeSCREEN game
from the play2PREVENT Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games is a highly interactive narrative-based videogame app in which players "travel" through life, facing the range of challenges that young teens face with a dedicated focus on youth decision-making about smoking and tobacco use and includes strategies for both smoking prevention and cessation. A three-year, $1.4 million grant from the CVS Health Foundation is helping to enhance and scale current pilot programs to reach more students across the country. READ MORE
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Alexa, Can You Help Kids Learn and Teachers Manage a Classroom?
The Inquirer
After an assistant in the third-grade classroom at Garnet Valley School led the kids in stretching exercises, counted down the time for their writing assignment, and finally blared the Village People’s “YMCA” from a speaker for a fast and furious dance break, a student blurted something out. “I love her!” said Kaidyn Potochar, one of the third graders. “I love her, too,” agreed her teacher, Meredithe Stefanowicz, but the assistant fell silent. She sat perched on a small counter, less than a foot tall. You’ve probably heard of her: Alexa. READ MORE
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Can You Eat Your Way to Better Mental Health? Study Says Yes
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It is well known that eating lots of fruit and vegetables is good for your physical health, but our latest research suggests that it might be good for your mental health too. A study from Australia in 2016 found improvements in psychological well-being after increases in fruit and vegetable consumption. We wanted to know if this finding held true using a larger sample (more than 40,000 participants). READ MORE
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12 Apps to Help Students Improve Their Self-Control
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Building social and emotional learning (SEL) skills such as self-control requires face-to-face interaction, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. READ MORE
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Are Teens Getting High on Social Media? The Surprising Study Seeking the Pot-Instagram Link
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In a groundbreaking study, a UCSD psychiatrist is investigating whether social media affects the adolescent brain in the same way as cannabis. Establishing a link could change how medical professionals view teens' engagement with Instagram, Snapchat and other social media platforms. "Psychiatrists don't recognize excessive social media use as addictive behavior," said Dr. Kara Bagot, a child psychiatrist and assistant professor in residency at the University of California San Diego. READ MORE
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A High-Crime Neighborhood Makes It Harder to Show up for School
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Getting students to show up is one of the biggest challenges schools face: How can someone learn at school if they're not there in the first place? A new study suggests living in a high-crime area, or simply passing through one on the way to school, can impact how often students show up to class. READ MORE
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Classrooms Roll Out the Power of Positivity
The Pilot
When Mike Erwin left active duty, it didn’t take him long to start searching for a way to contribute to his country even more indelibly than he had during his career as an Army officer. In 2015, Erwin and fellow veteran Jeff Bryan established the Positivity Project as a better answer to developing children’s character. Now, nearly 500 schools in 28 states have implemented the Positivity Project. READ MORE
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