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In this recent blog post, SHAPE America member Michael Messerole writes: Think back to your successful teaching moments and undoubtedly you will focus on the moment when a student recognized their success and possibly other students recognized it as well. When you teach all students in your class — regardless of their abilities — and create a safe environment for all students by removing barriers, whatever they may be, you are modeling the concepts of Unified Physical Education. READ MORE
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The final schedule for SHAPE America’s inaugural Professional Learning Institute is now live! This event — which focuses on social and emotional learning in HPE
— will feature presentations by each of this year’s SHAPE America National Teachers of the Year. Join your peers in Sioux Falls, SD, July 31-August 1, for this unparalleled professional development opportunity! LEARN MORE
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This article from the May/June issue of the American Journal of Health Education (AJHE) discusses a qualitative study which explored how to support early-learning providers’ healthy eating and physical activity programs. The study results can be used to guide the development of collaborations between health educators and community partners. READ MORE
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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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This fall will signal a change, not only to a new school year with new classes and students, but also to one of new perspectives and focus. The SHAPE America Teacher of the Year program will be at the forefront of this effort. We are excited about the changes ahead and the opportunity to expand the Teacher of the Year program even further with new partners. Please read this message from SHAPE America CEO Stephanie Morris as we salute a valued partner and release the RFP on this new opportunity. READ MORE
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Ditching Detention for Yoga: Schools Embrace Mindfulness to Curb Discipline Problems
Education Week
In many schools, when kids consistently see their behavior card flipped from green to yellow and finally, to red, they know to expect some punishment. For some, that discipline may come in the form of after-school detention, a math worksheet, or staying in for recess. At Doull Elementary in Denver, when students misbehave repeatedly they are assigned to a new after-school activity — yoga. Doull’s version of alternative discipline is part of the school’s embrace of social and emotional learning and is emblematic of the growing trend of K-12 schools to cultivate school environments that are attuned to the social and emotional well-being of children. READ MORE
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How to Improve Physical Activity and Health for All Children and Families
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Years of research tells us there are many influences on young people’s physical activity (PA), including psychological, social, educational, and environmental. Researchers have evaluated interventions focused on these factors and found several to be effective. However, little of what has been proven effective has been widely implemented or translated for under-resourced communities and communities of color. Applying an equity lens to promoting PA requires evaluation of evidence-based interventions in one population and then adaptation and implementation in other populations. READ MORE
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Families Play an Important Role in Social and Emotional Learning at School
EdWeek Market Brief
The secret is out: Social and emotional learning, sometimes known as SEL, has huge benefits for students. Not only can it help with grades and test scores, but it also teaches students the skills needed to live a healthy and productive life — like regulating emotions, how to build resilience to stress and challenges, make responsible decisions, and collaborate well with others. But new research suggests that SEL has widespread impacts beyond a classroom as well. READ MORE
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The Opioid Crisis Comes to the Classroom
The Seattle Times
From Washington to West Virginia, the number of children born in withdrawal from opioids and other drugs has skyrocketed, and those babies — now elementary-school students — present challenges that teachers say they have never encountered at such a scale. Expected to sit quietly, memorize lessons and manage the basic frustrations of learning, these children, suffering cognitive and developmental problems, instead tend to lash out with explosive physical aggression and wild mood swings. READ MORE
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Three Ways to Heal Your School
Thrive Global
What happens when we weave together physical, social and emotional well-being as core indicators of school success? Research at the Harvard Education School shows that centering school community wellness improves relationships between students and teachers, resulting in positive changes in student behavior, increased teacher retention, and decreased teacher burnout. READ MORE
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Why PE Should Be Required From Kindergarten to College
Luminate
Any parent of a fidgety kid knows that forcing a student to sit in a classroom several hours a day with little or no physical activity is a recipe for poor academic performance and lots of notes home from the principal. Our youngest son endured a K-12 education in which recess was rare and PE largely nonexistent. “No kid ever wants to sit still for five minutes,” he says now, weeks away from high school graduation. “Let alone seven hours.” Science is on his side. READ MORE
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