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Have you seen SHAPE America's Download Library? It's filled with classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resources — and most of them are free to all! Here are the 5 most-downloaded resources for 2019:
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The M.A.Ed. in Physical Education Master Teacher is an online graduate program designed to help K-12 physical education teachers enhance their instructional effectiveness. Students can choose from emphases in pedagogy or special populations to help enhance their physical fitness classroom.
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The SHAPE America Blog
brings you the latest insights, ideas and research each week directly from the HPE community! Here are the 5 most-viewed posts for 2019:
If you'd like to be a guest author for the SHAPE America blog in 2020, email Larissa Kulczycky, managing editor, at lkulczycky@shapeamerica.org.
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FEATURED BLOG POST
Guest author Jeff Danielsen, superintendent of the Watertown School District in South Dakota, shares his perspective on why health and physical education are a good fit for developing students' social and emotional health.
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Integrating SEL Through Health and PE: A Superintendent's Perspective
Physical education and health classrooms already focus on the importance of being physically fit and healthy eating and lifestyle habits. Placing an emphasis on ways to keep students emotionally healthy would seem to be another avenue to promote students’ well-being. READ MORE
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One of the highlights of 2019 was the nationwide launch of health. moves. minds.™ Schools across the country are embracing this new program, which provides health and physical education teachers with lessons, activities, and community-building ideas that can help students thrive physically and emotionally. The flexible fundraising component is a big hit too! LEARN MORE
Read what students and teachers are saying about health.
moves. minds.
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Top 5 Newsletter Articles
These were the most viewed articles in Et Cetera.
These High School Sports Have Highest Concussion Rates
CNN
When it comes to concussions in high school sports, there is good news and bad news, a new study suggests. The rates of football practice concussions and recurrent concussions across all sports have gone down in recent years, according to the study, published in the journal Pediatrics. The bad news: Concussion rates increased in football games. The study found trends in concussion rates not only for football but also more than a dozen other sports, including soccer, ice hockey and cheerleading — which were among the sports with the most concussion incidence. READ MORE
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Vaping 101: What to Know About E-Cigs, Addiction and Illnesses
NBC News
Hundreds of mysterious illnesses and several deaths linked to vaping have revealed to health officials, doctors and researchers how little they know about what these chemicals do to the lungs. As director of the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction program at Boston Children's Hospital, Dr. Sharon Levy has seen the effects of vaping on teens firsthand. In her clinic, she's helped treat patients whose lives are falling apart, all because of vaping. Vaping doesn't necessarily refer to a single substance. The health effects run the gamut from addiction to severe respiratory illnesses. READ MORE
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Teen Vaping Study Reveals How Schools Influence E-Cigarette Use, Outlines Prevention Strategies
Medical Xpress
"In just one year, from 2017 to 2018, the number of high school students using e-cigarettes nearly doubled," said Adam Lippert, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver. In a new study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Lippert and his co-authors examined data from 65,000 middle and high school students to learn how environmental, social and cultural factors spurred the uptick. Schools emerged as critical contexts that shape youth health-related behavior. 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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The Profound Effects of Exercise on the Brain: A Conversation With Dr.
John Ratey
Big Think
Dr. John Ratey's 2008 book, Spark, investigated the many important effects that exercise has on mental health. And, while physical fitness is essential to good health, moving in a variety of ways is even more important. In this interview, Ratey discusses the junction of physical and mental health, barefoot running, why schools need to implement PE as part of their educational curriculum, and the role of play in fitness. READ MORE
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