Month: December 2019

Before December comes to an end and schools across the country close for winter break, we’d like to share some of SHAPE America’s most popular resources for health and …

As superintendent of the Watertown School District in South Dakota, I had the opportunity to attend the 2019 SHAPE America National Convention in Tampa last April. I was invited …

Have you ever heard other educators use negative language when referring to physical education teachers? I have — quite a bit. Some colleagues think our job looks easy and …

I have been a health and physical education teacher for more than 40 years and I know — using simple observation and some narrative feedback — that I am …

SHAPE America’s new service-learning program — health. moves. minds. — raises funds for schools and teaches kids how to thrive physically and emotionally. It can also increase mental health …

Now that physical education is identified as part of a student’s “well-rounded education” in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), physical educators have the opportunity to enhance the status …