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Parsippany-Troy Hills (NJ)
- Hilton Hotel Grant
Deadline: Rolling
- Finish Line Youth Foundation
Deadline: 12/31/08
- Tiger Woods Foundation
Deadline: 01/15/09
- Rocky Mountain Pedometer Company
- PE-Sports-Ideas.TV
- Playsport.Net
- North Carolina AAHPERD
- Texas AHPERD
- NEW! Ohio AAHPERD
- NEW! Sharing the Wealth
- NEW! 19th Annual Int'l Challenge Course Symposium
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Each of the 25 "Make It -Take It" Fitness Games starts with a teacher-friendly and visual overview and richly illustrated exercises. $30.00 (K-8)
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K-12 Curriculum Incentives for the NEW Physical Education is the product of 60+ years of teaching and supervising K-12 physical education programs. Written by Bud and Sue Turner, this is the latest book of this husband and wife writing team. The ideas in this new text offer a library of planned, purposeful, and exciting activities aimed at motivating all students.
$37.00 (K-12)
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A Complete Package: Project ACES is probably the most successful physical education promotional event to date. Hailed by the President's Council for Physical Fitness & Sports as the "world's largest exercise class," this event has generated interest from newspapers and television shows around the USA.
Blueprints for Success: Len Saunders, creator of Project ACES, shares the secrets of 15 successful physical education programs with you. This book contains step-by-step descriptions for innovative projects such as the Tri-Fit-A-Thon, The Great Country Fitness Challenge, The Best-Ever Fitness Fair, The Virtual Fitness Jamboree, Fitness Pen Pals, and much more! $25.00 (K-5)
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Looking for New Ideas? By using the theme-based PE Activity Stations found in this book, you will be able to implement a year-long selection of enjoyable fitness, sport skills, and team-building opportunities for your students!
This book provides over 200 physical eudcation station ideas with 12 fun-filled chapters. A great selection of flexible, adaptable, time-saving, and theme-based activities guaranteed to add more fun to your program! $30.00 (K-8)
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A publication written by dedicated and experienced Physical Educators for life in the real world! New ideas make teaching fun! Just think, ... with each issue you'll receive 48 pages of high-involvement activities, motivational student certificates, field day ideas, new and exciting games, inspirational poems and stories, school-wide fitness resources, activities for limited spaces, and valuable student management teaching tips!
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Greetings!
Welcome to Issue #4! We continue to be grateful for the fantastic response from the many physical education teachers and PEP Grant Project Directors who receive this e-zine each month. Each of them has found the great PE links, samples of curriculum support (i.e., pacing guides), and instructional strategies (i.e., instant activities) informative and helpful.
Hundreds and Hundreds of Games! In this issue, we have decided to connect you with over 300 streaming videos of games and activities! It's all free, because our expert staff of "PE Web Fanatics" are constantly looking to provide you with the newest and best web resources:
- Tired of playing the same games over and over again?
- Want to see quality PE games and activities in action?
- Want to know more about the "Teaching for Understanding" model?
- Is there a way to tap into your students' inherent desire to play and be active?
- Can you create a K-12 physical education setting with games that are enjoyable and adaptable to every skill level?
- How can you help more students participate in a wide range of sports with greater success and enjoyment?
If you answered "yes" to one or more of these questions, this is your lucky day! You will find examples of these types of games and activities in our "Useful Web and Resource Links" section. Just keep reading and clicking!
Are You a First Timer? Is this the first time you have received the Carol M. White PEP Grant Newsletter? If so, each of you still has the opportunity to read the initial three newsletters (August, September, October) in our Archives Section found at the bottom of this page. In this way, you won't miss a thing!
Many Thanks! I would like to thank those of you I met while either presenting or attending at a variety of physical education venues this fall. These include:
- National Fall PE Leadership Training (Pine Knoll Shores, NC),
- National PEP Grant Resource Summit (Kansas City, MO),
- 2008 New Mexico AHPERD Convention (Albuquerque, NM),
- 2008 Michigan Association of Public School Academies (Detroit, MI),
- New York AHPERD Suffolk Zone Conference (Long Island, NY), and the DeKalb County School System (Decatur, GA).
Our Mission: There are four general purposes for this growing, monthly publication:
 To provide an active forum for sharing valuable and timely information to new and continuing Carol M. White PEP Grant-funded Project Directors, Central Office Staff and teachers.
- To help disseminate the "lessons learned" by PEP Grant winners to all interested Physical Education Supervisors and teachers.
- To encourage more schools and school districts to implement a comprehensive physical education program model as described in the Comprehensive Physical Education Profile (C-PEP) model.
- To recognize innovative schools and districts who are doing great things with and without PEP Grant funding.
Sincerely,
Artie Kamiya, Publisher
PS: If you are a Central Office administrator and would like to have all of your PE teachers added to the newsletter, just e-mail me an Excel spreadsheet with each teacher's first name, last name, and e-mail address.
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 Parsippany-Troy Hills School District
(Parsippany, New Jersey)
Background: The Parsippany-Troy Hills School District was the recipient of the U.S. Department of Education's Carol M. White Physical Education Program (P.E.P.) Grant. The goal of the grant is to assist the school district by providing $400,000 to expand and improve the physical education and health program.
Using the grant funds, we created a "Wellness for Life" program to teach students to monitor their personal fitness and to align the physical education and health programs with the New Jersey state standards. The district has purchased new technology to help students develop their own personal fitness plan. The technology includes personal fitness hardware and software, hand-held computers for physical educators, new computers for the elementary teachers, heart rate monitors and cardiovascular equipment for a wellness center at each high school.
"No knowledge is more crucial than knowledge about health.
Without it, no other life goal can be successfully achieved."
Ernest Boyer
Our Shared Vision: We are committed to the concept of "Wellness." We envision a well-articulated K-12 program, supported by research and professional practice that prepares all students to actively and effectively achieve and promote lifelong wellness. As we move forward, we are compelled to promote healthy students, healthy schools, and healthy communities.
Downloadable Health Ed Course Outlines: An example of our school district's commitment to strong physical education and health education programs can be seen in the development of our elementary, middle and high school health education approved course outlines. Downloadable copies of these health education course outlines can be found here.
Our Shared Outcomes: Our health and physical education programs will foster the physical and cognitive skills that allow students to feel comfortable and confident as they pursue lifelong fitness goals. A quality health and physical education program strives to provide a supportive environment that helps students to understand positive competition, respect for others, and the satisfaction of doing their best. All students must learn to compete to meet goals and reach standards, but competition should never be a source of humiliation or intimidation. In a quality health and physical education program, teachers help students understand and control the ways they compete and how they respond to winning and losing.
Our Shared Partners: As a team of educators, students, and parents, we are committed to the ideal that we can make a difference in our children's lives. Please join us as we create "Wellness" centers at each of our high schools, as well as a "Wellness Club." Our middle schools will be engaged in fitness assessments and health assessments through the use of personal fitness assessment system, hand-held computers and heart rate monitors. Our elementary schools will also have heart rate monitors and hand-held computers to facilitate assessment and give our students individualized feedback. As you can tell from this brief description, this is an exciting time for our health and physical educators. We will continue to need the support and commitment of the community as we strive to implement this program and continue to allow this opportunity for our students to grow and evolve.
 We'd
like to thank Linda Guerrini, Coordinating Supervisor for Health & Physical Education, for taking the time to share with us. If any
of you would wish to contact Linda, she can be reached at Lguerrini@pthsd.k12.nj.us.
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Hilton Hotel's Grant for Health & Education
The charitable giving interests of the Hilton Hotels Corporation are focused in the following four areas: K-12 Education Programs; Selected Healthcare Programs; Youth Programs; and Civic Affairs and Public Policy. The Corporation supports selected organizations with a national constituency or those that are located in communities where the company has a corporate office or a major operating presence (with primary emphasis in California and Tennessee).
Maximum Award: $2,000 - $10,000 on average.
Deadline: Rolling
Questions? Please visit: http://hiltonworldwide1.hilton.com/en_US/ww/business/citizenship.do#focus
Finish Line Youth Foundation
Finish Line Youth Foundation focuses its funding on organizations that provide opportunities for youth participation in the following areas: (1) Community-based programs addressing active lifestyle and team building skills; and (2) Established camps with an emphasis on sports and active lifestyle, especially programs serving disadvantaged and special needs kids. The Foundation may provide financial support for the direct costs of youth programming, full or partial scholarship funding for camps or youth athletic programs, and equipment and small capital projects.
Award: $1,000 - $5,000 on average
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Questions? Please visit: http://www.finishline.com/store/youthfoundation/guidelines.jsp
Tiger Woods Foundation - Local Giving Program
The Tiger Woods Foundation focuses on providing opportunities to underserved youth between the ages of 5-17. Education programs that enhance the learning process for youth and year-round mentoring and/or tutoring programs are approved programmatic areas of funding. The Tiger Woods Foundation primarily funds organizations and programs that are based in urban American cities.
Maximum Award: $25,000
Deadline: January 15, 2009
Questions?
Contact the Tiger Woods Foundation directly for complete program information and application guidelines: http://www.tigerwoodsfoundation.org/how_to_apply.php
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so, please click here to send an e-mail to us with your name and contact information. Type "PE Grants" in the subject line.
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1. Rocky Mountain Pedometer Company
Background: Let Rocky Mountain Pedometer Company custom build a "Physical Education Pack" with Digi-walkers for you! Just tell us how many pedometers you need and we'll put it together. NO minimums, NO maximums, NO predetermined number. All of our "Physical Education Packs" are custom made to your particular needs. Included, complimentary in our kits, are our copyrighted, comprehensive "Teaching Resources."
They carry the Digi-Walker Pedometer, the #1 rated "Gold Standard" pedometer by the ACSM (American College of Sports
Medicine). Owned and operated by Bonnie Hopper, a former National
Physical Education Teacher of the Year (TOY). Call free at (877) 685-9059!
2. PE-Sports-Ideas.TV
Background: An interesting website developed in New Zealand with Flash or Quicktime videos. Each game video provides an overview of the game rules and a downloadable pfd of the game rules. The games are easy to understand and can be implemented the very next day! According to the website there are over 220 quality video & animated physical education sports resources.
- For the PE teacher or sports coach who wants all the ideas!
- Ideas on how to integrate www.pe-sport-ideas.tv's warm-ups and
games into your lessons and sports.
- Solutions to increase fun and physical activity.
- New games and new versions of old games.
** Editor's Note: This website also contains a variety of games (such as dodgeball, overuse of relays) and other activities that many physical educators would find questionable and unsupported by local, state, and national (i.e., NASPE) physical education organizations. Please do not play games where your students are "moving targets," eliminated from the activity, with boys versus girls, or where exercise is being using as a punishment.
3. Playsport.net
Background:An excellent website designed by Ophea (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association, Canada). Ophea is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting Ontario, Canada school communities through advocacy, quality programs and services, and partnership building. Ophea is led by the vision that all kids will value, participate in, and make a lifelong commitment to active, healthy living.
PE for the Whole Child: PlaySport is focused upon the development of the whole child. The developmental games within this awesome website have been designed to help kids, ages six to twelve, develop an understanding and competency of the skills and tactics associated with playing sports while at the same time developing important skills that can be transferred to other aspects of their lives. Practitioners from all sectors (e.g., teachers, coaches, recreation leaders, public health workers, university staff and students, etc.) from around the world can all benefit from this resource.
"Teaching for Understanding" Model: PlaySport embraces "Teaching Games for Understanding," an approach that taps into kids' inherent desire to play 'teaching kids games by playing games'. By playing games that are fun and adaptable to every skill level, PlaySport will prepare kids to participate in a wide range of sports with greater success and enjoyment.
Physical Literacy for Every Body: Each PlaySport activity also focuses upon a specific FUNdamental skill. The FUNdamental skills section is directly linked back to Canada's Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Plan which has been designed to foster the development of physical literacy across a wide range of activities.
Game Categories: The PlaySport activities are separated into four categories: Target, Net/Wall, Striking/Fielding, and Invasion/Territory. Each category focuses on specific game strategies that will assist kids in developing the skills they need to participate in sports.
Playsport.net is an educational website which allows you to search for activities based on the equipment you have, the skills you want to teach, the complexity of the game or the space you have available. Search their database of activities and view their online instructional videos:
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November, 2008
Event: North Carolina AAHPERD 61st Annual Convention
Dates: November 20-22, 2008
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Contact: Dr. Ron Morrow at (888) 840-6500 or Romorrow@ncaahperd.org
Website: click here.
Event: Texas AHPERD 85th Annual Convention
Dates: December 3-6, 2008
Location: Corpus Christi - American Bank Center
Contact: Lisa Fall at (512) 459-1299 or lisa@tahperd.org
Website: click here.
January, 2009
Event: Share the Wealth NEW LISTING!
Dates: January 22-24, 2009
Location: Jekyll Island Convention Center, Jekyll Island Georgia
Contact: Judy Phillips at judyphil@valdosta.edu
Website: click here
Event: 19th Annual International Challenge Course Symposium and Conference NEW LISTING!
Dates: January 29, 2008 - February 1, 2009
Location: InterContinental Hotel, Houston, TX (Galleria area)
Contact: Sylvia Dresser 847-945-0829 or sylvia@acctinfo.org
Website: click here
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Tips for Giving Instructions and Feedback
Jeff Mushkin and Paul Rosengard
 Here are 5 strategies to be more efficient giving instructions and providing students with feedback to create a positive environment for your class. For more great ideas, visit the SPARK website at: http://www.sparkpe.org/
1) "When" Before "What"
When giving instructions, tell students WHEN you want them to do something before you tell them WHAT you want them to do. The desired outcome from this strategy is to reduce the number of "false starts" (students starting before you have finished all of the directions) that typically disrupt a lesson. For example, if you wanted the students to get a ball and line up around the perimeter of the gym for a game of "Everyone's It" Tag, you would state the following: "When I say 'go,' please get a ball from the racks and line up around the perimeter of the gym. Ready... 'Go!'"
2) "The Object Is "______" & "You Do That By "______"
When describing an activity, try: "The object of the activity is ________; you do that by _________. Ready? Go!" This strategy helps keep your instructions focused and concise. You'll spend less time on instructions and your students will get more time in physical activity.
3) The 80/20 Rule: Don't Ask - "Any Questions?"
This strategy will help to increase time that the students are physically active in your PE classes. After you give your instructions, assume that 80% of students understand and the other 20% don't. SPARK-trained teachers rarely ask "Class, are there any questions?" They just get going! You will find that most students will "get it" while participating in the activity. While your students are moving, play the role of "plumber" and "fix the leaks" by providing individuals with any additional guidance as needed.
4) 3 to 1 Ratio
Try giving three positive feedback statements to every one corrective statement. This helps build student confidence and increases the likelihood of their listening. For example, if members of the class are off-task, you may want to say a corrective statement - "Class, please stay at your own activity station." When this happens, quickly follow-up with three positive statements such as "I see Jimmy staying at his activity station. Good job!" or "Class, I really like the way you are helping one another at each station." However, if students are doing something unsafe to themselves or others, correct them immediately!
5) Individual Feedback Too!
Students love individual attention too. It's always good to provide individual feedback when students are working alone or in small groups. Try not to shout across the gym if someone is doing something good. Just walk toward that person and give him/her individual attention and praise.
Want to Learn More? SPARK workshops provide detailed instruction on these concepts and many others. Inquire about hosting a SPARK workshop on a district professional growth day (SPARK comes to you) or attending an Institute in San Diego next summer (you come to SPARK). See our website: www.sparkpe.org Or call: 800-SPARKPE
Comments regarding this article are welcome:
Jeff Mushkin: jmushkin@sparkpe.org
Paul Rosengard: prosengard@sparkpe.org
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 The Builder
Author Unknown
A builder built a temple,
He wrought it with care and skill.
Pillars, windows and arches,
Were fashioned to meet his will.
Men said when they saw its beauty:
"It shall never know decay,
Great is thy skill O' builder,
Thy fame shall endure for the age."
A teacher too, built a temple.
She wrought it with skill and care.
Forming each pillar with patience,
Laying each stone with care.
No one saw the unceasing effort,
No one knew of the marvelous plan.
For the concerned work of the teacher
Was unseen by the eyes of man.
Gone is the builder's temple,
Crumbled into dust.
Pillars, windows and arches,
Food for consuming rust.
But the temple the teacher built,
Share endure while the ages roll.
For the beautiful unseen temple
Was the child's immortal soul.
 This
inspirational story is an example of the many other stories, teacher tips, games,
and activities contained in the PEP Club Archives, the largest single
collection of games, activities, and physical education teaching tips
in the universe! Access to the PEP Club is $59.95 a year. Please call (800) 927-0682 for discounted rates for multi-school subscriptions.
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