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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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- February, 2010 -
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Greetings!:
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Carol M. White PEP Grant Services: Several items -
- March 15, 2010 Deadline: This is for school districts interested in a review of the "Evaluation" section of their PEP Grant proposal. For more information, please contact me via e-mail [artie@greatactivities.net].
- April 15, 2010 Deadline: Need another way to gather the required Carol M. White PEP
Grant GPRA measures? Our web-based data collection system can be used to help you collect this required data for the 2010-2011 school year. Please let us know before this deadline so we can plan accordingly.
- May 15, 2010 Deadline: This deadline is for school districts interested in using one of our great K-12 PE presenters during 2010-2011 school year. These all-day workshops can be aligned to existing or future PEP Grants.
Thanks, 
Artie Kamiya, Publisher
Artie@greatactivities.net
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 * Important Bulletin - PEP Grant Webinar Scheduled
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2010 PEP GRANT WEBINAR SCHEDULED FOR THIS TUESDAY -
FEBRUARY. 2, 2:00-3:00 P.M. (Eastern)
The following OSDFS 2010 Discretionary grant opportunities will be included in the webinar:
- Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS)
- Higher Education Institutions for Emergency Management Plans
- Elementary and Secondary School Counselors
- Grants for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems
- Building State Capacity for Preventing Youth Substance Use and Violence
- Grant Competition to Reduce Alcohol Abuse
- Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses
- Cooperative Civic Education and Economic Education Exchange Program
- Carol M. White Physical Education Program
Registration: There is no pre-registration for this event. On the day of the webinar, call-in participation will be limited to the first 500 callers.
Log-In Procedures: This is the first of a series of OSDFS monthly webinars currently in the planning stages. Meeting Number: 741 038 130 Enter your name and email address. Enter the meeting password: jan2010 Click "Join Now."
To join the Teleconference:
For audio, please dial the toll-free conference line at 1-888-942-8389 and enter participant passcode - 1014955
Remember, this webinar/conference is
limited to the first 500 participants.
For assistance:
2. On the left navigation bar, click "Support".
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Focus on PEP Grant School Districts - Winter Sports and Other Great Stuff!
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Millcreek Schools (Erie, PA)
Maria Spicher, PEP Grant Project Manager
(Erie Times, PA) Despite the 25-degree cold, he'd worked up a sweat and skied for a while without his coat. "I play lacrosse and I've done some downhill skiing, but this is a lot different. It's really good exercise," Luba said.
Luba was part of a McDowell High School physical education class that went to Asbury Woods recently to learn how to snowshoe and ski. The class is one of a growing number of physical education courses that emphasize activities that students can enjoy outside of school, and often for the rest of their lives.
They're part of a new focus on personal fitness to help kids be healthy and become healthy adults, said Maria Spicher, chairwoman of the Millcreek Township School District's health and physical education department.
"Physical education today is about teaching kids the skills they need to be more active, be more fit and be more healthy -- physically, emotionally and mentally. It's about teaching kids to have better lives," Spicher said.
Fighting Fat with Fitness: Obesity is the major obstacle to student health and fitness, Spicher said. Almost 17 percent of children and young adults ages 6 through 19 are obese -- or seriously overweight -- according to new studies printed Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And obesity has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers.
Compounding the obesity problem are the computers, video games and TV that many children prefer to physical play, Spicher said. "We've become a sedentary society. Kids used to play outside and get exercise. Today, we have to teach kids that activity is fun, and teach them the skills that they need to be more active and fit," she said.
Fitness Centers Work! Students use treadmills, rowing machines and other sophisticated equipment in classes that focus on cardiovascular workouts. Many schools, including McDowell, provide heart monitors so that students can reach and maintain optimum exercise levels while they exercise.
"It helps students get serious about getting fit. A number of students have lost 15 to 25 pounds of body fat," Spicher said.
A $1.1 million Carol M. White Physical Education Program Grant helped the Millcreek Township School District extend and coordinate kindergarten to 12th grade physical education programs, Spicher said.
For More Details, please feel free to contact Maria at mspicher@mtsd.org. |
Boaz City PEP Grant Officials Take Part in National Obesity Leadership Academy
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(Gadsen Times) - Mayor Tim Walker and Boaz City School System Superintendent
Leland Dishman recently joined dozens of city and school officials in
New Orleans for the Southern Municipal Leaders Combating Childhood
Obesity Leadership Academy. PEP Grant to Policy Development: The
school system has received a federal grant for nearly $1 million to
develop a new K-12 physical education curriculum and to purchase
state-of-the-art exercise equipment for the middle and high schools.
The grant will allow the system to revolutionize the way it teaches
physical education.
The academy was sponsored by
the National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education, and
Families and the American Association of School Administrators. It was
attended by 35 officials from 11 states - Alabama, Arkansas,
California, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. Boaz
and its school system are taking action to help reduce childhood
obesity through education, nutrition and physical exercise. To
support and broaden this initiative, the mayor will be working on
another front to attack this problem through improved recreational
department opportunities such as new programs and new facilities. The
city and school system are, in cooperation with the Alabama Department
of Transportation, building sidewalks connecting the schools to
encourage more students to walk and bike to school. New sidewalks will
connect Boaz Intermediate School, Boaz Middle School and Boaz High
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2010 "Walk the Talk" PE Conference
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Details: The 2010 "Walk the Talk" Minnesota National Physical Education Conference will take place on June 16-18, 2010. Do you want...
- Ideas for international games, assessment?
- Gymnastics, challenge activities, and dance?
- Research for healthy childhood?
- Emotional health of children and adults?
- Behavior and class management strategies?
- PE and Technology-Smart Boards in the gym?
- And much more
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2010 PE4Life Resource Conference
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Overland Park, KS (October 4-5, 2010)
Description: Phil Lawler would like to invite everyone to PE4Life's Resource Conference! Please come! Join the brightest and best in the profession as they share cutting-edge ideas and techniques through roundtable discussions, think-tank opportunities and breakout sessions. This two full-day event is designed to inform, educate and inspire regardless of where you are in your program - we've even tossed in some good quality play time with our program partners and equipment vendors! At this two full-day event you will: - Meet top physical educators in the country and learn best practices they utilize
- Work together and network with other PE professionals through opportunities such as roundtable discussions
- Hear from professionals who have been there, done that and are sharing their lessons learned
- Take away applicable, hands on information that you can begin implementing upon returning home
- Participate in activity and demonstration sessions with equipment vendors
- Leave feeling inspired and motivated!
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From the PEP Newsletter Archives - "John Baker's Last Race"
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 Background: The following article is reprinted from Reader's Digest. It is about an outstanding young man who ran cross country and track for Manzano High School and the University of New Mexico. Years later, I had the honor of coaching the track and cross country teams at Manzano High School, as I took over for John's coach when he retired. My daughters attended the elementary school that was named after him. I never knew him personally, but saw him compete in the greatest dual meet I have ever witnessed. While attending high school, our track coach arranged for us to travel to Albuquerque to watch the UNM Lobos take on the University of Southern California Trojans. That meet left a burning desire in me to compete at the collegiate level in track. It is much easier for me to tell this story on these pages than in person, as I have never read this story aloud without crying. Note by Artie: In 1978 a movie was made about John Baker. This was the same year I started teaching. I knew nothing about John Baker at that time, but happened to see the movie on TV. It's one of those movies, along with "Brian's Song," that seemed to reinforce the importance of sports, physical education, friendship, commitment, and teaching in general.
>>> Fast forward >> 30 years into the future. It's 2008 and I'm in Albuquerque talking with Ann Paulls-Neal about New Mexico AHPERD stuff. She's an elementary PE teacher and guess where she teaches?.....
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The future looked bright to 24-year old John Baker in the spring of 1969. At the peak of an astonishing athletic career, touted by sportswriters as one of the fastest milers in the world, he had fixed his dreams on representing the United States in the 1972 Olympic Games. Nothing in Baker's early years had hinted at such prominence. Slight of build, and inches shorter than most of his teen-age Albuquerque pals, he was considered "too uncoordinated" to run track in high school. But something happened during his junior year that changed the course of his life. For some time, the Manzano High track coach, Bill Wolffarth, had been trying to induce a tall promising runner named John Haaland - who was Baker's best friend - to join the track team. Haaland refused. "Let me join the team," Baker suggested one day. "Then Haaland might, too." Wolffarth agreed, and the maneuver worked. And John Baker had become a runner. The first meet that year (it was 1960) was a 1.7 mile cross-country race through the foothills east of Albuquerque. Most eyes were focused on Albuquerque's reigning state cross-country champion, Lloyd Goff. Immediately after the crack of the gun, the field lined up as expected, with Goff setting the pace and Haaland on his heels. At the end of four minutes, the runners disappeared one by one behind a low hill inside the far turn of the course. A minute passed. Two. Then a lone figure appeared. Coach Wolffarth nudged an assistant. "Here comes Goff," he said. Then he raised his binoculars. "Good grief!" he yelled. "That's not Goff! It's Baker!" ...... (continued) |
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