Lawmakers in the state of Minnesota are reviewing options to upgrade the physical education standards to aid in academic achievement and overall fitness and health. Organizations like the American Cancer Society, Healthy Kids Coalition and American Heart Association are behind …
Program budget cuts have proven to be a bane for academic institutions over the years. More often than not, educators find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place when their area of instruction takes a hit as a …
Teaching gym to special needs children is vitally important, but can be difficult given the unpredictability of students with a variety of disabilities. Greg Lukshaitis of Beaverton, Oregon has mastered this art. The Society of Health and Physical Educators just …
53-year-old PE Teacher Linda Gancitano has had plenty of honorable moments in her life, including being the first girl to ever play soccer on her high school’s boys’ team back in 1979 and being a member of the first women’s …
In an effort to encourage healthier living for his students through increased levels of physical activity, Brad Guidi, a physical education teacher at Southwestern Consolidation Elementary School in Shelbyville, Indiana has begun implementing cross-cultural activities into his curriculum. Guidi has …
The Kentucky Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance has named Lloyd memorial High School physical education and health teacher Rhonda Smith the Secondary Physical Education Teacher of the Year. The KAHPERD is a professional organization in Kentucky that …
It isn’t often that a gym teacher in Alaska receives national recognition for her work in the field, but that is exactly what happened to Jenna White. White is a physical education teacher in Anchorage who was recently presented with …
In Macon, Georgia, students from Meridian High School students should have had their gym period with their physical education teachers, Deana Williams and Mike Stogsdill, but instead, on Wednesday and Thursday, they dressed up in their Halloween clothes and did …
Lynne Higdon was recently named the 2014 New Mexico Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year at the State Physical Education Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Higdon has been teaching physical education at Barranca Elementary School for the last ten …