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NFL PLAY 60: Back to Football Friday on September 10th
Schools nationwide are encouraged to show their NFL team pride on Friday, September 10th for a chance to win exciting prizes. The 34 winning schools will be named NFL PLAY 60 Super Schools and receive a visit from an NFL player and a $10,000 NFL PLAY 60 health and wellness grant. To learn more about Back to Football Friday and register your school, visit www.NFLRUSH.com/footballfriday today!
Host a KaBOOM! Play Day! A Play Day is your chance to gather at your community’s favorite park for fun games and projects. Start planning now and get free activity ideas and you could win a $10,000 grant to further improve your play space. Visit today to gather more information to assist in planning your Play Day!
Host a KaBOOM! Play Day: $10,000 Grant
Available Position at NASPE: Program Manager
Do you have knowledge related to physical education, sport, and/or physical activity and experience teaching, coaching, and/or conducting research? Would you like to support your profession at a national level? Are you living in or willing to relocate to the Washington DC area? If yes, you will want to apply for the NASPE Program Manager position! This position is responsible for development and implementation of physical education, sport, and/or physical activity projects and activities and providing leadership to facilitate the direction of member committees and task forces. NASPE has an excellent team atmosphere, and we are looking for experienced professionals who want to add their expertise and project management, communication, interpersonal, analytical, organizational, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills to the team. To apply, go to http://www.aahperd.org/careers/careerlink.cfm and under “Find Jobs” click on “Search Jobs.”
President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition
In conjunction with the First Lady’s Let’s Move! Initiative, President Obama has broadened the scope of the Council to include a focus on healthy eating as well as active lifestyles. The President recently named Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saint, and Dominique Dawes, three-time Olympian and former U.S. national champion in women’s gymnastics, as the 2010 Council Co-Chairs. For more information about the Council and its members, visit www.fitness.gov, and to learn more about the President’s Challenge programs, visit www.presidentschallenge.org.
NASPE’s Shape of the Nation Report
NASPE and the American Heart Association recently released the 2010 Shape of the Nation Report: Status of Physical Education in the USA. It contains profiles of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Click here to read more details and view the full report.
NASPE’s PE2020: What should physical education look like in the year 2020 and beyond?
NASPE’s PE 2020 initiative seeks to answer this question by inviting physical education teachers, college/ university faculty, physical education teacher candidates, K-12 students, parents, school administrators, policymakers, community members, and other key supporters to share visionary thoughts about the future of physical education. PE2020 is a multi-faceted, two-year initiative and this online forum is just the first phase- but it is the foundation for the entire initiative. The culminating shared vision will be a call-to-action for NASPE and the profession. Click here to share your vision about the future of physical education now!
Safe Routes to School National Partnership: New Publication
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership has issues Getting Students Active through Safe Routes to School: Policies and Action Steps for Education Policymakers and Professionals. This new publication includes policies and action steps that can be implemented at the state, school district, and individual school level in several key areas specific to the education sector. Stories from states and communities across the provide real-life examples of how Safe Routes to School programs and policies can be adopted and implemented. Click here to view the publication and receive additional information.
Playworks’ Play On Conference: October 12-13 in NYC
Lace up your sneakers for the Play On 2010 on October 12-13 at Columbia University in New York City! Join leaders, educators, youth works, and others for the latest trends, tools, and strategies that enhance the lives of children through play. To register and learn more about this high-energy, hands-on conference, visit the website now!
Team-Up for Youth's Playing Well Report
Team-Up for Youth announces the release of its second in a series of monographs: Playing Well: Organized Sports and the Health of Children and Youth. Playing Well examines the implications that current research has on how participation in sports-based youth development programs can foster young people’s healthy development. As the nation struggles with extreme budget deficits, organized sports and other vital after-school programs are most often the ones on the chopping block. Youth of color and those living in low-income communities of color are the hardest hit by these cuts as they already suffer from higher rates of childhood obesity, diabetes and other related illnesses than more affluent communities. All kids have the right to live out long, healthy and productive lives – it is up to adults to help them figure out how. This report demonstrates that organized sports are one proven method for carrying out that task. Click here to view the report.
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