PHE America has announced its editorial board members for 2022, including the addition of two associate editors. The Editorial Board is comprised of professionals in higher education interested in serving as reviewers to offer writers constructive feedback in preparing their articles for publication. Editorial Board members serve both PHE America and Sport Coach America.
The nine-member board includes Associate Editor for PHE America, Brian Sather, a professor at Eastern Oregon University; Associate Editor for Sport Coach America, Collin Fehr, an assistant professor at Lewis-Clark State College; Editor-in-Chief, Pete Van Mullem, a professor at Lewis-Clark State College and director of Sport Coach America; Sean Dahlin, an assistant professor at Central Washington University; Greg Lott, an assistant professor and assistant director of athletics at Denison University; Hillary Robey, an assistant professor at Western Washington University; Jessica Savage, an instructor at Lewis-Clark State College; Aubrey Shaw, an academic program advisor at the University of Idaho; and Heather Van Mullem, a professor at Lewis-Clark State College.
Tom Farrey, executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Project Play, will be the featured speaker for the 3rd Annual Mike and Terry Metzler Distinguished Lecture, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 15, at 11 a.m. est.
He will give a presentation entitled, “How to Put the Youth Back in Youth Sports.”
It is with sadness that we share the news that Professor Daryl Siedentop passed away July 15, 2021. Our friend and colleague Daryl Siedentop was born on July 28, 1938. The love of his life Roberta (Bobbie) Siedentop was a primary physical education teacher whom Daryl met while she was studying at Ohio State. They were happily married for 44 years taking care of their many dogs, Bobbie’s horses, and their homes in Columbus and Pinehurst. In recent years, as Daryl’s health deteriorated and his memory failed him, Bobbie lovingly cared for him. Despite the challenges, she found ways to ensure his life was as comfortable, meaningful, and happy as his health circumstances allowed. She has kept in touch with his friends and former students. And she kept friends and colleagues abreast of their lives via Christmas cards, photos, emails, and phone calls. It has been her loving way of paying tribute to the joy Daryl got from connecting with, hearing from and reading about the lives and achievements his former colleagues and doctoral students.
Daryl spent most of his professional career as a Professor at The Ohio State University. While at The Ohio State University, he recruited a team of young faculty, not only creating a powerful team of pedagogical teachers and researchers in physical education and resulting in friendships that have lasted a lifetime. He was highly regarded for his outstanding leadership of and service to the College of Education at Ohio State including being appointed senior associate dean of the College of Education and as interim dean of the College of Education. After retiring, Daryl assumed initial leadership of OSU’s new P-12 Project, a university-wide outreach initiative to support urban school improvement in Ohio. In 2005, he accepted an appointment as research professor and director for the Teacher Quality Partnership, a consortium of Ohio’s 50 colleges and universities designed to enhance teacher quality and ensure highly qualified teachers in every classroom.
Daryl was one of the founding fathers of Sport Pedagogy in North America. His scholarly contributions to Sport Pedagogy and Physical Education Teacher Education, in particular his mentorship of more than 80 doctoral students, leaves a legacy to our scholarly community. He was one of the world’s leading authorities on Sport Education for children and youth and is its most influential scholar in the analysis of teaching effectiveness in physical activity settings. Daryl’s contributions to Physical Education cut across four key themes (Play Theory, Sport Education, Physical Activity Policy and the US National Physical Activity Plan, and Physical Education teaching and teacher education research). His mentoring and research with colleagues and doctoral students brought him much pleasure and many lifelong friends. He so much enjoyed hearing of the achievements of those scholars, and several were privileged to co-author articles and textbooks with him.
In the early 1980s, Daryl created the Sport Education model and published his first book on the subject, Sport Education, in 1994. He consulted in the 1980s with the New Ministry of Education in New Zealand as they introduced Sport Education as a cornerstone of their Physical Education curriculum. He is also the author of several books on physical education, curriculum planning, and sport coaching. In recognition of his scholarly contributions, in 1979, Daryl was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Physical Education (later to be the National Academy of Kinesiology). He earned the 1984 International Olympic Committee President’s Award (Samaranch Award), which is the highest honor for work in Sport Pedagogy.
PHE America is excited to announce the release of a new affiliate site, Sport Coach America. Sport Coach America collaborates with coaches, coach developers, and scholars to provide content that offers insight on current best practices in coaching today. Site content includes articles written by coaches, sport administrators, and sport scholars.
With the release of Sport Coach America, PHE America will start to increase content in physical and health education from practitioners and scholars in the field. All previously published material on coaching will remain on PHE America and visitors to www.pheamerica.org will be able to link to Sport Coach America.
The PHE America Advisory Board is comprised of professionals who are seasoned in their respected fields or have insight on a particular area of physical education, health, or coaching. To be eligible, an Advisory Board member must have one published article in PHE America and/or served PHE America (or previously PeLinks4u) in some capacity. Advisory Board members serve 1-3 year terms. Terms can be renewed. The Advisory Board will offer recommendations on potential topics and writers. In addition, board members will provide feedback on the quality and application of published articles to best reach and connect with practitioners. For more information on the Advisory Board members visit: http://www.pheamerica.org/advisory-board/
2020 Board Members
Steve Jefferies
Professor Emeritus, Central Washington University
Publisher, PHE America
PHE Community member and frequent contributor to PHE America, Elizabeth Bolger was recently named the 2019 New York State Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year. Click for full story