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Throughout the month, Active Schools and partners will provide teachers and families with resources for integrating movement into the classroom. Classroom physical activity helps students feel better, work together as a team, reduce anxiety, and maintain focus all while learning and retaining academic content.
Participation is FREE. Register by using the LINK or by scanning the QR-code. Participants that register will receive exclusive resources, and also have the opportunity to win weekly prizes.
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.
CoachUp! will take a multi-faceted approach to deepen SEL coaching practices across the state. The evidence-based training will be offered both virtually and in person, ensuring that coaches at member schools are receiving foundational SEL principles and strategies through multiple avenues. The training will be piloted with a representative sample of coaches at the outset of the project, refined, then extended to the remainder of the coaches in the state by 2023.
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.”
Active Schools and OPEN invite you to participate in “Family PE Week” October 4-8, 2021. The goal of Family PE Week is to help families, schools, and communities understand the importance of physical education.
There are many ways to celebrate such as participating in our Active Family Challenge and finding new ways to incorporate PE at home as a family. We will be sharing fun and engaging activities for students, staff, and families throughout the week.
“Family PE Week” is co-sponsored by Active Schools and OPEN. View resources and register for free HERE. We have also created a Resource Tour Video for you to explore the many resources we will be sharing throughout the week!
Whitehead (2013, p.29) defines physical literacy as “the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activity throughout the life course.” As a concept, physical literacy underpins the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America) National Standards and Grade level outcomes for K-12 Physical Education (2021). SHAPE America, as an organization, offers support, networking, and educational resources for health and physical educators throughout the United States. At present, the concept of physical literacy offers an opportunity for physical educators to embrace a practical and actionable platform that will advocate for quality physical education in the school setting and opportunities for all-age physical activity throughout the community. The following are three actionable strategies physical educators at all grade levels can adopt to establish and maintain a physically literate community.
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.
