Back to School Resources for Physical Education from SHAPE America!

Keep Students Moving to Boost Learning

To support you as the new school year begins, we've developed a Back to School website full of resources for teachers, administrators, professors, future professionals and parents, including:

• A brand new Physical Education Program Checklist
• Everything you need to develop a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program in your school
• Free podcasts on health and physical education topics
• A Justification Toolkit to help make your case for attending the National Convention & Expo
• Free webinars with innovative ideas and tried-and-true teaching strategies
• The newly designed Legislative Action Center
• And so much more! 

Help us Reach 50 Million Strong
"50 Million Strong by 2029" is SHAPE America's national initiative to ensure that all of America's students benefit from the skills, knowledge and opportunities to enjoy healthy, meaningful physical activity.
Let's join together to enhance health and physical education programs...and provide opportunities for students to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity before, during and after school.
You supply the daily commitment and enthusiasm; we'll provide the tools and resources.
Say "Count Me In" today and receive a free digital Scope & Sequence Chart. This chart:

• Supports the National Standards and grade-level outcomes for K-12 physical education
• Provides educators with an evaluation scale for K-12 students
• Provides guidance for developing lesson plans for K-12 physical education

National Physical Education & Sport Week

Kick Off May With Free Activity Ideas 

SHAPE America's National Physical Education & Sport Week begins today, calling attention to the value of physical education and physical activity in the lives of children and adults.
Make sure to download some new activities for your classroom and keep the celebration going, with 5 action steps you can take now — and all year long — to engage, activate and advocate for the profession. 

About Our Theme

Our new initiative, 50Million Strong by 2029, establishes SHAPE America's commitment to ensuring that by the time today's preschoolers graduate from high school in 2029, all of America's students are benefitting from the skills, knowledge, confidence, desire and opportunities to enjoy good health and meaningful physical activity. 

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Running Grants ---- AAHPERD Unique Running Lesson Plans ---- National Standards for Physical Education

ING Run For Something Better^® Grant Program
Now Open 

Grants for school running programs increased to $3,500 per school

This holiday season, ING U.S. is giving schools nationwide a unique opportunity to help students discover a passion for running and living a healthy lifestyle through its ING Run For Something Better School Awards. In partnership with the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), ING U.S. will provide a minimum of 60 grants of $3,500 each in 2014. The grant process is now open at www.aahperd.org/run.

The ING Run For Something Better School Awards are available for programs that target kindergarten through 8^th-grade students. The grant supports a minimum of an eight-week, school-based running program that concludes with a culminating running event in celebration of the students’ achievements. An AAHPERD review board, made up of physical education teachers and administrators, reviews all applications and selects the recipients.

In addition to the grants, schools can download unique running lesson plans developed by AAHPERD and based on the National Standards for Physical Education to serve as the foundation of the running program or to supplement an existing school program. Other program materials — such as sample eight-week training plans, distance logs and a running journal — will be available to help in the development of running skills and preparation for a final running event.

To learn about the program, including full eligibility requirements and to apply for the grant, visit www.aahperd.org/run. The deadline to apply is May 15, 2014, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

FREE Common Core, digital resources

Okay, you know how much we like FREE or in this case Federal Registry for Education Excellence (FREE) ---- check out the resources listed by subject (Arts & Music, Health and Physical Education, Language Arts, Math, Science, U.S. History topics, U.S. time periods, World Studies) or by standards (Common Core Mathematics, Geography Education Standards, Science Education Standards) ---- activities, games, curriculum, lessons plans, professional development, challenges, and more ---- check out the article below which was featured in MY eSchool News on July 16th, 2013: 

The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE) makes it easier to find digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations.

About the new Beta version

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has introduced a new version of FREE, which is powered by the Learning Registry—an open database for sharing digital learning resources. It runs on a custom version of WordPress, an open source content management system. The new FREE incorporates a responsive design to best serve customers who access FREE from mobile devices.

The new FREE is a work in progress, as the DOE is mapping more and more resources to national and state standards and envisions adding more social features to the site in the future.

The DOE welcomes your feedback and ideas! Contact the Department at FREE@ed.gov or on Twitter @FreeResources.

Background on FREE

FREE was conceived in 1997 by a federal working group in response to a memo from the President. The site was launched a year later. It was redesigned and relaunched for the first time in November 2006 and again in June 2013.

Federal agencies, if you’re looking to involve teachers in developing teaching resources, see  lessons learned.

FREE is maintained by the Office of Communications and Outreach and the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education in partnership with the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative.