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Southern District Convention Program Highlights

"Into the Wind" 

2010 SDAAHPERD/SCAHPERD Convention

 

General Session Speaker

Dr. Ann Kulze

Eat Right for Life!

With electrifying energy and passion, Dr. Ann brilliantly transforms the dazzling new science as it relates to diet and health into a program that is simple, fun, and delicious. You will be educated and entertained, but most importantly, will walk away with take action-today inspiration and the knowledge you need to eat right for life!  

  

Kaleidoscope Dance Gala

"Dancing Into the Wind at Myrtle Beach"

Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. - Enjoy a performance by the best of the best dance companies from schools and universities in an artistically produced adjudicated concert. Dance Performance Council Members Rodney Williams, Kristi Vincent Johnson and Sanja Korman will be working hard to bring SD Convention attendees a spectacular Gala. Interested in having your group perform? Go to Southern District's website for criteria and an application.

 

Workshops - Wednesday, February 10, 2010  

  • Soar into the Wind with Health – Health Division ½ day (Wednesday) Join us for a foot-stomping, hand-clapping session that integrates physical activity and core content areas into health education. Strategies and lessons are innovative, developmentally appropriate, incorporate NHES, and use best practices in the teaching of health.  
  • Face Your Fears on a low and high ropes course – Physical Education Division full day (Wednesday) Get-to-know you activity, problem solving activity, low element, and high element on a challenge ropes course site at Myrtle Beach Middle School with an instructor with 25 years of experience and a level II certification with Project Adventure Inc. Cross a hot chocolate river with your group using a giant marshmallow; and with the support of that same group, take the plunge on the giant swing.  
  • Physical Conditioning Activities for Brain Based Learning - General Division ½ day (Wednesday)  
  • Title IX: Implications for Women in Sport and Education – General Division ½ day (Wednesday) This program will focus on valuable information presented in a 3-disc DVD set of the same title. Selections from the material will be shown and the history, impact and implications of Title IX legislation will be discussed.  
  • Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) – Health Division 1/2day (Wednesday) The Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) is an assessment tool for examining school health education curricula. The HECAT can help school districts conduct a clear, complete, and consistent analysis of health education curricula based on the National Health Education Standards and CDC's Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula. The HECAT results can help schools select or develop appropriate and effective health education curricula and improve the delivery of health education. The HECAT is customizable to meet local community needs and conform to the curriculum requirements of the state or school district.   Take Control of Your Next Step- Sport Leisure Division ½ day (Wednesday) Program includes suggestions and guidance for success in sports. Areas include nutrition, communication, goals, academics, recruiting, and athletic training.  

Workshops – Saturday, February 13, 2010  

  • Working Towards Whole Presence Through Upper Body- Dance Division ½ day (Saturday) Participants will learn specific techniques to release tension in the upper body to gain muscular balance, space in the tissues, and greater ease of movement. Techniques introduced include use of breath, imagery, touch, massage (myofascial release/connective tissue), proprioceptive neuromuscular intervention, and stretching and strengthening exercises. Specific muscles affected will include the pectoralis major and minor, subscapularis, rhomboids, levator scapula, subclavius, splenius capitis, occipitals, sternocleidomastoid, and the scalenes. Participants will work with a partner at appropriate times.  
  • Teambuilding in the Kinesiology College Classroom - General Division ½ day (Saturday) Teambuilding activities are a series of mental and physical challenges that require a group of individuals to work collaboratively as a team to accomplish goals. Utilizing teambuilding activities with students in the kinesiology college classroom setting establishes an environment for open, cooperative, experiential, and shared learning. These activities and challenges provide the students with an opportunity for learning through play, improve the group dynamics in the classroom, and verbalize metaphors for specific kinesiology topics. Through this process, students get a new point of view of themselves, the academic material, and the class group dynamics. This new perspective helps the individuals in a group realize and appreciate each other's similarities and differences. Providing students with hands-on experience through a variety of challenges that require self-discipline, communication skills, self awareness, and personal commitment are beneficial goals in any college classroom.  
  • USBVBA- Volleyball – Sport and Leisure Division ½ day (Saturday)