Urban PE Webinar #1
Urban Physical Education and Students' Academic Success webinar
November 22 at 3:00 pm EST.
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Join leading experts during this first urban physical education webinar as we explore the science behind the relationship between physical activity and academic achievement. Learn how to turn the science into marketing and promotion messages that are compelling and can influence decision makers!
Speakers:
Sarah M. Lee, Ph.D. of the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Julian A. Reed, Ed.D., MPH of Furman University Charles H. Hillman, Ph.D. of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pre-reading materials:
- Please read the article: Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognition
- Explore CDC's Health & Academics website
- Examine the Health & Academics Data & Statistics page
- Review the executive summary titled The Relationship Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance. It can be found here.
- Read the Active Education resource brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Urban PE Webinar #2
Engaging high-level administrators in quality physical education
February 22, 2012
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Learn key strategies to get the attention of high-level school administrators and keep them regularly engaged in urban physical education! Join CDC, Action for Healthy Kids, and other physical education leaders during this 75 minute webinar to learn how they were able to engage high level administrators to improve their physical education programs.
Speakers:
- Lori Rose Benson, YMCA of Greater NY
- Heather Deckard, Teresa Cummings, Ellayne Roberts, Sacramento City Unified School District
Goal: To provide strategies for urban physical education leaders on how to engage high-level administrators in improving the quality of physical education.
Webinar learning objectives: As a result of this webinar, participants will:
- Learn at least 1 new strategy for engaging high-level administrators.
- Identify at least 2 key messages that resonate with or grab the attention of high-level administrators.
- Identify at least 2 action steps to take to engage high-level administrators in their school district.
Urban PE Facebook Page
Do you teach physical education in an urban school? Urban PE, a professional learning community sponsored by NASPE, is now on Facebook!
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The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), an association of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), supports and promotes physical education, sport, and youth physical activity programs through research, development of standards, and dissemination of information.
NASPE encourages urban PE leaders and educators across the nation to identify and discover innovative, meaningful strategies for improving quality physical education in urban areas, and enable positive change through sharing, collaboration, and networking. AAHPERD/NASPE welcomes physical education teachers, physical education supervisors and coordinators, decision-makers, stakeholders, and community leaders who support urban physical education to contribute to this group.
Funding for this web page was made possible in part by cooperative agreement award number U58DP003220 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).