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An assistant professor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science ( SHAPE) America. SHAPE is the voice for more than 200,000 health and physical education professionals nationally, having served as the foundation for well-designed physical education programs across the country. A Health and Physical Education ( HPE) Assistant Professor at Erin Centeio was also appointed to the As part of her role on the board, Centeio will help provide professional development opportunities, share free resources from across the country,...

As many students begin returning to campus after a year of being mostly stuck indoors during school hours staring at screens, some districts in California are cutting the programs that advocates say students need more than ever: physical education. Faced with declining enrollment, several school districts are trying to save money by laying off or reassigning PE teachers. Hermosa Beach School District, an elementary district south of Santa Monica, laid off its only PE teacher in February. In Capistrano Unified in Orange County, about half the PE teachers have been reassigned, leaving some rema...

Daily exercise may be even more important for kids’ mental and physical health now than it was before covid.

By Doug Barrett Feb 7, 2021 12:28 PM The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell to 779,000 last week. That’s the lowest in two months but still a historically high total that shows that a sizable number of people continue to lose jobs to the viral pandemic. Before the virus erupted in the United States in March, weekly applications for jobless aid had never topped 700,000, even during the Great Recession.   The services sector, where most Americans work, operated in January at the highest level in almost two years. The Institute for Supply Management reports that ac...

By Pat Sweeney Feb 2, 2021 8:49 PM Randy Votava, physical education teacher at South Middle School, has been named the North Dakota Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) Middle School Teacher of the Year.   The Middle School Physical Education Teacher Award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated continuous dedication to the advocacy and enhancement of student learning in physical education at the middle school level. The nominees, by outstanding teacher performance and style, have personified the concept that the effort made to enrich the goals and objectives of phys...