Navigating Dual Credit: Tips and Tools for Success

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Education continues to evolve offering students an assortment of opportunities to earn college credit while still attending high school. In the state of Idaho, the Fast Forward Program provides students attending public schools access to $4,125.00 to help pay for dual/concurrent enrollment credits, Advanced Placement College Board, and Professional Technical Education exams and overload course fees. Dual/concurrent enrollment is a collaborative partnership between higher education and high schools to provide college courses for high school students. The high school instructors are pre-approved by the college/university academic departments to deliver college-level courses.

A fundamental component of this partnership is that the courses dually taught are closely aligned while still allowing some academic freedom between instructors. From our learned experience, this process can be tedious, drawn out, and complicated. Therefore, we offer the following strategies for success in navigating the dual credit program.

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Help Revise the National PE Standards

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School districts across the country rely on in order to develop their own standards, frameworks and curricula.

As part of the ongoing standards revision process, SHAPE America’s has tirelessly gathered research and best practices from education experts throughout the world, and has collected feedback from the HPE community. Based on the feedback from the first round of Public Review and Comment, SHAPE America, and the National Physical Education Standards Task Force have developed proposed Student Attributes and Draft Standards, which are now available for your review and comments. Don’t miss your chance to share your feedback during this .

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The Revision of the National Health Education and Physical Education Standards: An Administrative Perspective

As we begin a new year, the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America) continues to engage two national task forces to revise the national standards in health and physical education and I consider this work to be critical to the future of our profession. In regularly reviewing and revising our standards, we make certain that we include the latest research, hands-on teacher experiences, and best instructional practices from the field. Additionally, it allows us to continue to take a critical look at how our society and education have evolved around the essential work of student wellness in our schools.

In recent years, I served at my state level on our standards review team and found the work to be invaluable in serving the needs of every student. We made a lasting commitment to forging forward with progressive and responsive core ideas and disciplinary practices that speak to every community in my diverse state of New Jersey.  This is the task ahead for the national revision. In order to serve the needs of our young people across the nation, SHAPE America has the momentous responsibility of building national standards that echo the voice of every child in America.

I believe that this significant task means incorporating the very latest research on the critical and essential skills of physical movement in physical education and a focus on skill-based health education to foster a classroom of inquiry-based instruction.  We must incorporate the ability of students to contribute to and create a learning environment where they can thrive, grow and learn. Our future standards must reflect that student-focused approach.

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Editorial Board Announced for 2023

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PHE America has announced its editorial board members for 2023. 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 six-member board includes Brian Sather, a professor at Eastern Oregon University; Editor-in-Chief, Pete Van Mullem, a professor at Lewis-Clark State College and director of Sport Coach America; Rory Weishaar, an associate professor at Central 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.

For more information on the Editorial Team visit: https://sportcoachamerica.org/editorial-board/

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Active Classrooms Month (February)

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Each February, teachers and families across the country are encouraged to participate in Active Classrooms Month. The event will introduce ways to integrate movement into the classroom and demonstrate the positive impact it has on young people. We will share resources and tools to make it easy for teachers and parents/caregivers to use movement activities with their students/children.

Classroom physical activity helps students feel better, work together as a team, reduce anxiety, and maintain focus all while helping them learn and retain academic content. In addition, movement can be a great classroom and virtual learning management tool for teachers and caregivers by energizing tired or distracted students and calming students to prepare for learning and testing.

Show your commitment to participate by registering HERE and you will be eligible to win weekly prizes!

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The Educator Within: A Personal Reflection

I share my thoughts about my life journey and inspire students to trust and be all they can be from within. The following reflection is based on my interpretation of The God in You, by Robert Collier © 1937.  This is one of many books in my library chosen for the silent early hours of predawn. I hope it helps you reflect on why you do what you do – what we do, in working with youth.

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