INSHAPE: Recent Episodes
Indiana SHAPE
Unleash the Power of our Why
Successful organizations and movements start with their WHY. What is our WHY? How can we use it to elevate the profession and provide the ultimate justification for including physical education in the core curricular? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this session! (First presented at EPEW 2020)
Movement Education - Success for All Through Divergent Discovery
Check out this session as we explore the Movement Education instructional model within the context of primary physical education. We will discuss the principles of the model, show some examples of what this can look like and have some exploratory activity time!
Developing and Engaging Minds
Learn how the brain relates to motor development and why there’s an increase of under-developed students. You will leave with information, activities, and strategies to shrink the developmental gaps, and help ALL of your students learn how to self-regulate and achieve movement and academic success in and out of your gym. You can easily implement these ideas into your program, your school, and your district.
Build Relationships Through Games
Games provide fun & memorable learning opportunities. These games are like seeds, containing clear learning objectives for our students to explore & achieve. Within these games are opportunities to practice life enriching skills. What I love about our profession is these "seeds" contain potential for lifelong learning which goes beyond the physical. A moving child is a learning child. So let's investigate how some games we already play can teach our students about relating to each other.
Love Yourself, Guided by Passion
Andy Hair, an Australian #physed icon, is passionate about helping you love yourself first. This session will be a be a embracing and inspirational conversation around positive psychology. He will share how he follows his life through passion and positivity giving him a fresh canvas everyday to paint his masterpiece.
SEL it: Brain, Body, Movement, Mood
There has never been a bigger need to infuse social-emotional learning (SEL) into your lesson plans and curriculum. As Dr. Jennifer McCormick, Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instruction, recently said, "A re-entry plan without addressing student & staff social-emotional and behavioral needs is simply not a plan." Yasmeen Taji-Farouki of SHAPE America shares a comprehensive social-emotional learning program for health and physcial eduction. Learn how health.moves.minds. can provide all the SEL resources (teacher-tested and freely available for all Indiana K-12 teachers) you will need for the upcoming school year.
Your Voice Matters
SHAPE America’s past president Jamie Sparks emphasizes the importance of using your voice to improve the H/PE profession and raise your standard of teaching. Jamie shares his experiences in the field and the lessons he has learned along the way.
Love Yourself, Guided by Passion
Andy Hair, an Australian #physed icon, is passionate about helping you love yourself first. This session will be a be a embracing and inspirational conversation around positive psychology. He will share how he follows his life through passion and positivity giving him a fresh canvas everyday to paint his masterpiece.
Meeting the “Heart Needs” of our Students
Dr. Akil Ross, 2018 National Principal of the Year, shares a powerful story of where his passion to educate the whole child began, in third grade with a teacher who believed in him and how that relationship transformed his life as a student and now educational leader. He provides not only practical advice for building leaders on how to create a “Vision Statement” and how to help staff take ownership of this vision each day in their classrooms, but also WHY this vision is so important for staff AND students.
Life Is The Future
Scott Todnem, 2019 National Health Educator of the Year, offers a vulnerable perspective on what it means to health education in an environment of uncertainty. We'll explore how he offers an authentic approach for educators worldwide to consider.
I'm Just Warming Up!
Candy Handy has been teaching health and physical education for thirty years. When pushed, she will tell you that it has definitely been 30 years, not one year, thirty times. The upcoming school promises new challenges and new opportunities. Learn how this veteran continues to re-invent herself, her curriculum, and the relationships with her students.
Skills-Based Health Education: A Deeper Look
In this session, Sarah Benes explores some key considerations and challenges in skills-based health education. She discusses ideas and strategies for implementing a skills-based approach in health education including gaining buy in, ideas for skill practice in person and online, a discussion of assessment and feedback . . . and more!
When Things Seem Out of Control, Take Charge!
The 2020-2021 school year "Back to School" checklist for teachers have new items that we have not seen before. Where others see challenge, some see opportunity. Becky and Mark Foellmer will dive into new things to consider not only for re-entry but for charting new paths. Learn ways you can begin to take charge of this fall’s school re-entry.
Serving ALL Students
As we look at heading back to school with all the possible options of delivery of physical education, we will discuss how to engage the students that are hardest to reach. Whether students are in a self-contained classroom or engaging in distance learning from home, we will talk about action steps and examples to tap into your resources of staff colleagues and technology and still have inclusion as an option. We will discuss collaboration with special education teachers, the use of technology to access physical education, and tools to engage learners from their homes. Specific examples will be shared that give simple strategies yet follow a lens of trauma informed practices, skill-based strengths, and social emotional supports. Our work is based on relationships and fun to teach ALL students to lead a healthy active life.
Roadmap to Recovery
In this session, learn how SHAPE Maryland came together during the pandemic to produce resources and guiding documents for those within the PE world. Their most recent project, SHAPE STRONG, considers all models of reentry and keeps H/PE standards and assessments in mind.
A New Model for PE is Necessary
Dr. Pangrazi reminds us that the original model for PE was designed after World War I with a major focus on fitness and fitness testing. So why is it, that years later, there hasn’t been a lot of change and some PE classes still look the same? Join us to hear about the need for different approaches and encouragement to focus on helping students be active for a lifetime.
Where Does Physical Literacy Fit Now?
In 2017, SHAPE America national convention and the INSHAPE state convention, Dean Kriellaars shared why physical literacy is on par with reading literacy. Fast forward to today, he re-visits the role of physical literacy in a new world with new ideas to emphasize literacy over fitness. His recent work with sports organizations shows why this applies to all learners, not just elite athletes.
The Question That is Not Getting Asked
John Norlin, co-founder of CharacterStrong, talks about the difference between culture and climate and how we can create school environments where students and staff want to be there vs feel like they have to be there. John talks about the question that is not getting asked and how CharacterDare Challenges, done with consistency, can have a positive impact both on the individual and on the greater school culture and climate.
An Introduction to Skills-Based Health Education
In this session, Holly Alperin shares some considerations for transitioning to a skills-based approach in the health education classroom. She provides us with an explanation of how a skills-based approach supports an increase in health literacy and self-efficacy through the development of learning experiences focused on students and helping them to use new learning outside of the classroom.
Where to Go After Disruption
In this session we discuss how physical educators have the choice to view this year’s return to school as an opportunity for improvement. Practical tips and considerations will be shared on how to create meaning within your class, building, and community.