There is a pressing need to address recruitment and admission challenges for physical education and health education teacher education (PETE/HETE) programs. Many PETE/HETE programs are struggling to recruit students and this has important implications for PETE/HETE’s contribution to the teacher pipeline, teaching quality, and K-12 student learning.

SHAPE America's position: SHAPE America believes that a preK-12 comprehensive skills-based health education program is a critical component of a student’s well-rounded education in order to support healthy and academically successful students.

SHAPE America's position: SHAPE America supports schools' use of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model as a framework for ensuring that students are healthy and successful academically.