Workshops
Top-tier training for your school or district
SHAPE America offers Signature Workshops on Physical Best, the National Physical Education Standards and National Health Education Standards, adapted physical education, and skills-based health education.
A Customized Workshop option is also available, allowing you to choose the format, length, and topics that work best for your school. These live workshops can be offered as virtual or in-person sessions.
Physical Best Workshops
These all-new interactive Physical Best workshops are offered as standalone half-day sessions — or combined into a full-day Physical Best training for K-12 teams and districts.
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Goal Setting in PE
In this interactive workshop, participants will explore practical ways to teach students how to set, monitor and reflect on personal fitness and activity goals. The workshop emphasizes student ownership, motivation and growth-minded assessment practices that help learners connect daily participation to lifelong health. Activities will align with Physical Best, Fifth Edition.
Through hands-on activities and discussion, participants will:
- Explain the role of goal setting and self-reflection in building student motivation and confidence in physical education;
- Practice developmentally appropriate strategies for helping students create specific, measurable and meaningful fitness and activity goals;
- Experience elementary- and secondary-level activities that embed goal tracking, self-assessment and progress monitoring;
- Design feedback routines that support student agency while honoring diverse abilities, interests and starting points;
- Leave with ready-to-use tools for goal-setting collaboration, student reflection and family communication to support active lifestyles beyond the gym.
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Health-Related Fitness in PE
In this interactive, half-day workshop, participants will discover how to make fitness in physical education meaningful, inclusive and engaging for all students. The workshop highlights updated PE standards, hands-on activities and best practices for assessment, connecting fitness concepts to lifelong health. Activities for this workshop will align with Physical Best, Fifth Edition, scheduled for publication in March 2026.
Through hands-on activities and discussion, participants will:
- Trace the progression of fitness learning from PreK through high school, identifying age-appropriate instructional touchpoints;
- Describe developmentally appropriate fitness concepts (HRCF, SRCF, FITT) and discuss how these progress through each grade span;
- Engage in elementary-level and/or secondary-level fitness activities and analyze how a variety of strategies support both skill and concept development;
- Evaluate current assessment practices in fitness education and justify strategies that are inclusive, sensitive and supportive of all student abilities and body types;
- Walk away with ready-to-implement activities and assessment strategies, as well as a clear vision for how fitness education can connect students to health and wellness for life.
National Standards Workshops
These interactive workshops will equip educators with a comprehensive understanding of the new SHAPE America National Physical Education Standards and National Health Education Standards — and are available as half-day or full-day options.
Implementing the New SHAPE America National Physical Education Standards
This interactive workshop will leave you equipped with a comprehensive understanding of the new SHAPE America National Physical Education Standards. After the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Examine the shifts and changes in the revised National Physical Education Standards;
- Analyze and unpack the newly introduced grade-span learning indicators, previously known as grade-level outcomes;
- Explain effective strategies to integrate the new progressions into teaching and learning; and
- Develop practical approaches to enhance curriculum development.
Whether you select the half-day or full-day workshop option, you will leave with a solid foundation for crafting your curriculum around the new National Physical Education Standards.
Implementing the New SHAPE America National Health Education Standards
This interactive workshop will leave you equipped with a comprehensive understanding of the new SHAPE America National Health Education Standards. After the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify key components and themes of the revised National Health Education Standards;
- Explore how health skills and performance indicators can be used to guide curriculum and instruction; and
- Outline a skills-based activity aligned with the revised National Health Education Standards.
Whether you select the half-day or full-day workshop option, you will leave with a solid foundation for crafting your curriculum aligned with the new National Health Education Standards, enabling you to take your health education instruction to the next level.
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Workshops
Available as half-day or full-day options, these workshops equip educators with practical tools, evidence-based strategies, and ready-to-apply approaches that support student success.
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Effective Strategies in
Adapted Physical Education
This engaging workshop on adapted physical education is designed to provide educators with the tools and knowledge to create inclusive physical education programs for students with various abilities. Through interactive activities and practical examples, you will gain a deeper understanding of fostering a supportive and equitable learning environment with the SHAPE America National Physical Education Standards serving as the foundation.
This session will explore strategies for adapting standards-based activities in a physical education environment to meet individual needs, ensuring all students can participate meaningfully and safely.
Participants will learn about:
- Program planning;
- Various learning domain supports;
- Implementation of inclusive strategies in physical education.
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A Primer for Teaching a Skills-Based Approach in Health Education
This workshop provides the fundamentals of a skills-based approach to health education in which the focus is on developing student proficiency in the skills of the SHAPE America National Health Education Standards. There will be discussion on strategies for facilitating skill development through relevant and functional information.
Whether you select the half-day or full-day workshop option, you will leave with a solid foundation for crafting your curriculum aligned with the new National Health Education Standards, enabling you to take your health education instruction to the next level.
Customized Workshops
Select the workshop format, length and topics that work best for your school! These live workshops can be offered as virtual or in-person sessions — from 1-2 hours (virtual only) up to a half or full day (virtual or in person), depending on your needs.
One of our qualified trainers will build a personalized workshop after discussing the topics you want covered in the session. Example topics include classroom management, strategies for working with larger classes, incorporating health education into your physical education classes, and more.
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