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Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs (CSPAP) aim to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyles among school-aged children and adolescents. This article describes the competencies needed for physical educators to implement CSPAP and synthesizes strategies and recommendations for infusing CSPAP into PETE programs.

This article describes activities that are presented to help PETE teacher candidates develop healthy and active lifestyle management (HALM) teaching competencies. We define two HALM teaching competencies (one-minute HALM tips and object lessons), give a description of where they appear in the curriculum, and how they are assessed after field teaching of K-12 students.

This article addresses how to design learning experiences that connect knowledge about motor development with motor learning. As evidenced in the SHAPE America National Standards and Grade-level Outcomes in Physical Education, understanding children’s phase and stage of motor development is essential to designing developmentally appropriate content, while applying the motor learning factors is critical to facilitating learning during the instructional process.

This article describes how one strength and conditioning youth development program implements the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) framework (Hellison, 2011), with a portfolio-based system. The purpose of this article is to share how we implement TPSR in our context by describing our daily program format and our graphic organizers that make up our portfolio system.

The purpose of this article is to present evidence-based strategies and underlying critical success factors for school-based recess implementation that can be used by health and education professionals to increase PA opportunities in urban elementary schools.

This article provides educators and coaches ways to assess one’s current levels of process and outcome orientations as well as interactive strategies to teach students or athletes about the process orientation. Additionally, the article acknowledges that both outcome and process orientations can serve a beneficial purpose at different times.

The court denied a preliminary injunction to a high school coach, who sought to continue his practice of kneeling down and praying at the 50-yard-line after his team’s football games. The school district had suspended the coach because of his practice, leading to his bid for an injunction because the school district was retaliating against him for exercising his First Amendment rights.

It is often challenging to persuade children to consume nutrient-dense vegetables, fruits and legumes. This article describes how renaming nutrient-dense plants to encourage young children to consume them can be an effective strategy.

As a multi-disciplinary field of study, kinesiology continues to be influenced by various academic disciplines such as biology, chemistry, education, history, math, philosophy, physics, psychology and sociology. This article highlights two important lessons that kinesiology can learn from the discipline of music.

This article describes how standards-based grading may be one way that the profession can move toward an accepted mode of grading students in physical education, which would demonstrate what students know and are able to do, as well as provide quality information to students, parents and teachers.