Make It A Great Let’s Move in School Year!
Here’s your opportunity to join the MOVEment to get students physically active before, during and after school! AAHPERD has planned a wide range of Let’s Move in School (LMIS) activities this fall. From creating specially designed toolkits for physical education teachers and principals to participating in high profile national events with major celebrities to a series of LMIS Webinars, AAHPERD wants everyone to join forces and show the world that every school in America is committed to getting kids physically active.
Register your school today for Let’s Move in School! Here’s why:
- Be the first to know about new LMIS resources and toolkits
- Get your free LMIS poster to hang in your school gymnasium
- Receive invitations to special LMIS events Hear about special opportunities with celebrity athletes Take advantage of a LMIS press release to spread the word about your school’s involvement
- Free Online Resources
Schools are powerful places for cultivating physically active, friendly environments which will help in affecting academic performance and ensure children’s success and well-being. No group of individuals has more potential to increase physical activity among students and staff in schools than physical education teachers. That is why AAHPERD has created the Let’s Move in School Physical Education Teacher Toolkit just for you.
This free online toolkit will provide you with easy- to- use resources and activities every month that will help you educate your administrators, school board members, parents and colleagues about the importance of a comprehensive school physical activity program with physical education as its foundation. Every month you will find:
· A single focused theme
· Physical activity break ideas
· A communication to parents
· Tips and resources
· News about upcoming webinars
Share this toolkit at www.letsmoveinschool.org with other physical education teachers and together we can create a physically active, friendly environment where all children and youth are getting a minimum of 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
A hard copy Let’s Move in School Toolkit is also being produced for schools which include a menu of physical activity ideas for all school levels, 101 Tips for Implementing A Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program, a ready to use PowerPoint about Let’s Move in School DVD, Active Kids and Academic Performance brochure and LMIS poster/brochure and much more. Be sure to get your own copy while supplies last.
· Register for the first Let’s Move in School webinar: Implementing a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program on Wednesday, September 14. You’ll benefit from examples and receive tips on how physical educators, parents, school administrators, and policymakers can get involved in bringing quality physical education and physical activity to schools through a comprehensive school physical activity program (CSPAP).
· On Monday, October 17 AAHPERD will host its first annual Let’s Move in School Stakeholders Meeting at the Reston headquarters. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together national organizations, government agencies and corporate partners to identify strategies to increase before, during and after school physical activity for students and staff to enhance health and performance.
Nearly 6,000 schools across the country, representing over four million students and 21,000 physical education teachers, have registered for www.LetsMoveInSchool.org, an initiative of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). Developed in April 2010, Let’s Move in School supports Let's Move! , First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation. Joining the AAHPERD family of national, district, and state associations in support of both of these initiatives are leading education associations, federal partners, and corporate partners in an effort to help schools coordinate physical activity before, during, and after school.
If you have not registered your school for LMIS, please do so www.LetsMoveInSchool.org
Let's Move in School Goal
To ensure that every school provides a comprehensive school physical activity program with quality physical education as the foundation so that youth will develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be physically active for a lifetime.
Fall Events
· Free Let’s Move in School Webinars will be held the second Wednesday of every month. To register go to www.LetsMoveInSchool.org.
New Action Projects
The free online Let’s Move in School toolkit for physical education teachers is now available. Visit the website monthly to learn of ways to promote a comprehensive school physical activity program. The Let’s Move in School toolkit targeted to principals has been sent to over 2,500 registered schools. Let’s Move in School posters and brochures are available.Another new resource is the brochure called 101 Tips for Implementing a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program.
Coming Soon
The free online Let’s Move in School toolkit for PTAs/PTOs will be available in October.The free online Let’s Move in School Superintendent/School Board online toolkit will be available in October.Results of the 2011 Comprehensive School Physical Activity Survey will be released on October 12.
Let’s Move in School Partners
Strategic Partners: ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), American Association of School Administrators (AASA), and National School Boards Association (NSBA)
Federal Partner: President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
Over 50 Organizational Supporters
Corporate Partners (to-date): Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, American Beverage Association, Hershey’s Track and Field Games, ING, Skillastics, HOPSports, PlayCore, Playworld Systems, and Speed Stacks
The AAHPERD staff has been very busy this summer developing excellent resources to help schools implement comprehensive school physical activity programs. I thought you might like to see some of them. We hope that you will agree that these are valuable resources and that you will want to promote these materials to your district leadership, principals and PTAs.
101 Tips for Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs.
Have you also seen the brochure Active Kids and Academic Performance? It’s great for parents and administrators. http://www.aahperd.org/letsmoveinschool/upload/NASPE-AcademicsBrochureFINAL.pdf
There are also three other Let’s Move in School toolkits and all three are online (free) at www.LetsMoveInSchool.org
· Physical Education Teacher Toolkit – available now
· PTA/PTA Toolkit – available approximately Oct 1
· Superintendent/School Board Toolkit – available later in October
LMIS powerpoint about implementing a comprehensive school physical activity program in your school.