Why I Integrate Social and Emotional Learning Into My Health and Physical Education Classes

My journey to better understand social and emotional learning (SEL) and its connection to health and physical education began about two years ago. While we were evaluating our health education curriculum, an administrator asked where social and emotional learning was being taught in our program.

I decided to do some research and familiarized myself with the widely used framework developed by the [...]

Redefining Our Community

During my year as president of SHAPE America, my theme will be ROC, which stands for Redefining Our Community. The message of ROC will be simply about raising the bar for every health and physical educator — and no longer accepting being on the back burner.

Our students have great needs emotionally, socially and physically. We are their community and we cannot be complacent, simply accepting things the way they have been. Every child — in every school and every community — needs a champion to boldly take a stand for them. We must be that champion!