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Arizona Health and Physical Education is honored to partner with Confidence Kits to help those in need. Join us at the convention this year and bring in items to donate to this great organization. We will have a bin at the main registration booth for you to place items. Confidence Kits will also have a booth in the Exhibit Hall …
Arizona Health and Physical Education is proud to partner with Confidence Kits. Confidence Kits is a non-profit born out of a group of loving and giving friends who provided hygiene kits to food banks as birthday gifts to one another, as a way of celebrating and giving back to others in need. They are completely volunteer staffed! This year, at …
Minutes count! Someone who is severely bleeding can bleed to death in as little as 5 minutes. That’s why bleeding control—keeping the blood inside the body—is the purpose of STOP THE BLEED® training. Join certified trainers, Pete Boyle and Nick Scott, who will lead attendees through a two-part training that will help them learn proper procedures to stop the bleed. …
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OPEN is ready with a new harvest of Pumpkin Patch Games! They have added new activities and refreshed your favorites from years past. There are now 18 Pumpkin Patch activities to keep your students moving through Halloween. Use the behavior rubric and academic language cards to reinforce positive engagement. Go to the Pumpkin Patch now!
Log in to your Educator Dashboard and report your usage of the Healthy Food, Mind, Body unit under the “Game Time” Step for a chance to win a yoga mat! The deadline to enter is October 21. In this unit, students learn new skills that connect social and emotional learning and the practice of healthy eating; lessons will ask students to identify …
Health Literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others. Health Literacy allows us to take control of our well-being by making smart, informed decisions about our health choices and communicating our needs to advance our health. If you look at …
The mission of Active Schools is to integrate evidence-based physical activity programs into every student’s PK-12 education. To support this effort, we partnered with the University of Northern Colorado Active Schools Institute to create resources that support an active school culture. These include Guiding Framework, Evaluation Handbook, Menus of Evidence-Based Practices, and a School Implementation Guide. The resources can be used …
Join us November 1-3, 2022 at the Phoenix Convention Center South Building for the 2022 Arizona Health and Physical Education State Convention. Interested in becoming an Exhibitor or Sponsoring an event? Email Lynn Preble at preble@azhpe.org Registration for the 2022 State Convention is also currently available at 2022 Arizona Health and Physical Education State Convention Registration We are excited to present …
PHOENIX — A Phoenix-based program is using baseball as therapy for those with cognitive impairments, such as Alzheimer’s, and veterans in the VA with chronic physical disabilities. One of the facilities they partner with is the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix. The Society for American Baseball Research has created a “Baseball Memories” program to facilitate discussions and reminisce about the …