“If you are not advancing, you are retreating.” A quote from Four-Star General Oliver P. Smith. Teaching is not unlike war, in an abstract sense. There are many daily battles that are won, and there are many that are lost. Some of those battles are in the classroom, and some are outside of it. But it is a war worth …
Membership Drive
Please (Click Here) to go to the Membership Portal to join Arizona Health and Physical Education. Please (Click Here) if you are a new (first-time) member of Arizona Health and Physical Education Association. Please fill out this form to receive your free t-shirt.
Updated Session Descriptions for Virtual State Convention
Three days and counting! The launch of our Virtual Convention starts on Monday, February 22nd, 6:00 PM! It’s time to go out with a bang! We are so excited to bring you 46 amazing sessions! We have some very special sessions for you so please be sure to check them all out. There are 10 Exhibitors joining us for this …
More Adventure on the Way!
Arizona Health and Physical Education is working hard to bring the best possible virtual professional development we can. We are adding more sessions daily. We hope you will find all of our virtual sessions useful and something you can take back to your classroom, whether it be virtual, hybrid or live. Each session is still best practices in our field …
Announcement from Arizona Adapted Physical Education Committee
Statement regarding the 2021 Adapted Physical Education Conference: The Arizona Adapted Physical Education Committee would like to announce that the 2021 Conference will be held on Wednesday, February 24th at the Phoenix Convention Center – South Building as part of the Arizona State Convention. After careful consideration regarding the health and safety of everyone that would be attending, we have …
Healthy LEAP Into Fitness
Register Today! Special Olympics of Arizona (SOAZ’s) Healthy LEAP into Fitness (HLIF) program is modeled to include health education, class activities, and group workouts! The curriculum is designed to be taught in an eight-week format, as a team at practice, in health promotion or fitness class, or within a community program or group home. HLIF focuses on four pillars of …
Keep Girls In Sport – A DIGITAL CURRICULUM FOR COACHES, MENTORS, AND ROLE MODELS FOR GIRLS.
Girls drop out of sports at twice the rate of boys by age 14. Research shows that one significant cause of girls’ dropout rate is a lack of positive coaches and female role models. This International Day of the Girl, we set out to co-create an interactive digital curriculum that offers training specifically for coaching girls. Help her stay in the …
Take Action Today! September 19, 2019
Please join the health and physical education community TODAY by sending a letter to Congress and flooding social media with advocacy messages about the importance of fully funding Title IV, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for FY20. For FY19, Congress increased funding for Title IV, Part A to $1.17 billion — a $70 million increase over the previous year. Congress …
Arizona’s 17th Adapted Physical Education Conference Schedule- February 15, 2018
7:30- 8:30 Registration and Breakfast-Atrium at Ability 360 8:30- 9:00 (Gym) Kick it up a Notch! – Presented by Danielle O’Reilly and Stephanie DiPiazza 9:10- 10:00 (Conference Room) Community Adaptive Sports Organizations – Presented by Tim Binning (Gym) Modified Tennis – Presented by Jill Christiansen and Jackie Marxx 10:10- 11:50 (Conference Room) Keynote Presentation- Inclusion in PE in the US and Around the …