Letter from the Editor
By: Alex X. Martínez
Welcome back to the Quarterly Digest for Educators. This issue features an organization to promote the sport of volleyball in schools and communities, grants opportunities for physical education programs, new inclusive resources from NCHPAD, assessment instruments, and much more. We encourage you to share these resources with other educators, recreation specialists, coaches, or anyone interested in promoting inclusion in their physical education program.
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Physical Education Grant
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Are you looking for grants to help fund your Physical Education Program? Click
here
to access a list of grants supporting PE programs needs such as new equipment, facilities improvement, professional development, and much more.
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Talking to Students About Violence
Parents and school staff can help children cope with fears associated with acts of violence. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) provides tips for parents and teachers to help students establish a sense of normalcy after experiencing an act of violence. Click
here
to access these tips and other resources.
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In the Spotlight
By: Nicole "Nicky" Nieves
USA Women's National Sitting Volleyball
Limitless People Inc.
is a non-profit aimed towards providing opportunities for volleyball both sitting and standing to all. Its goal is to be a provider of volleyball tournaments, field teams to attend tournaments, clinics, and community outreach without limiting people based on age, gender, physical ability, or color. This organization wants to break the limits, both financially, and physically, allowing everyone from all levels to participate in a sport people know and love. Lack of opportunity is what binds many to a certain level, most often diminishing their chances of going any further in the sport. We want to take away what limits today’s volleyball population, thus enabling those to become Limitless People.
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Highlighted Resource:
Pocket Tool For Adapted Physical Education: A guide to a Successful Class
Adoption of lifelong healthy behaviors is influenced by adapted physical education (APE) experiences and participation, with the APE teacher acting as the facilitator for such experiences. This brochure highlights concepts and strategies to consider creating and maintaining a successful APE class. To download this brochure, please click
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Activity/Adaptation Cards
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Are you looking for ways to adapt popular sports for the classroom? Take a look at our new activity and adaptation cards. These cards are a new resource with information, tips, and pictures on how to adapt sports, activities, games, and equipment. The new set of cards includes adaptations for volleyball, American football, and basketball. To download these activity cards along with cards to adapt Winter Paralympic sports, please click
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This physical education unit introduces the sport of sitting volleyball to students of all abilities and skills. The unit includes drills and activities for teaching proper execution of sitting volleyball basic fundamentals.To check out this activity, please click
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What’s New in Adapted Physical Education: A Podcast
By: Scott McNamara
The “What’s New in Adapted Physical Education (APE)” podcast is sweeping the APE nation as this podcast aims to provide insight into the profession of APE through interviews with a variety of panels of APE professionals. Furthermore, this podcast is an attempt to provide an untapped means of easily receiving updates and best practice information with regard to APE. Since 2015, the podcast has developed over 30 episodes on a wide range of topics, ranging from leadership within the field to working with children with specific disabilities (e.g., visual impairments, Down syndrome). Within the podcast, there have also been a plethora of renowned experts to be a part of the APE panels, including APE experts such as Dr. Arnhold, Dr. Lieberman, Dr. Ulrich, and Dr. Lavay to name a few. These expert panel interviews give listeners an assortment of strategies and ideas that can be put to use in many types of APE settings. As of most recently, the last two episodes have focused on a review of the new APE textbook, “Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment (2nd Ed)” and an interview with three APE experts who deliver professional development pertaining to APE best practices throughout the state of Texas.
Lastly, the creator of the ‘What’s New in APE’ podcast also uses the podcasts to conduct research studies that have thus far examined the effectiveness in teaching APE professionals and related professionals (e.g., special education administrators) about topics related to APE. The podcast can be found on iTunes and Stitcher, or you can visit the accompanying blog of the podcast
mrmcnamaras.blogspot.com
. If you have any questions about the podcast or have an idea for a new episode, please feel free to email the creator and host, Scott McNamara at
smcnamara@twu.edu
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