#OPENPEHearts
The news and personal stories coming out of Texas and Florida over the past two weeks have kept me awake. I’ve been praying for friends and family, thinking about how to help, and, honestly, [...]
Jim DeLine’s Welcome Back Message (2016)
It’s 8:00 p.m. and I’m in bed. It must be a new school year. There should be a reality show titled “The First Two Weeks Of School.” The weak would certainly not survive. For us [...]
NYC Citywide PE Conference 2016
Thank you to the NYC Office of School Wellness. I love sharing OPEN with NYC colleagues! Here's the handout: Depth of Knowledge & Tiered Questioning (PDF)
2016 Conference Handouts
The 2016 Conference Tour is underway! This page hosts PDFs of selected conference slides from OPEN presentations. Conference Slides Nutrition Outcomes & Instant Activities: [PDF] What's My Job?! The Evaluation Opportunity: [PDF] [...]
What’s Next?
OPEN Community Curriculum Coach Development
OPEN has taken us on an indescribable journey over the past 7 months. However, thanks to the #PhysEd community and the support of US Games, we’re about to shift gears yet again and accelerate the [...]
OPEN and the Outcomes: Working to Fill the Holes
Today’s blog is a multimedia experiment as I try to communicate OPEN’s development process with respect to filling the holes in our scope and sequence. As I’ve mentioned before, OPEN is a curriculum project that [...]
OPEN Post-Launch: Gratitude, Trust, and Hard Work
It’s been an incredible week for the OPEN project, as well as for me personally. Eight months of hard work was unveiled for the world to see, begin using, and evaluate. The OPEN project has [...]
Give a Kahoot in Physical Education
Finding new ways to incorporate technology into physical education is always exciting, but not always easy. The game-based classroom response system, Kahoot, is an easy and fun way to integrate technology, and see how much [...]
Acceptance, Activity & Academic Rigor
Looking for a mid-Winter challenge? Let’s target Outcome E4.4b from Standard 4: “Accepts players of all skill levels into the physical activity.” For many physical educators and PE advocates, this outcome falls right into our [...]
Invisible Dumbbells and Muscular Endurance for Children
I’ve been working with National Physical Education Standard 3 over the past few weeks, looking for ways to help elementary students meet the various grade level outcomes for Fitness Knowledge. When in doubt, begin with [...]
Physical Education With A Purpose
As a veteran Physical Education teacher, I have realized that every class I teach has a different personality and therefore, needs to be taught with a different technique. The biggest challenge I have faced is [...]
Standards, Outcomes, and Fun!
Don’t throw out the fun stuff!!! In conversations that I’ve had around outcomes-based, backward design the single largest stumbling block for teachers seems to be the misconception that backward design means starting over from scratch. [...]
Taking a Virtual Road Trip with Accelerometers
Three years ago, I received a grant from the Suffolk Zone NYS AHPERD for the purchase of accelerometers. For the last two years, I have been experimenting with ways to incorporate them into my classes in [...]
Maximize Your FITNESSGRAM Reports
Numbers may bore you, but the fact is, data drives decisions and FITNESSGRAM10 offers concrete individual and group data that can make an impact if communicated and used appropriately. The mission statement, as well as [...]
Depth of Knowledge Question Stems for Physical Education
Are you trying to understand rigor, depth of knowledge (DOK), and evaluation frameworks? What ever happened to good old-fashioned skill and fitness development? With increasing emphasis and accountability based on academic rigor, physical educators find [...]
Conference Handouts from the US Games Presenters’ Network
Thank you for attending a US Games Presenters' Network Conference Presentation! For your convenience we're posting many of our handouts here for viewing and downloading. Jim DeLine: Illinois SHAPE Conference: Think Outside the Ball (11/20/2014) Joanna [...]
Prioritize Goal Setting and BIG Changes Can Happen
When teachers show students how to set and track health-related goals, they empower children to take control of their own health. This is one of the most important pieces of a Quality Physical Education (QPE) [...]
Basketball Nutrition
This post dives deeper into the concept of blending MyPlate Nutrition Education with Instant Activities to start your physical education lessons. I wanted to provide another activity example (see link below) in order to highlight [...]
Academic Integration Ideas
Here are 5 Academic Integration activity ideas from Nick Kline, NBPT – author of PETop5.com. 1) Colored Dice Sport Skill Review Lesson: At the end of many of the units I teach, I use this [...]
Planning for Integration: Fitness Pentathlon
This week I’m posting a short bonus article to share an academic integration idea with you. It includes a short 1-page discussion of the standards- and outcomes-based process I used when developing the activity. Please review [...]
Nutrition Quick-Starts with MyPlate
Teaching students about nutrition and healthy eating is an essential component of quality physical education. However, many teachers struggle to find the time to fit nutrition education into an already packed schedule. Here’s one solution… [...]
Who Cares About PE?
I care about Physical Education – maybe to a fault. Seventeen years ago I joined the Phys Ed Community as a young and idealistic teacher. I was ready to change the world - I still [...]
An Intro to Academic Language in PE
Here’s an essential concept for any physical educator working to elevate a PE program to Core Subject Status – Academic Language. Academic Language is a term that is often associated with the current College and [...]
USGames Presenters Network
The New US Games Presenters Network offers educational workshops, conference presentations and product and program trainings that can be customized to meet your school’s or district’s unique needs. We can build out the PERFECT program [...]