let's move in school initiative >>
AAHPERD hosted the Let’s Move in School stakeholder meeting on October 12, at our corporate headquarters. Representatives from the National PTA, NFL Fuel Up to Play 60, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Action for Healthy Kids, Safe Routes to School, USTA, SPARK, Skillastics, National Association for Elementary School Principals, ASCD, American Heart Association, the Century Council, Save the Children and many others attended to hear from Shellie Pfohl, Executive Director for The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition. Other agenda items included overview of the recently released results of the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) 2011 Survey.
AAHPERD joined First Lady Michelle Obama, National Geographic Kids magazine, and President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition member and Olympian and Council Member Michelle Kwan on the South Lawn of the White House to break the Guinness World Record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period. Mrs. Obama kicked off the event, which spanned across the world. Read more.
- The first LMIS toolkit is nowavailable to current and future LMIS schools.
- We produced a new LMIS brochure to help promote the LMIS initiative to schools, parents, communities, policy makers, and the media.
- The LMIS webinar series for the 2011-2012 school year will take place the 2nd Wednesday of each month (except March) from 1-1:145pm EST. Don’t miss the next LMIS Webinar, Physical Activity Before and After School, on Wednesday, November 9th from 1:00-1:45pm EDT.
Let’s Move in School (LMIS) is a public awareness and action initiative targeted at physical education teachers, parents, principals, superintendents, and school boards with the goal of ensuring that every school provides a comprehensive school physical activity program (CSPAP) – with quality physical education as the foundation –so that students will develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be physically active for a lifetime. The five components of a CSPAP are physical education, physical activity during school, physical activity before and after school, staff involvement, and family and community involvement.
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