Active Schools has partnered with many non- and for-profit organizations that all hope to increase opportunities for quality physical activity in schools. As part of this collective impact mission, Active Schools offers the ability of schools, teachers, parents, or administrators to join the fray by becoming an Active Schools Champion!

When in person, we know how important it is to find novel, fun, and challenging activities for the students we serve. At times, that is difficult, but we find a way…We certainly can do the same in a virtual setting.

In a continued effort to share, collaborate, and support one another, we asked a handful of dedicated physical educators to reflect on their experiences with virtual learning, where they struggled, where they succeeded, and how they have grown from this experience! Complete bios and contact information from each of these dynamite physical educators can be found at the bottom of this post!

Rather than fretting about creating multiple lesson plans, let's try to create lessons that can be used in BOTH settings. That way, we can create meaningful and manageable content for the students, as well as ourselves. This FREE template can be used when creating such lessons. This resource is perfect for creating new lessons or repurposing old ones!

Families across the country are spending Mondays-Fridays juggling work from home, homeschools, technology coaching, and more for their children. At home learning, virtual school, blended learning, hybrid, distance learning is challenging for everyone.  Families are being inundated with information like classroom codes, Zoom links, schedules, and much more. All this coupled with our children not having their regular

We might not know the answers to how things will go this year or even what we will have to prepare for tomorrow, next week, or next month.  But we do know the power of quality physical education and we know what that looks like. And that does not change whether we are in person, online, distanced, or anything in between.