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🏫 Middle School Health Education Teacher 🏆 2021 National Health Education Teacher of The Year 🎤 Conference Presenter

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"Dicebreaker" Questions for the National Health Education Standards

"Dicebreaker" Questions for the NHES Happy Monday! At SHAPE Cleveland last month, Jessica Matheson and I presented a session called, "50 Tips in 50 Minutes!" We covered 50 different tools, strategies, and resources to help teachers improve their teaching in health education. We had an entire section on using dice based on Jessica's Slow Chat Health blog post from last year. After working to put our presentation together and hearing Jess's ideas, I knew I wanted to use dice more in my...

10 days ago • 2 min read

Happy March! I didn't get an email out in February. I had one ready to send, but I decided to sit on it for a little bit to adjust some of the information I shared before I send it out. In this email, I want to explain how I used a Google tool to scaffold the skill of accessing information in a sixth-grade health class. In my health class, when we cover the content area of puberty in the sixth grade, it's paired with the skill of accessing information from the National Health Education...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Happy New Year! I apologize for the click-baitish title! In today's newsletter, I want to share a free professional development resource that you use today that can help you level up your teaching in as little as 15 minutes. I'll also share other resources in a PDF. Read on for more information, or click the big blue buttons in this email to go right to the resources. Before I continue, I want to mention that I'm not affiliated with any of these resources or organizations in any way, and they...

4 months ago • 3 min read

Hello Reader, A common problem among educators is figuring out what assignments to give to students who finish assignments early, especially long-term projects. In today's newsletter, I'll show you how I used the concept of Depths of Knowledge and the artificial intelligence tool Magic Schools AI to help solve this problem. Here's a quick summary of what I did: I input the National Health Education Standards into a Magic School AI tool. I compiled the results for each standard I used one of...

5 months ago • 3 min read

Hi Reader, At the recent MAHPERD Annual Convention, I attended a presentation called, "Choose Your Own Adventure: A Tool for Fostering Discussion in Health Education," presented by Dr. Susan Milstein of Springfield College and one of her students, Danielle Pantano. My first conference presentations were with my professors when I was an undergraduate student at Springfield, so I try to attend any sessions that current Springfield students are presenting whenever I can. The session used the...

6 months ago • 2 min read

Friday, November 3rd 2023 Hello Reader, As I'm getting used to the new settings in Convertkit, I'm keeping my email templates pretty plain. In this newsletter, I'll discuss key strategies for making informed decisions about what content to include in your health education lessons. Please read on and reply if you have any questions, or if there are specific topics you'd like to see in future newsletters. Functional Health Content In undergrad, one of the first unit plans I put together for my...

6 months ago • 3 min read

October 23, 2023 Free Webinar This Week! Happy Monday! In today's edition of the Level Up Health Education Newsletter, I want to share a free webinar opportunity with you. I've also migrated my newsletter to ConvertKit. I'm looking forward to providing resources for you over the next few months; in addition to this newsletter, I'm developing some email courses and other learning opportunities, so stay tuned! It's been an interesting start to the school year. My colleague and I found out that...

7 months ago • 1 min read
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