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Building Equity and Accessibility into Youth Sports

Participation in youth sports has many benefits that include improved fitness, health, flexibility, muscle strength, cognitive functioning, mental health, and social-emotional wellbeing. Playing sports at an early age can help maintain optimal body weight, reducing the risk of childhood obesity.

Job-embedded Professional Development: Teachers Learning by Doing and Connecting with Each Other

The classroom is a learning laboratory—not just for students but also for teachers. Human beings are complex. Individuals think and learn in diverse ways. There is no “one size fits all” model of learning and teaching. Classroom teachers must constantly adapt their teaching methods to meet students where they are.

First in Response, First in Fitness: The Physical Demands of Being an Emergency Responder

For emergency responders new to the profession, the fitness levels they achieve during their training as well as how they manage daily stress can go a long way in determining later job performance. Emergency responders, also known as tactical athletes, include firefighters, law enforcement officers, emergency medical personnel, and military service members.

Aerobic Exercise and Resistance Training: A Full Complement of Health Benefits

Some people think that a routine of running, jogging, power walking, or other forms of aerobic exercise is all that you need to do to achieve and maintain maximum physical fitness and health. There is no question that these activities are an excellent form of exercise. But for most adults, an exercise program offering the greatest level of health benefit is one that consists of a combination of aerobic activity and resistance training.

Lifelong Learning Improves Teaching Skills

Every teacher wants to create an optimized learning environment that provides the students in their classroom the best opportunity for success. One way to do this is for teachers to make an investment in themselves—an investment that will equip them with the knowledge and confidence they need to excel as educators.

What’s Trending in Fitness and Exercise?

As knowledge on the importance of exercise and physical activity in maintaining a healthy lifestyle continues to expand, certain issues and trends in the fitness industry are at the forefront.

The Importance of Mathematics Specialist Leaders

Enhancing the instructional skills of classroom teachers, increasing content knowledge in mathematics, building a community of peers where educators can find support—these are essential functions carried out by mathematics specialist leaders. Equally important is their role in being an advocate for change—change that will shift instructional approaches in achieving equitable math teaching and learning in schools.

Why it’s important for athletic trainers to view their patients holistically.

Health care professionals sometimes look at their patients through a one-dimensional lens where they focus primarily on the patient’s physical symptoms. The patient is a “case.” But an effective treatment plan, especially when it comes to pain management, requires health care professionals, including athletic trainers, to understand a patient’s physical issues and their psychological and social needs.

Esports and online video gaming: We’ve come a long way from the original Spacewar!

“How it started, how it’s going.” You may have seen the popular meme on X (formerly known as Twitter) that some people use to make a “then and now” comparison. For esports, how it started can be traced back to October 1972 when the first video game tournament in history, the “Intergalactic Spacewar! Olympics,” was held in the Artificial Intelligence Lab on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Going for Gold: The Business Side of the Olympic Games

With the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France just around the corner, thousands of athletes will soon be competing in 32 different sports that will be broadcast to people around the world through television, radio, and digital platforms. The Olympic Broadcasting Services is expected to produce more than 11,000 hours of content that will be provided to over thirty media organizations worldwide under media rights agreements negotiated with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing body of the Olympics.