IHPRA Newsletter
July 2009

 Iowa Team Fitness is a statewide initiative sponsored by a 2009 Federal Physical Education Program (PEP) Grant.
This month, students and instructors from Georgia, Texas, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa came to Johnston for a one-week America Team Fitness leadership camp.
Classroom topics included spinal health/posture, leadership, communication, citizenship, and substance abuse prevention.
    Hands-on training included medicine balls, dumbbells, agility ladders, Indian clubs,
inverted decompression & mobilization, tubing, conditioning drills, kettlebells, and classroom ergonomics.

The Kettlebell team practiced basic swings/Turkish Get-Up,
and they visited Iowa's Gold Star National Guard Museum
 
Sponsors and support included
The Iowa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
Sportime
Iowa Chiropractic Society
McDonald's Corporation
Hy-Vee Foods
Roberts Dairy
 
 
Video highlights from the Camp
 
 
 
This is an Iowa Team Fitness agility ladder video from one of the Elementary Schools
 
 
This is an ITF elementary medicine ball drill
 
 

AUSTIN — Health class will no longer be a state requirement for high school students this fall,
making Texas one of the few states in the country with no required health education.


Massachusetts once led the way in American physical education, but today --

Boston’s public schools have failed to provide any formal instruction in physical education to about 25 percent of the city’s students,
despite a state law that requires physical education be taught to all students in all grades.


NEW YORK -- A newly released study finds that kids who are in shape do better on academic tests.
During the 2007-2008 school year, students in New York City public schools who scored in the top 5 percent on their NYC Fitnessgram assessments
outscored the bottom 5 percent of students on standardized academic tests by an average of 36 percentile points, the study finds.

Illinois -- Physical activity can improve students’ cognitive control — or ability to pay attention —
and also result in stronger performance on academic achievement tests, according to a University of Illinois study published in the journal Neuroscience.
 


Several hundred million dollars have been spent on Federal Physical Education Program (PEP) grants.
This year, for instance, Judy LoBianco,
Supervisor of Health, Physical Education and Nursing Services
for the South Orange-Maplewood school district in New Jersey
will coordinate a $1,430,106 grant for her district.
"It's going to look like an exercise science lab," LoBianco said.

 

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