Teacher Of The Year Winners

My day to day routine allows me to embrace health and fitness as a way of living and it makes it easy to share these experiences with my students. While they may joke around with me about packing my elementary school lunch of peanut butter & jelly and carrots, I know they are watching and […]

I have been an advocate for equal opportunity for all students since I began working with this student population in 2007. I learned very quickly that if students are not able to learn effectively and efficiently using my teaching methods, then I must adapt my methods to the way that they learn. As an advocate

To plan, I use the National Lesson Plan Creator to choose the Shape America Standards, technology integration, and activities that we will address in order to meet the standards. I also have incorporated into my physical education website a page that includes all the standards and grade level outcomes to share with students and their

Eric Armstrong 2016 Middle School Physical Education at McCullough Middle School I believe that it is important to practice what you preach.  I jump right in with my students during activities to show them I’m not asking them to do anything that I wouldn’t.  This helps me to build bonds with students so that I

Arden Miller 2016 Elementary School Physical Education Teacher of the Year at Wilson Elementary School. As a physical educator I believe that a sound body and a sound mind are the same. Physical education is an integral part of a student’s academic growth. Students need to move to think. My goal is to give students