SHAPE Colorado 2024 State Convention

Strong policies improve conditions for quality PE program delivery. A multiyear national surveillance project was launched to track PE policy implementation. Session attendees will learn about this project and ways to advocate for PE in Colorado.

This session utilizes case studies and scenario protocols to reveal practical steps teachers can take to help ensure a safe environment for students to learn.

Session Objectives:

• Given a typical school-based scenario, participants can identify the potential hazards to student safety, and how to mitigate risk.  
• Participants will identify their duty to student health & safety in their role as teacher.  
• Participants recognize the elements of an effective safety plan.

Presenters will discuss the new SHAPE America Standards 3 and 4 focusing on practical applications of developing social skills and personal skills objectives in meaningful, explicit, and relevant ways.  Participants will also be engaged in dialogue how to move beyond implicit teaching of these standards in culturally relevant and with best practices in mind.

Session Objectives:

• Reflection of past, current and future best and culturally relevant practices
• Assessment of centering the student/s and whole child approach
• Create purposeful lessons that explicitly teach social and personal skills  

Introduction to CORE PE curriculum system based on the NEW K-12 SHAPEAM standards. This program accounts for your teaching variables helping you design high quality PE while saving planning time when using skill breakdowns and the assessment system, making teaching more enjoyable. Free program giveaways!

Let's Talk! The Colorado Area Health and Physical Education Coordinators are live and in person to talk shop about all the things current in our schools. Some rad advice, hot topics and ways to take your programs to the next level.

Session Objectives:

• Meaningful Health and Physical Education practices
• Current trends in schools regarding Health and Physical Education
• Ways to take your program to the next level

Explore the complexities of the coming out process, why it's challenging, and how each scenario is unique. We'll cover essential dos and don'ts for supporting students, with an emphasis on creating inclusive PE environments. If time permits, engage in small group discussions on supporting individuals in health/PE during their coming out journey.

While fitness testing is considered to be a routine part of PE programs, the test administration, protocols and results are often considered to suspect. Is fitness testing relevant anymore?

Session Objectives:

• Physical Education
• Health
• Technology
  

Looking for ideas and activities for a traverse climbing wall? Attendees will discover a variety of dynamic climbing wall activities that develop physical, social-emotional and cognitive skills at beginner, intermediate and advanced climbing levels. This comprehensive presentation also reviews best practices and safety/risk management protocols and provides valuable teaching tips. 

Session Objectives:

1.    Learn climbing wall best practices including basic climbing techniques, safety and risk management protocols.
2. See how to facilitate a variety of climbing wall activities that help develop physical, social-emotional and cognitive skills.
3.    Acquire a library of rock-climbing activities differentiated for varied ability levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced).

This session will provide attendees with practical ideas for implementing trauma-informed practices specifically in a physical education setting.  Culturally relevant and equity centered perspectives will be presented, and participants will apply ideas to their own contexts.

Participants will be able to:

• Define trauma and adverse childhood experiences
• Identify trauma informed/aware practices in physical education
• Consider culturally relevant and equity centered perspectives
• Create a plan to extend, enhance, and expand on the ideas presented in the session