As a physical education teacher, Toni Allen's job is to get kids moving. And back at the beginning of last school year, she hit upon an idea: what if her students could accurately count and measure their progress? What if they could compete?
Pam Castleberry, a physical education teacher for the Mad River Local School District, was appointed a representative to the Midwest district of the Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, the professional organization for physical education, health and dance teachers working with students from preschool to college. I'm the adapted physical education chairwoman for the state organization, but this is my first appointment to the Midwest district," said Castleberry, who was appointed by the executive committee of the Ohio Association for Health Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
The 50 minutes per week that Lewisburg Elementary School physical education teacher Holly Robinson gets to spend with each student is priceless. They're sweet kids," she said. "They really want to do well.
Renata Maiorino is a dreamer; she also is adept at fulfilling those dreams. As a 9-year-old in Enna, Sicily, she dreamed of coming to America and living on a street of gold in a house in the woods.
Polly Sue Tice, a physical education teacher and Catholic school administrator, died Thursday in her Buffalo home. She was 51. Born Polly Sue Jennejahn in Hilton, outside of Rochester, she excelled in sports, playing varsity soccer, basketball, softball and volleyball at Hilton High School, from where she graduated in 1976.
Estelle "Posy" Marshall, who was a physical education teacher in Buffalo and later a reading specialist in Silver Creek, died Friday at the Weinberg Campus, Getzville. She was 86. Born Estelle Ricigliano in Buffalo, she grew up on the West Side and graduated from Grover Cleveland High School. During her teenage years, she won several jitterbug contests with her brother.
Marjorie Queen, a physical education teacher for the Portland Public Schools, believes the healthier kids are, the happier and more confident they will be. Queen, a teacher at Longfellow, Adams and West schools, says she has the best job in the world - preparing children for a lifetime of physical activity. Gym classes are no longer spent playing mindless games of dodge ball and kick ball. Physical education today is about teaching kids motor skills, physical fitness and social interaction. It's about working with other teachers to integrate general studies into physical education and vice versa.
Chesapeake Area All-Stars, representing Anne Arundel County Public Schools, traveled to Dallas in April for the U.S.-Texas Open National Sport Stacking Championships. They were joined by students from over 36 states and 16 countries to compete in the speedy sport of stacking and unstacking cups in specific sequences. The Chesapeake Area All-Stars attend five different schools: Deale Elementary, Four Seasons Elementary, Jacobsville Elementary, Chesapeake Bay Middle and Southern Middle and are coached by Judy Schmid, physical education teacher at Jacobsville.
DOWNS -- In fall 1996, while her father was in a Chicago intensive-care unit recovering from a heart transplant, Sally Wannemacher saw people die. They didn't die of the heart transplant," she said. They died of lung failure because of lack of exercise.
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