Good News in Seattle Public Schools
Lori Dunn, Seattle Public Schools’ Physical Education and Health
Literacy Program Manager, has been honored with SHAPE America’s top
award for Physical Education administrators.
The Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE), the nation’s largest membership organization of Health and Physical Education professionals, announced that Dunn is the Channing Mann Outstanding Physical Education Administrator of the Year.
Among her many accomplishments:
These include:
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The Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE), the nation’s largest membership organization of Health and Physical Education professionals, announced that Dunn is the Channing Mann Outstanding Physical Education Administrator of the Year.
Among her many accomplishments:
- Forming and leading a district team of Physical Education specialists to write a comprehensive PreK-12 Physical Education Curriculum Guide.
- Partnering with a number of organizations to bring innovative fitness programs into our schools. Some examples include Cascade Bike Club, First Tee Golf, U.S. Tennis Association, Washington Soccer, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Medic One, Cascade Volleyball, and, significantly, the George Pocock Rowing Foundation. Pocock worked with Dunn on an Erg Ed Rowing Program that is being replicated across the country.
- Securing a number of grants and funding to support district programs, such as
- a partnership with the City of Seattle and the Cascade Bike Club for every students in grades 3-5 to receive biking and pedestrian safety instruction starting in fall 2016
- the Partnership for Improving Public Health (PICH) grant for early learning fitness of $204,000 for 2015-18
- the Carol M. White Physical Education for Progress (PEP) grant of $1.6 million for 2011-14
- Leading the task force that developed the district Wellness Policy approved in October 2015, providing equitable access to healthy food and physical activity across all district schools.
These include:
- BF Day Elementary
- Broadview-Thomson K-8
- Cleveland STEM High
- Hazel Wolf K-8
- Olympic Hills Elementary
- K-5 STEM at Boren
- Rainier Beach High
- Rainier View Elementary
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary
- Viewlands Elementary
- West Seattle Elementary
- Wing Luke Elementary
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Comments
However, I assume the district PE folks can't do much to help the schools that aren't getting enough PE, as that would most likely involve spending some money to hire more staff, and given the districts' recent efforts to short-staff school to the maximum extent possible, I can't see that they'd be allowed to do that.
Mom of 4
It wouldn't require hiring additional staff - it would require shifting staffing from some other position (art or music most likely.) Our school is on the three week rotation too - and the limiting factor is actually gym space. Elementary schools are open about six hours a day or 1,800 minutes a week. That means the gym can only be used by 18 classrooms per week at 100 minutes per classroom. At 25 students per class, that's just 450 students - and another example of how adding portables to schools doesn't really work.
LisaG
My child would love to have PE outside much of the time. There are weeks though where that would not be possible.
Yes I have (though not so much this time of year), but I was thinking of elementary schools without gyms in places like NY and NJ where it snows. Seattle is lucky if all of its elementary schools have gyms, although maybe some of the gyms are very small if they can only fit 25 students.
LisaG
They do have a nifty Move to Improve program in which teachers incorporate ten minute movement breaks in the classroom.