Join the Coalition for Quality Physical Education
- Advocate the importance of quality, standards-based physical education to parents, school boards, administrators, and policy makers.
- Promote the National Standards and Grade-Span Learning Indicators in order to help all children achieve physical literacy so they can be active for life.
- Support teachers and future professionals who are committed to this mission by providing or facilitating no cost access to quality resources, curriculum, professional development, conference fees, equipment, and more.
We all benefit from a more fit and healthy population. Aside from the overall improvement in health and wellness, health-care costs go down, workers become more productive, and students learning improves. Physical activity is a tool that all children should learn how to use to boost the quality of their lives.
Companies who profit from physically active people might consider the long-term investment of supporting the existing infrastructure that is school-based physical education. When it is done right, it “produces” young adults who are physically literate, and have a desire and a plan to be active for the rest of their lives. More active people = more sales of physical activity related goods and services.
See this article for more information "Global Inactivity Levels Surge: Implications and Opportunities for the Sporting Goods Industry."
Pledge Your Commitment to Quality Physical Education
- Spread the word about the Importance of Physical Education and the Importance of Importance of Recess, Play, and Active Classrooms.
- Be ready to explain What Quality Physical Education Is and how it is different from Physical Activity.
- Educate people who do not know that Physical Education is a research-based academic subject with National Standards and Grade-Span Learning Indicators.
Contribute to the Coalition
Help become part of the solution by supporting and advocating for quality physical education. Below are example ways to help the profession.
- Advocacy: Allow in-store messaging at businesses (signage, customer receipts, electronic displays, etc).
- Advocacy: Create advocacy graphics and videos. Advocacy: Hire spokesperson for local presentations (ie. school board).
- Advocacy: Improve local and national media coverage.
- Advocacy: Improve representation of teachers in multimedia (TV, movies, music, etc).
- Advocacy: Support SHAPE America SPEAK Out Day.
- Supporting PE Programs: Provide teachers with free/discounted curriculum.
- Supporting PE Programs: Provide teachers with free/discounted equipment.
- Supporting PE Programs: Provide teachers with free/discounted professional development opportunities.