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North Carolina School System Receives Funding for Physical Education Programs
The Carol M. White Physical Education Program has awarded $1.4 million to the Rowan-Salisbury School System in North Carolina, the Salisbury Post reports. The school system will use the grant to support three projects under the school system’s iPHONE (Increasing Physical Health Opportunities by Nutrition and Exercise) model. One project is SNAP (the Student Nutrition and Activity Program) Shot, which will implement research-based programs aimed at decreasing body mass index through increased physical activity and teaching students about nutrition and weight management. The hope is that the kindergarten through fifth grade participants will have a positive physical education (P.E.) experience. Specifically, the system will use the funding to train teachers how to integrate “health and nutritional concepts into math and science classroom activities,” as well as to purchase P.E. technology, such as pedometers and heart rate monitors. A second project, Student Fitness Centers, will use the funding to establish state-of-the-art fitness centers at the system’s middle and high schools and help secondary schools transform their P.E. curriculum from a competitive sport-based model to one that focuses on wellness. Finally, the funding will support a data collection project that includes the purchase of the “Virtual Physical Education Administrator,” which will track and monitor students’ progress toward P.E. goals over their 13 years of school. P.E. staff will be able to track “progress toward state standards; develop and share lesson plans; […] create and share grading rubrics, curriculum maps and end-of-course exams; [and] generate student progress reports” (Salisbury Post, 10/28/09).