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In PE4Life’s Game Changer, you’ll learn about Phil Lawler’s mission to refocus physical education to a wellness-based model that encourages fitness for a lifetime. With this FREE eBook chapter, “Fit Kids Perform Better Academically,” you will learn the importance of physical education in the curriculum and how it can help your students perform better academically. If you enjoy the FREE e-book chapter, check out the rest of the book and learn how you can improve your students’ lives, both ...
As a whole, they represent Phil Lawler’s approach for actualizing his vision of transforming education through fitness-based PE and movement-based learning. “Obviously, we need to keep talking to PE teachers, but we aren’t going to change the PE culture through PE teachers. School board members, principals, and parents are going to need to be educated, and once they’re educated, they’ll demand fitness-based physical education for health, learning, and behavior reasons.
Allison Cameron is a teacher at City Park Collegiate High School, a Canadian alternative high school for kids of last resort in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. During a typical day, the first thing Cameron’s students do is 20 minutes of cardio exercise with heart rate monitors on. Since Cameron began her “exercise for learning” program, her students are focusing better and working harder, and they are less defiant.
His next target was much bigger: Dr. Kenneth Cooper, the world-renowned “Father of Aerobics” and head of the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas, Texas. After a couple calls to the Cooper Aerobics Center, Lawler was able to talk to Todd Whitthorne, a close colleague of Cooper’s (and today the president and CEO of Cooper Concepts, a subsidiary under the Cooper umbrella). As Lawler’s relationship with Cooper grew stronger, Lawler thought he’d take the next bold step and ask Cooper to speak at his...
For Lawler, a veteran physical education teacher and coach, the day had started like most days. It was “Mile Run Day” in the Madison PE department. A few weeks before this particular day’s mile run, Lawler had picked up a newfangled device called a heart rate monitor.
