Epic Times

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Epic Times

• The Teachers Guide to
• Historic Opportunities
• for
• Physical Education in
• Californias Public Schools

Created for 2007 State CAHPERD Conference
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This Presentation . . . . . .

• This presentation was prepared to provide
  physical education teachers with accurate, up to
  date information on the new opportunities now
  available for physical education.
• This presentation, specifically designed for
  teachers is part of a series of presentations
  that has been prepared to inform all participants
  in our educational communities so that they can
  make informed decisions about funding, policy
  development, and implementing standards-based
  instruction.

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These Are Epic Times for Physical Education in
California

• The adoption of the Physical Education Model
  Content Standards for California Public Schools
  by the State Board of Education in January 2005
  has elevated physical education to a new status
  in our educational system. It is imperative that
  we maximize this opportunity to move toward a new
  vision.

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New Tools Grow New Leaders

• When people understand where we are going - -
  they can help us get there!
• The standards provide school leaders, parents,
  and others with an opportunity to REALLY
  understand what physical education is about, and
  make good decisions about how they support it.

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New Tools Grow New Leaders

• The standards allow school leaders to develop an
  environment of expectation for physical education
  instruction.
• Standards provide for focused, careful planning
  for the use of resources (time, facilities,
  equipment, etc.)

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The Standards . . .

• Communicate what each student should know and be
  able to do. As a result. . .
• We have greater accountability and visibility for
  our work.
• We have new systems and practices to implement
• The outcomes of our work will be more visible
  than ever!

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Physical Education Framework

• A committee of teachers and administrators is
  currently in the process of writing a new
  physical education framework that is based on the
  content standards. The first draft will be
  available for review later this year.
• Because we have only had a framework (and not
  standards) in the past it is important to take a
  closer look at the relationship between the
  standards and frameworks.

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Physical Education Framework

• The Content Standards communicate what students
  should know and be able to do at each grade level
  in physical education. The standards are not a
  list of things to teach, but rather, a list of
  things that each student is expected to learn.
• The Framework communicates the how to implement
  the standards and provides a guide for developing
  high quality physical education instructional
  programs.

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Physical Education Framework

• When the first draft of the framework becomes
  available later this year, there will be a period
  of time when professionals and the public can
  provide feedback to the process. It will be
  important that each physical educator gets
  involved in this process.
• Put this on your TO DO list now!

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New Expectations for Physical Education

• The shift from traditional practice to
  standards-based practice . . . . . . . .
• Changes the way WE think about our work - student
  learning must be our foundation
• Demands that WE provide professional support for
  a cultural change around our work its not
  business as usual!

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New Expectations for Physical Education

• All of US working together are stronger than some
  of us working alone or in opposition.
• We have been asking school administrators to
  support the challenge before us with the
  suggestion that its time to begin anew and that
  means throwing out the bath water, the baby, and
  the bubbles!

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Lets Get Started !

• It seems we always need the MMs to get new
  efforts underway. . . . . .
• Motivation
• Money
• Looks Like WE now have those things . . . . . .

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The Money To Get Us Started

• There are two new funding sources in the
  2006-07 California Budget related to Physical
  Education.

The Physical Education Teacher Incentive Grant
Program
Art, Music, and Physical Education Block Grant
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Physical Education Teacher Incentive Grant Program

• 40 million which is designated for the hiring of
  additional physical education teachers.
  Approximately 1,100 teachers will be hired with
  these funds.
• These are on-going funds they will be
• in the state budget on an on-going basis
• and are a top priority of the Governor.

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Physical Education Teacher Incentive Grant Program

• This is a grant program that will provide
• 35,000 to each school that is awarded a
• grant.
• Districts will apply for these grants on
• behalf of their schools, and an application
• will be required. It is estimated that the
  application will become available in late
• March 2007.

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Physical Education Teacher Incentive Grant Program

• Teachers who are hired with these funds must hold
  physical education single subject teaching
  credentials and will provide physical education
  instruction for students in any of grades K-8.

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Physical Education Teacher Incentive Grant Program

• If more than 1,100 applications are submitted,
  then schools will be selected to receive the
  funds via a random selection process.
• The random selection process will include three
  variables
• Type of school (Elementary, middle, etc.)
• Size of school (based on school enrollment)
• Geographic location of the school

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Physical Education Teacher Incentive Grant Program

• One physical education teacher can provide all of
  the required (200 every 10 school days) physical
  education instructional minutes for 15 classes of
  elementary students.

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Physical Education Teacher Incentive Grant Program

• The Physical Education Teacher
• Incentive Grant Program
• 40 Million
• Physical Education Teachers
• Grades K-8

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Arts, Music, Physical Education Block Grant
500 Million Dollars Physical Education AND Visua
l and Performing Arts Instructional Programs
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Arts, Music, Physical Education Block Grant

• This funding will be released to school districts
  in April 2007. It is designated for distribution
  to districts one time only.
• The total amount of funding for all California
  schools is 500 Million Dollars.

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Arts, Music, Physical Education Block Grant

• School districts must expend a minimum of
  2,500.00 per school site. They may purchase
  district wide programs with these funds and share
  those with the schools, thus fulfilling their
  requirements.
• There is no deadline by which these funds must be
  spent however, state funds are typically
  available for three years.

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Arts, Music, Physical Education Block Grant

• The funds may be spent on the following for both
  instructional areas
• Professional development
• Equipment and Supplies

Physical Education AND Visual and Performing
Arts Instructional Programs
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Arts, Music, Physical Education Block Grant

• Professional Development is
• Long term sequential programs
• Not one day events
• Embedded in the daily work of teachers
• The most effective way to impact student learning

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Arts, Music, Physical Education Block Grant

• Equipment and Supplies
• Student to equipment ratio is no more than 21
  for best results.
• Think investment most physical education
  equipment has a short life span.
• Must be portable to be considered equipment and
  supplies.

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Arts, Music, Physical Education Block Grant

• Common misunderstanding of the allowed
  expenditures include
• Facilities or facilities upgrades
• Non instructional programs (after school, etc)
• Hiring staff
• Permanent equipment (storage sheds, etc.)
• These are NOT allowed expenditures!
• Even if they are for physical education and arts

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Additional New Funding Every Physical Educator
Should Know About

• Art and Music Block Grant
• 105 million in on-going funds (the district
  will receive this money each year)
• For equipment, supplies, hiring staff and
  professional development. This money has already
  been sent out to districts.

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Additional New Funding Every Physical Educator
Should Know About

• Discretionary Block Grant
• Over 500 million
• Schools districts may use these funds as they
  choose. Physical education projects could be
  included if the local decision considered and
  accepted that.

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Five Easy Steps for You to MAZIMIZE These
Opportunities

• Make sure youre clear on the opportunities and
  resources www.cahperd.org or www.cde.gov
• Create a collaborative environment and join
  forces your on site colleagues (visual and
  performing arts and physical education), district
  and regional professionals.

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MAXIMIZE These Opportunities

• Build a plan
• Write a clear plan that articulates your specific
  professional needs and vision.
• Share the plan
• Schedule times and dates to present your needs
  and vision to site teachers, administrator,
  district office, school board, and parents.
• Aggressively initiate the plan. Just do it!

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Essentials for a 5 year Plan

• Develop your Plan around this Common Goal From
  current practice to standards-based instruction
  in each class within five years.
• Clearly outline each of these for each activity
  on the plan.
• What?
• When?
• Where?
• How and how funded?

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Essentials for a 5 year Plan

• Accurately assess your needs to guarantee arrival
  at your destination.
• Allow the full five years, you will need it!
• Remember equipment and supplies do not last
  long, a well trained teacher is the most
  effective way to address the learning of students.

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NOW What Do I Do?

• Take the 24 hour challenge to Action
• Begin today by making a plan.
• Schedule meetings with like-minded colleagues.
• Develop an Internal strategic plan.and identify
  the strategic players.
• (colleagues, administrators, district
  office, school board, and parents)

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NOW What Do I Do?

• Spread the word, inform your colleagues district
  wide.Whether they buy into it or not!
• Accurate information is critical and full of
  beneficial potential.
• Strategies to work with colleagues in the arts
  will be far more effective if all the physical
  educators are on board.

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NOW What Do I Do?

• Align your needs and vision to provide the
  opportunity to implement standards-based physical
  education instruction in your school.
• Implement the 5 Strategic Steps.

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Over Coming the Ya ButsQuiz/Review Time!

• Do I have a say so in the spending of these
  monies?
• Most definitely, but it is up to you. We have
  this incredible window of opportunity, thats
  just waiting for you to take full advantage of.
• What if my site administrator suggests painting a
  new school spirit logo on the gym walls?
• It is stated clearly in the language of the
  one-time funds 1) professional development 2)
  equipment 3) supplies equipment and supplies
  must be portable and not attached

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Over Coming the Ya ButsQuiz/Review Time!

• The district office is calling for the purchasing
  of new uniforms for all the high school athletic
  teams?
• The funds are for physical education
  instructional programs, not extra curricular
  activities.
• The district wants to buy new curricula for the
  elementary schools?
• We have standards to guide those decisions.
  Careful consideration of what is
  standards-based is important. Keep the focus
  as a K-12 perspective on all levels guided by
  physical education professionals.

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Over Coming the Ya ButsQuiz/Review Time!

• What are choices if the district is proposing
  spending 80 of these funds on Music?
• Aggressively initiate the plan to make your needs
  heard. Your engagement in the process can/might
  help prevent this from happening.
• Should fitness assessment be paid for with these
  one funds?
• State funds already exist for FITNESSGRAM
  supplies and training.

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Over Coming the Ya ButsQuiz/Review Time!

• Can we train our coaches and athletic trainers
  with these monies?
• Professional development is for credentialed
  physical educators to learn and implement
  standards based instruction.
• State funds already exist for Fitnessgram
  supplies and training.
• How soon do these funds need to be spent? In
  other words is it Use it or Lose itsituation?
• There is no timeline for the expenditure of the
  one time funds, though timing is critical. You
  need to be involved in this process from the
  start.

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Over Coming the Ya ButsQuiz/Review Time!

Can these funds be used to pay for our Standards
professional development ? YES, a its a great
opportunity to get the standards professional
development series started.
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New Vision for Physical Education

• The funding will assist us in creating a new
  culture for physical education in each of our
  schools if you invest the funds wisely.
• Changes the way we talk to each other
• This can raise our professional stature to a new
  and appropriate level in our educational domains.
• Common United Vision
• This puts us all on the same page heading in a
  new and more meaningful direction.
• Nurturing at every level of experience
• Whether you are a rookie or a veteran, support is
  there for you.
• We can now put our dreams into reality.

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New Vision for Physical Education

• Challenging our assumptions and understandings
• We can now put our dreams into reality
• Its not about me the teacher, its about the
  children weve been given charge of, and their
  educational opportunities.
• It will require your engagement and some time
  the outcome is well worth it.
• WE have the opportunity before us to make great
  advances in our daily impact on our students.

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Never Before!

• These unique opportunities provide us with the
  resources we have long needed, now its time to
  get started with planning, reaching for and
  developing the vision.
• It is a time for LEADERSHIP for all of us, we
  cant let someone else take care of our need to
  get started.

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Youre Not Alone!

• Know that this process is going state wideevery
  school, every city and every teacher!
• Know that you have support out there!
• Know that you can only stand to gain from this
  process..its all good!

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Get Started Today !

• Know that a journey of 1,000 miles begins with
  one simple step that can start with you! Lets
  go!
• These are epic times for physical education - -
  Are you ready to take advantage of them?