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SDCOE Health & Physical Education

ADVISORY MEETING

“TO INFINITY AND BEYOND”

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FALL 2023

https://bit.ly/3FvKTsx

Paige Metz

San Diego County Office of Education

October 11, 2023

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Reminder: The Focus of Physical Education Should Be

PHYSICAL LITERACY

Physical Literacy is:

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The motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities for life.

  • by Margaret Whitehead

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Health Education = Health Literacy

Primary goal of Health Education is HEALTH LITERACY for all students. Health literate students can understand basic health information, directions, and services needed to make informed personal health decisions which may also contribute to healthier communities.

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  • Critical thinkers and problem solvers when confronting health issues.
  • Have competence and skills to use basic health info and services in health-enhancing ways.
  • Effective communicators who organize and convey beliefs, ideas, and info about health issues, translating their knowledge to applied practices
  • Responsible and productive citizens who help ensure that their community is kept healthy, safe, and secure.

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Welcome Space Rangers!

Find someone in the room that you don’t know. Share your:

    • Name
    • District/School
    • Grade Span You Serve
    • What is your “Mantra” for today’s meeting?

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SPACE RANGER SUPPLIES

Space Ranger Glasses to help guide our vision

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Cosmic Stress Balls to help us work through things that might be uncomfortable

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Galaxy Slime…because this work is MESSY!

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Rocket Flashlights to illuminate our action items

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By The End of Our Time Together

You Will Defeat Zurg and…

  • Become informed re: National, State & Local Updates

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  • Identify actions that work towards the SDCOE North Star

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  • Review new and draft resources

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  • Identify your own North Star

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  • Use Leadership Voice to inform our systems

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  • NEXT STEPS for you, your site or district!

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Input to SDCOE Programming for 2023-24

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We Need Your Insight and Vision!

Throughout Today:

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Use a future focused lens to provide input on SDCOE Health and Physical Education programming on posters re:

    • Professional Learning
    • Communication (Monthly Updates, Emails, Social Media, etc)
    • Networking/Informal Meetings (Hangouts, etc)
    • Advisory Meetings
    • Resources/Guiding Documents
    • Support to Teachers/Sites/Districts
    • Other Ideas/Areas of Need (Be Creative!)

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National Update

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National Health and Physical Education Update

  • REVISED Health & Physical Education Standards
    • Both sets of revised standards will be released at SHAPE America 2024 National Convention
    • Reminder: Not all CA Ed Code is addressed in National Standards

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  • SHAPE America has released LOTS of new resources! Curricula, research, activity calendars, assessment tools, journals, books and more!

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  • October is Health Literacy Month! YAY!

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California Update

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California Physical Education Standards & Framework Update POSTPONED

Meanwhile, we should:

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    • Continue to work towards Physical Education Content Standards

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    • Utilize viable information in Physical Education Framework

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    • Focus on developing students physical literacy

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    • Supplement outdated content

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  • Standards-Based Instruction - Universal Design for Learning (ULD)
  • Social Emotional Learning - Equitable Access
  • Culturally & Linguistically Relevant Teaching (CLRT)

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Physical Fitness Testing (PFT)

  • Concerns About FITNESSGRAM (state adopted PFT)
    • Not accessible by ALL students
      • Students with Disabilities
      • Students who are Non-Binary
    • Bullying and body shaming

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  • CDE Convened an EXPERT PANEL
    • Examine issues
    • Identify possibilities
    • Make recommendations to State Board

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Expert Panel Releases Recommendations re: Physical Fitness Testing to State Board

Recommendation 1: Seek legislative authority and funding to:

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  • Develop a new program of PFT assessments that are aligned with state law and content standards

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  • Disallow the use of PFT assessments for academic grades

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  • Allow parents to exempt students from PFT

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  • Provide funding to support PFT administration

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  • Evaluate PFT programming

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Expert Panel Releases Recommendations re: Physical Fitness Testing to State Board

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Recommendation 2: Develop an assessment program that is aligned with state content standards that includes:

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  • Developing a valid, reliable and fair physical performance test

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  • Test administration by trained educators in a safe and supporting environment

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  • Measures improvement over time and excludes body composition

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  • Provides students with reports that are meaningful and actionable

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  • Provides date to schools/districts to inform student health and wellness policies

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  • Provides electronic data to parents/guardians

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  • Study on new physical performance tests to assess validity, reliability and fairness

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PFT This Year

  • ALL 5th, 7th and 9th Graders Should Be Tested In:
    • Aerobic Capacity (Limited to Mile, PACER or Walk Test)
    • Abdominal Strength & Endurance (Curl-Up)
    • Upper Body Strength & Endurance (Push-Up, Modified Pull-up, Flexed-Arm Hang)
    • Trunk Extensor Strength & Flexibility (Trunk Lift)
    • Flexibility (Shoulder Stretch or Sit-n-Reach)

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  • DO NOT Collect Body Composition Data (gender, height, weight, bday, BMI)

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  • Testing Window: February 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

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  • LEAs Establish Process to Ensure Student Privacy

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PFT This Year (cont’d)

  • Students with Disabilities Should Complete As Much PFT as Their Condition Allows

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  • LEAs May Want to Consider
    • NOT using Healthy Fitness Zones with students
      • Focus on students doing their “best” instead of meeting a minimum score
    • Implementing practices/training to keep scores private and discourage bullying/body shaming
    • Direct communication of PFT changes/expectations to physical education teachers and others who administer PFT
    • Updating score reporting docs/systems to reflect changes to PFT

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What You Need to Know and Do re: PFT

Programming re: PFT Should:

  • Start PFT programming right now, for ALL students
  • Be based on grade level standards, not individual test scores
  • Tracking fitness - Developing fitness plans
  • Setting personal goals - Working towards personal goals
  • Give students options to personalize their learning

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Resources:

  • CDE PFT Webpage: Resources, templates and more!
  • CDE PFT FAQs: Answers to frequent questions
  • PFT Reference Guide: “How To” administer tests

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PFT Reporting for 2023-24

  • Individual student data will NOT be reported to CDE

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  • Districts may collect PFT data at local level
    • No body composition
    • No use of Healthy Fitness Zones

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  • Every school will report PARTICIPATION DATA on SARC
    • Percentage of each grade level that completed each PFT component
      • 98% of 5th graders participated in PFT Aerobic Capacity
      • 100% of 5th graders participated in PFT Flexibility
      • 92% of 5th graders participated in PFT Upper Body Strength & Endurance
      • 92% of 5th graders participated in PFT Trunk Extensor Strength & Flexibility
      • 98% of 5th graders participated in PFT Abdominal Strength & Endurance

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PFT Impact on Student Scheduling

  • Physical education is a required course of study in grades 1-12 (Ed Code 51220(d))

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  • Because Healthy Fitness Zones will not be calculated, the 2-Year Exemption is not available (Ed Code Section 51421[b][1])

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  • LEAs may allow students to request a Permanent Exemption
    • 16 years of age or older and has been enrolled in grade 10 for one academic year or longer (Ed Code Section 51421[c][1])

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  • Bottom Line: Ed Code requires ALL current 9th grade students to enroll in physical education in 2024-25 for their 10th grade year
    • Included in Physical Education Federal Program Monitoring (FPM) by CDE

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Heat Advisory from CDE/CDPH:

CDPH Guidance for Sports and School Activities During Extreme Heat describes:

  • Heat Risk Level
  • Proactive Steps
  • Symptoms of Heat Illness
  • Treatment of Heat Illness
  • How To Use Heat Risk Forecast
  • Other Resources

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San Diego County Update

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2023-24 SDCOE Health & Physical Education Leadership Cadre Roster

Laura Brodfuehrer (San Diego Unified SD)

Shannon Moreno (Grossmont Union High SD)

Kasey de la Cruz (Grossmont Union High SD)

Robbie DePerro (San Diego Unified SD)

Dennis Gildehaus (San Diego Unified SD)

Leo Hsu (Sweetwater Union High SD)

Bailee Holt-Sandsmark (San Dieguito Union High SD)

Austin Olson (San Dieguito Union High SD)

Trent Suzuki (Escondido Union Elementary SD)

Tracy Yates (Health Specialist)

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SDCOE Health & Physical Education Leadership Cadre

Has Been Trained to Provide:

  • Professional Learning
  • Instructional Coaching
  • Technical Assistance

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Is Currently Developing:

  • Guiding Documents/Resources
  • Networking Events

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San Diego CAHPERD Update

New San Diego CAHPERD Leadership:

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  • Terri Clark, Patrick Henry High School (San Diego Unified SD)

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  • Austin Olson, Pacific Trails Middle School (San Dieguito Union High SD)

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Professional Learning Opportunities

SDCOE

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CAHPERD

  • State Conference February 1-3 in Garden Grove, CA

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SHAPE America

  • National Convention March 12-16 in Cleveland, OH

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Values Inventory

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What Values Guide Us & Our Work?

Values: a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life.

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Select 10 values from the list (or add to the list) that guide your life and work

  • What if you had to narrow down to 5? 3?

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Introduce yourself to a new friend. Discuss what you selected and why! How do systems help or hinder? How do we bring them with us anyway?

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How Do Your Values Show Up In Your Work Supporting Health & Physical Education?

Reflect on the work you do related to health and physical education.

  • How do your values show up?
  • What more could you do?

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Discuss with a partner!

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San Diego County

Office of Education

NORTH STAR

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What Does This Mean for Health & Physical Education in San Diego County?

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BELONGINGNESS

CURB-CUT CULTURE

Read: A Pedagogy of Belonging by Mitchell Beck and James Malley

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Reflect: What resonates with you? What did you learn? How might it impact your work? How should it impact programming?

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Discuss with a partner or small group

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Share: Create a visual (poster, slide, etc)

Read: The Curb-Cut Effect by Angela Glover Blackwell

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Reflect:What resonates with you? What did you learn? How might it impact your work? How should it impact programming?

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Discuss with a partner or small group

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Share: Create a visual (poster, slide, etc)

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Resource Review

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Health Education Implementation Checklist/Planning Tool

  1. Open the NEW Health Education Implementation Checklist/Planning Tool

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  • Identify:
    • What stands out?
    • How might this be used?
    • For what benefit?
    • Who needs to see this?

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  • Share your thoughts with a partner

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We Need Your Feedback!

Leaders from throughout CA have come together to develop a resource to clarify CA Ed Code re: physical education

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Take 10-15 minutes to review the hard copy DRAFT for:

  • Topics: Are the right topics included? What is missing?
  • Clarity: Is it clear? Does it make sense?
  • Title: What should it be called?
  • Feedback to Authors: What do they need to know for this to be a viable resource?

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Share with a friend.

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Record input on hard copies. Return hard copies to Paige.

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What Is The

NORTH STAR

For Your Work?

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How Do You Want to Show Up For Your Students?

Take out your Values Inventory. This time…identify the values you want to use to drive the work you do with students related to health and physical education

  • Identify your top 10
  • What if you had to narrow it down to 5? 3?

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What needs to take place to make those values a reality?

  • Identify 2-3 actions for each value. Write them down.

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Share them with a partner. What do you have in common? What ideas might you borrow? How will you hold yourself accountable?

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What and How Do You Want Students to Learn?

What do you want students to KNOW and BE ABLE TO DO as a result of health and physical education programming? Be:

  • Specific
  • Grade-level appropriate (standards-based)
  • Considerate ot student voice/interests/needs

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What needs to take place to make this learning a reality?

  • Identify 2-3 actions for each value. Write them down.

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Share them with a partner. What do you have in common? What ideas might you borrow? How will you hold yourself accountable?

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Triangulating Your North Star!

A NORTH STAR is an unwavering definition of purpose

  1. Reflect on the values and intended learning you just identified

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  • How might they come together to define your “North Star?”

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  • Write down your “North Star”
  • Be intentional
  • Be concise (1-2 sentences)
  • Be forward thinking
  • Be bold

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Make Your NORTH STAR Your Students’ Reality!

What needs to happen to bring your NORTH STAR to life?

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  • How will your “North Star” define the future of health and physical education for your students?
    • Decision making? Guiding documents? Mindsets? Practices?

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  • What do you need to do to reach your North Star?
    • What do you need to learn?
    • What needs to change? Actions to start? Things to abandon?

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  • How will you know if you have reached it?
    • How will you track progress?

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  • Who do you need to bring on board?

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Health & Physical Education Leadership

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Find Your Leadership Voice!

Open and review the Elements of Leadership Voice

  • Engage the Heart
  • Moral Purpose
  • Clarity
  • Precision
  • Urgency
  • Action

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Take a minute to reflect.

  • Which of these do you naturally do?
  • Which will require focus and intentionality?

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How Can Our Leadership Voice Influence Systems?

WHO and HOW to Influence SD County Systems

  • Identify Leaders or Groups in Your System
  • Identify Actions to Influence
  • Resources

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WHAT Will Your Work Look Like?

  • SDCOE Leadership Work Plan

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What Does This Mean for You �and Your Solar System?

  • Take 2-3 minutes to write down a few ”gems” you picked up today that you would like to use/address in your work

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  • In groups of 3 take turns presenting and discussing your plans
    • As you hear good ideas, feel free to add them to your “to do” list as well

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  • Be prepared to share out your best thinking with the group

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  • Complete the 72 hour challenge!

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THANK YOU!

Please contact me if there is anything I can do to support you, your site or your district!

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Paige Metz

pmetz@sdcoe.net

(858) 295-8868