Designate a bulletin board for Physical Education. Change the bulletin boards based on monthly/quarter theme.	Incorporate recognition for student's healthy lifestyle choices and fitness goals.	Integrate Interdisciplinary lessons (PE Central has a number of lessons for cross curriculum instruction.)	Communication with Parents and Students.	Incorporate a Quality Physical Education Program.
•Benefits of exercise •Bones of the Week •An unhealthy body can be a scary thing- promote safety and healthy lifestyles •12 ways to fitness •National Physical Fitness Month •Spring into Fitness-pictures of students performing fitness tests, posting healthy fitness zones, 101 ways to improve fitness •Photos of students being active outside of school •Jump Rope for Heart, Hoops for Heart pictures and goals.	•Fit Kid Award. A certificate made for students who participate in activities outside school, which promote fitness and active recreation. •Operation Healthy (name of school). Each student is given paper sneakers, which they turn in after completing 20 minutes of exercise or physical activity. The sneakers are strung together and displayed on a bulletin board. •Recognize fitness test results with promotional certificates, patches and T-shirts. The Fitnessgram and Presidential Fitness programs have incentive packets for schools. •Fitness Fanatics –refer to communication column	•Have students use the internet by participating in; -PE Central Challenge challenge@pecentral.org -Design student games www.verbnow.com -Walk Across America www.logit@pecentral.org •Create lesson to incorporate fitness terms or concepts; word search and crossword puzzles. •Introduce students to the Ancient Olympics and conclude with a classroom Olympics. •Chart and graph fitness results to motivate improvement in personal scores. •Assign IT projects to include fitness and sports. •Create collages with fitness or healthy lifestyle.	•Homework such as Fitness Fanatics- Send a calendar home each month with suggested after school physical activities. If students completes 3 activities per week, the parents signs the calendar and returns for classroom recognition. •Classroom newsletter-add a column designated to inform and educate about fitness, nutrition and healthy lifestyles. •Design a classroom website to include a page on physical education. List rational and benefits of exercise, Question of the Month, Post Fit Kid Awards and Fitness Fanatics, display photos of students participating in activities. •Mail Positive postcards to parents sharing success in class, classroom news or up coming challenges.	•Provide 200 minutes of quality physical education every 10 school days. •Use all resources to design a quality program; internet, specialists, conferences, pre packaged curriculum and heart. •Collaborate with grade level teachers to design lessons which meet the content standards. •Create an emotional and physically safe environment for learning. •Post a calendar of the units and fitness goals for the year.

Create a healthy school climate.

Support your faculty and students.

•Purchase library books to include famous athletes, sports, nutrition and healthy lifestyles. •Create a walking club in the morning before school. •Schedule school wide assemblies to promote fitness, physical activity and healthy lifestyles. -Jazzercise for student participation -Dance Troops for demonstration and student participation -Creative Athletics for demonstration and student participation -Professional/Olympic Athletes as motivational speaker •Promote school fund raiser involving fitness. -Jump Rope for Heart -Hoops for Heart -Walk-a-Thon •Morning Assembly- All students, staff and Principal meet in a common area before school to make daily announcements, pledge the flag, sing the school song and go through a series of stretches to ready the mind and body for learning. •Create a school website and newspaper to include all aspects of the school including physical education. •Establish safe and responsible recess/playground rules, lunchtime Intramurals program and after school Sports program.

•Administrators show support by; •P.E.4 Life Community Action Kit provides physical education advocates with all the necessary tools to effect change within their community. •SPEAK Sport and Physical Education Advocacy Kit is a kit produced by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. It contains a variety of information for effective promotion, which includes background information, promotional ideas, and resources. •HEAK Health Education Advocacy Kit contains materials and resources to promote heath education, which is produced by the Association for the Advancement of Health Education. •Grade level content standards, state and national guidelines, curriculum to support quality physical education. •Provide training for teachers to implement curriculum including Fitnessgram testing instruction. Utilize local workshops and state conferences. •Purchase basic equipment to implement a program. Seek donations from local, state and federal grants and school’s parent organization. •Incorporate activities to promote fitness awareness for faculty and staff.