NDSHAPE Fall State Conference
Shaping Your Heart, Mind, and Soul
August 1-2, 2017
Carl Ben Eielson Middle School
We have a great conference planned for you to get fired up for the new school year! We are again partnering with the Fargo Public Schools to bring you two days of great sessions, along with an opportunity for graduate credit.
Registration available after presenter bios below.
Conference Hotel Information:
Country Inn and Suites
3316 13th Ave S
Fargo, ND
701-234-0565
Rooms are $91/night for two queens
Keynote Presenters
Artie Kamiya
Artie Kamiya is a man who wears many hats. He is a long-time author, editor, publisher, and presenter. For example, his first book was published in 1985 (Elementary Teachers Handbook of Indoor & Outdoor Games) and has been used by over 100,000 teachers across the United States. He is the editor of The Great Activities Newspaper for K-8 Physical Education now in it’s 36th year. His publishing company has helped many of today’s grassroots PE teachers see their dreams come true in print. And as a presenter, he has conducted over 400 workshops in 45 different states. Artie currently serves on the Board of Directors of SHAPE America and is the founder of the National Physical Education & School Sport Institute based in Asheville, North Carolina.
Sessions:
“Tick-Tock I’m a Catching Clock” and Other Catchy Skill Cues
Please consider joining Artie for a skill-based session designed to assist you in creating “No Fault Zones” for your students, an assortment of instant activities, and examples of different instructional formats for teaching basic sport skills in non-traditional ways.
“Fitness & Fun for Everyone!”
Please consider joining Artie for an assortment of fun K-12 energizers, getting-to-know-you activities, non-traditional ways to introduce dance and fitness, and other “tricks-of-the trade.”
“The Mission Beyond Your Job Description”
Please join Artie as he brings a fun and uplifting message designed to provide laughter and inspiration centered on how the “little extras” can add to your enjoyment as a teacher. Have you ever seen a Duchenne smile? Know the difference between a hand and a clap? If not, please join us and see how to add a bit more “zip” to your teaching and leadership style.
Joe McCarthy
Joe is the 2012 MNSHAPE Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year and teaches at Meadowview Elementary School in Farmington, MN. His sessions will include:
Session Title: Academic Games in Physical Education
Learn from National speaker Joe McCarthy from Farmington MN on how simple it is to add spelling and math activities into your Physical Education curriculum. You will leave with ideas that can be implemented into any program next week. Great advocacy tool!
Session Title: #Physed Favorites
Each activity in this collection focuses on one standard and one strand of outcomes, typically fitness knowledge with an emphasis on physical literacy. The activity plan has been simplified to keep instruction concise yet effective, planting seeds of awareness that will grow throughout the entire school year.
In this session, you will learn how to play my students favorite activities!
Session Title: LitPE:
Literacy Physical Education (LitPE) is a program designed to help a specific grade level that is behind, based on the statewide reading assessment to each grade level standards. Our data shows that students who are in our 12 week class will more than double their peers and up to five the national average on the winter assessment. Students come to the gym every day, fifteen minutes for 12 weeks. Every class embeds fluency, comprehension and spelling into movement activities. Students in this class learn how to combat “learned helplessness” by the end of the 12 weeks. Students will use whiteboards, markers and towels as their learning tools. Paper and pencil is another option for you to use. This program will cost the school less than $100.
Michelle Hillier: (Sponsored by SEEC)
Michelle Hillier is the co-visionary and Head of Groove EDGEucation. She has her B.Ed degree, and after spending years in the classroom, she is now passionately committed to getting dance and movement into ALL areas of education through the Groove EDGEucation programs and resources with her “partner in crime” Amy. Michelle also teaches in the B.Ed program at UOIT and the Dance AQ course through York, inspiring pre-service and current educators to make movement accessible for all students.
Session Title: Start grooving…you can’t get it wrong!
Groove EDGEucation’s Michelle Hillier will take us through her movement-based teaching approach that engages the BODY, BRAIN and BEING while learning. Students learn through equal engagement of the physical, cognitive, social and emotional self.
Fargo Public School Teachers: Please click here to register online.
West Fargo Public School Teachers: Please click here to register online.
Non-members of NDSHAPE: please JOIN now prior to registration.
Members of NDSHAPE: For online payment and registration click here. For paper registration download form 2017 NDSHAPE Fall Conference Registration
Attention Faculty: to register multiple students please use the following online form. You will be contacted with total cost and payment instructions.