9-hole Scramble: 4-person teams. Register as a team or individually.

If you would like to have a great time playing golf with other colleagues and professionals in the field of physical education, health,  recreation and/or dance from the state of Georgia; check out the information below (read on):

Pre-Register   Hotel     What's Happening    Exhibitors   President's Message

October 30-November 2, 2010, SUNDAY-TUESDAY
Hilton Savannah DeSoto, 15 East Liberty Street, Savannah, GA 31401 

Please join The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity and your colleagues in the field for our new webinar
series "Keeping Kids Moving: How Equitable Transportation Policy Can
Reverse Childhood Obesity."  

      Congress has begun the process of reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and your input in critical. Click here to see the S. 3683. Please let your legislators know how important it is to include both physical education and health education in the new ESEA. Click here to show your support.

The 4th Annual Southern Obesity Summit takes place in Atlanta, Georgia from September 12-14.  This innovative conference will focus on childhood and adult obesity prevention in the southern United States, the most obese region in the nation.  Teams from 16 southern states, comprising more than 300 participants will convene to promote cross-sector collaboration and partnerships to prevent obesity, share successful policy and community-based intervention strategies, and connect with peer practitioners and leaders to promote, coordinate, and sustain innovative obesity prevention activities. 

For more information and to register for the Summit, please visit www.southernobesitysummit.org (http://www.southernobesitysummit.org/).  

Stephanye Peek's notes:  The 55th AAHPERD Leadership Development Conference was held on June 16-19, 2010 at Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C. Our GAHPERD representatives that were honored to attend the conference were David Worrall, President-Elect; Gina Zuganelis, Vice President-Health and Advocacy; Jacque Harbison, Executive Director and Stephanye Peek, President.

 Click here to see the what's happening!

As physical education and health professionals, it is important that we take a hard look at the candidates that were elected in the Georgia Primaries;  to see if and how they support our profession.

Gina Zuganelis, one of our GAHPERD Advocacy Coordinators, has contacted the primary winners to ask them how they support  physical education and health in Georgia. We will post any responses they send her as soon as we receive them. To see these responses and link to the candidates web pages read on:

The event took place on July 17 & 18 and was sponsored by Albany State University HPER and GAHPERD. The session leaders included ASU faculty and master teachers from Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell and Cobb counties. The workshop included programs such as standards-based instruction in health & physical education, the implications of PECAT/HECAT and Fitnessgram in Physical Education, training information in strength & conditioning and current health related topics, fitness oriented rhythms and games, re-certification/certification in CPR/AED and much more! The workshop was organized by our own Southwest District Rep, LaTonya Conner.

Check out the Power Point Presentation highlighting segments from the event!

    I hope you are staying cool in this hot summertime in Georgia and have been able to participate in some of your favorite activities and events this summer - like biking, running, swimming, camping, skiing, hiking, and more! But now it's time to get ready for our Fall Convention in Savannah, so mark your calendar for Oct. 31 - Nov. 2 and get ready for our theme of "Fitness is IN, 2010.  Get fit.  Stay fit.  Fit for Life!"  

Click here to register online

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2010 GAHPERD CONVENTION PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
October 30-November 2, 2010,  SUNDAY-TUESDAY
Hilton Savannah DeSoto, 15 East Liberty Street, Savannah, GA 31401 

The 2010 Robert W. Moore Summer Teachers' Institute for Health & Physical Education Institute took place on June 8 through the 10.  Click "Read More" below to download some of the information from our presenters.

The 2010 Shape of the Nation Report:Status of Physical Education in the USA provides a current picture of physical education (PE) in the American education system. Incremental improvements have been made in the last few years in the number of states that now require PE (17% increase) and student assessment in PE (26% increase). However, the Report shows that more states now allow waivers and exemptions from PE classes (77% increase) and no progress has been made in providing daily physical education in all grades K-12.

Stephanye Peek and David Worrall, our GAHPERD President and President Elect, were in attendance at the 2010 Clarkdale Reunion Games.