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Physical Education & Fitness Testing Requirements
SCUSD supports the alignment of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and instructional resources to the state-adopted model content standards. We Believe physical education is just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. Also, the importance of every student achieving grade-level and course-level standards in preparation for the next level is emphasized.
Alliance for Healthier Generation
Healthy Schools Program
Schools are powerful places to shape the health, education and well-being of our children. That is why the Alliance’s Healthy Schools Program supports more than 13,000 schools across the U.S. in their efforts to create environments where physical activity and healthy eating are accessible and encouraged.
The Alliance provides expert advice and resources for school professionals, teachers and students in addition to information specifically for parents. Parents serve as key role models in the home and they can also help ensure that health is a priority at their child’s school.
California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
Your Profession is what YOU make it!
The California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD), founded in 1930, is a non-profit, voluntary membership corporation formed exclusively to promote the organizing and progress of school, community and statewide programs of health, physical education, recreation and dance which will embody such opportunities and which will insure the inclusion of such programs within the most appropriate philosophical and social context of life in California.
CAHPERD Mission Statement
The mission of the California Association for Health, Physical
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State Education Codes for PE
Elementary Mandated Minutes
200 minutes every 10 school days
Ed Code 51210 states: “g) Physical education, with emphasis upon the physical activities for the pupils that may be conducive to health and vigor of body and mind, for a total period of time of not less than 200 minutes each 10 schooldays, exclusive of recesses and the lunch period.