New Jersey Council of Administrators of Health and Physical Education
MINUTES OF THE MEETING FROM October 16, 2008
Rutgers, Busch Campus
9:00am-12:00pm
The following members were present: Dan Brundage-Millburn, NJCAHPE Webmaster,Judy LoBianco-South Orange-Maplewood/NJCAHPE-Secretary, James McCall- NJ DOE, Linda Guerrini-Parsippany-Troy Hills, Jackie Malaska-NJAHPERD Executive Director, Elaine Sienkiewicz-Woodbridge, Pat Shea-Manalapan-Englishtown, John Kohutanycz-Sayreville, Greg Beyer-Monroe, Melanie Ogden-Old Bridge,John Fraraccio-West New York, J. Glenn Sliker-Hamilton Twp., Bruce Peragallo-Vice President,NJCAHPE, Vinnie Smith-Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jackie Kasguka-Jersey City,KiKi Enderle-Hopewell Valley, Malcolm Smith-Southern Regional, Ken Mason-Lawrence, Linda Ionta-Union, Joe Pisauro-Roselle, Mario Diez-Watchung Hills, Mary Jurlina-Howell, Delores Edwards-Newark, Andrea Jacobs-AHA, Cindy Stockdale-Passaic Cnty, Kathy Read-Human Kinetics .
The meeting was called to order at 9:30am. Bruce Peragallo, Vice President, NJCAHPE is filling in for Cathleen Filippello who could not be with us this morning. He introduced Todd Slawsky and Nora Gelperin from Answer. Nora introduced and explained their new online courses and passed out information about the same. “Professional Development in your Pajamas”. She proceeded with a powerpoint outlining what the online courses look like. Nora encouraged supervisors to send teachers to a computer lab in their own district on the day of an in-service to do the on-line workshop from an 8-3pm. She fielded questions from the group. He discussed the other traditional workshops and passed out the pamphlet. Todd invited the group to email him or Nora with any questions.
Participants introduced themselves, then Pat Shea discussed membership and the fee/forms. Form is online and copies are here at the meeting. Membership is $15.00. All forms are mailed to Pat Shea. We do not take school vouchers, but a check is acceptable. Password access to the website can be obtained by Dan Brundage.
Jackie Malaska-ED NJAHPERD mentioned membership applications:NJCAHPE members are offered 1/2price membership to NJAHPERD. Also, if you can get 5 of your teachers to join, you get your membership free of charge. Questions arose about the difficulty in sending teachers to the convention due to new state regulations on travel. Jackie explained that NJAHPERD will be applying for a waiver in that regard. If you want to know who in your district is a member, email Jackie Malaska at . She discussed the Hands on Health Conference, December 8, 2008. She discussed the 2009 Convention in Long Branch, NJ.104 sessions. February 22-24, 2008. February 22nd is a pre-convention set of workshosp: Project Adventure and a NASPE Pipeline Workshop: Instructional Practices K-12. This is our 90th Anniversary. Linda from Parsippany mentioned that Pam Fischer came to talk to her high school teachers about Driver Ed. Bill Margaretta also spoke in Parsippany about Alive at 25.
Andrea from AHA: New Jersey was chosen as the focus group state for testing thank you gifts. One hundred students in New Jersey chose gift on behalf of millions of children.
Vinnie Smith discussed school nursing workshops. Horizon is partnering with Kean University on an obesity workshop. Horizon does free workshops: email Vinnie Smith for more information: he has a health educators network. It’s a comprehensive listserv which is an email sent every day about relevant health issues in the news. Jim McCall is the new chair of NJ Action for Healthy Kids. Go on the national site for Action for Healthy Kids to become part of it.
Jim McCall-Liaison for NJ Dept. of Education. New Jersey is one of the strongest physical education states in the country. We have a CDC grant through NJ Dept. of Health and it will enable us to do great things and bring stakeholders together. New laws, commissioner regulations and mandates make life better, but more challenging for us in many ways. Travel restrictions are one challenge. There is a new gang prevention law that has been passed that requires gang prevention education at the elementary school. Two years ago, if you wear glasses, you are required to wear eye protection goggles during a list of 13 different sports. At the end of the law it states that organizations are not held accountable. Law has been sent to attorney general’s office who commented that students will indeed need to wear goggles. Who does this mandate on eye protection effect? NJ Field Hockey? NJSIAA? Information is forthcoming. There is also an organ donation bill. It requires an objective spelled out in our standards. Driver Education changes are coming via an initiative that brings agencies together to reduce the number of teen crashes. Traffic safety progress indicators will be added K-12. In addition, the code will change next year. The only person that will be permitted to teach driver education will be a certified health educator. A memo will go out after January.
Jim passed out the new professional development guidelines from the state department. The department is encouraging on-site professional development opportunities. Professional development provider numbers are now gone as well.
There are also New Physical Activity Guidelines put out by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services. Jim passed out copies. They are available at NASPE recommends 150 min/wk for elementary, 225 min a week for middle/high school. It’s different because they count the time it takes students to get dressed. K-12 should be the same number and this is a mixed message.
Jim thanked us for our efforts in completing the statewide survey. We are analyzing the data alongside NJAHPERD. a 1/3 of elementary schools use recess as part of their 150 minute requirement. There is also a committee looking into a mandated recess for elementary schools. Although we support that mandate, we want to make sure it doesn’t lead to other school districts using recess as part of their 150 minutes. There is also a move toward encouraging Option 2 in districts that would allow athletes to waive physical education. 18% of our NJ schools are using Option 2. The most alarming data that we received from the survey was the lack of skill assessment and a focus on team sports.
The NJCCCS 2009 Revision: Original standards 1996: 6 standards, 3 grade level clusters. In 2004, we went from 99 progress indicators to 550 progress indicators. In the next revision, we are cutting back. There will still be 6 standards and topical strands. There will probably be between 400-420 progress indicators. Jim passed around a hard copy. There will be an interactive, user-friendly website to sort, search and use the standards to suit your needs. If we are in the middle of a curriculum revision, we should proceed, since the state may drag their feet on approving the revision process.
He showed an example of what the website would look like and fielded comments and questions. There is classroom applications strand that suggest activities per strand. The perspective of the standards revision is “21st century skills”. The website format will go up next month. Anyone can go on the website to look at the standards and even provide feedback through a form/checklist to leave comments.He can send the powerpoint to anyone who would like it: email him at . He will also be sending us survey information to supervisors. He went through some tables regarding the survey. There are no requirements for space per pupil except in fire code.
Kathy Read, Human Kinetics-Illinois has flown into be with us today to discuss Fitnessgram. Norms referenced testing compares students to each other. Criterion referenced testing allows students to achieve individualized healthy fitness zones. She showed us the reports associated with Fitnessgram and the similarities to the President’s Challenge. Fitnessgram is a health-related fitness test. There are no skill related performance tests associated with Fitnessgram. She provided us with information about Fitnessgram. Non face to face training opportunities on the websites. Important information on how to administer the test protocols. Free on-line course based on the manual. Register with Human Kinetics site. Credit hours available.
There are three versions of the software.
1. Stand Alone: Plug/Play. It is not hooked to the network, you just have data on your personal computer.
2. Small Area Network. This is for building-wide database.
3. Wide Area Network. This is for a district-wide database. SQL server.
The software allows for k-12 look at fitness zones district wide. Kathy fielded many questions. Fitnessgram is going web-based for a 9.0 version. What happens to 8.0? Delaware is piloting the web-based program. Export data out of current program and dump into 9.0. Teachers will able to