Hi Oregon Physical Educators! I hope that the month of January is going well for you. As your president I am working hard with the Board of Directors on continuing our growth as an organization. There is a lot on the horizon for Oregon SHAPE. As stated before my main goals as president are improving our communications with members and creating multiple opportunities for quality professional development throughout the year for Oregon Physical Educators. We are currently working to create a half day workshop that will take place at Concordia University in May. This will be a free workshop from 9-1PM focused on the current best practices in physical education with an emphasis on using technology. More details to come soon on this. Secondly, we are currently working to secure the site for the Oregon SHAPE conference which will take place in October of 2015! Lastly, the SHAPE America Convention is coming up in March. This year as you know it's going to be in Seattle. If you need help trying to convince your administration that you should go below is a resource the SHAPE has put together to help justify your trip. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions.

Oregon SHAPE President

Collin Brooks (@collinbrooksie)

We are so thankful to have our Board of Directors give their time to support members and advocate for quality health and physical education within our state. We want to take some time to showcase all of our Board of Directors. Each newsletter we will be featuring one member of the board. You will get to know a little bit about them and what they are going to bring to the members of Oregon SHAPE.

Watch the hangout to learn more about your newest board member - Naomi Hartl!

Email: naomihartl@gmail.com

Twitter: @misshartl

The #PhysEdSummit is an online free digital conference designed for Physical Educators by physical educators. The #PhysEdSummit took place on October 25th, 2014. Please feel free to view past session here. The #PhysEdSummit 2.0 will take place on Saturday, February 21st at 7:00 am pacific time (11:00 am eastern time). We will be hosting the #PhysEdSummit 2.0 through Google Hangouts on Air. It will be a LIVE presentation pushed through YouTube. Since all sessions will be live, the audience will have to choose which session they would like to listen to/watch. All sessions will be recorded and posted to YouTube for others to view after the Summit. This is a great opportunity for professional development and you can receive PDU's for watching live or viewing recorded sessions. Below is a save the date we created to get the word out about this great opportunity for free quality professional development at the seat of your computer. Please share this with your colleagues! View the conference program and find more details here.

Sincerely,

The #PhysEdSummit Team

The Bike Safety Education Training is a 6-hour, on-bike training for educators from a variety of arenas to learn how to conduct on-bike Bike Safety Education for youth in grades 4-7. This training will prepare attendees to teach a 10-hour on-bike Bike Safety Education class to students. The curriculum is adaptable, but is primarily focused on benchmarks for youth ages 9-12. The BTA's curriculum is delivered to more than 10,000 Oregon students every year and is considered a national model for on-bike education.

The Bicycle Transportation Alliance would like to train PE Teachers in Bike Safety Education. BTA is seeking a location, date and participants. Here is a survey for you to give input.

Want to know more? Check out their website!