school setting offers an attractive environment for advancing innovations designed to cultivate physically active lifestyles given that schools have extensive reach and access to young people. 3 In addition, given that most school-aged youth are not meeting the international consensus guideline of
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Predicting the Presence of Active Schools: A National Survey of School Principals in the United States
Brian Dauenhauer, Taemin Ha, Collin Webster, Heather Erwin, Erin Centeio, Jillian Papa, and Charlene Burgeson
Associations of Physical Activity Enjoyment and Physical Education Enjoyment With Segmented Daily Physical Activity in Children: Exploring Tenets of the Trans-Contextual Model of Motivation
Ryan D. Burns, Yang Bai, Leslie W. Podlog, Timothy A. Brusseau, and Gregory J. Welk
, 2000 ). Previous work has shown the positive influence enjoyment has on physical activity behavior. It has been previously documented that global physical activity enjoyment is associated with both overall activity levels as well as physical activity at school and at home ( Bai et al., 2018 ). Indeed
A Whole-of-School Approach to Physical Activity Promotion: The Case of One Secondary School in England
Emma Jaymes and Collin A. Webster
adolescents aged 11–17 years old are not meeting the international consensus guideline of participating in at least 60 min of PA each day ( WHO, 2020 ). The school environment presents an important setting for increasing adolescents’ PA, given the unparalleled reach that schools have with youth. In its global
2022 Para Report Card on Physical Activity of Israeli Children and Adolescents With Disabilities
Yeshayahu Hutzler, Riki Tesler, Avinoam Gilad, Kwok Ng, and Sharon Barak
education system in the country is divided between Hebrew and Arabic speakers. The Hebrew-speaking school attendants are also divided according to religious practice (i.e., secular or nationally religious systems). Based on a representative survey, approximately 326,000 Israeli children and adolescents (11
The Secondary School Curriculum: Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives
Dominique Banville, Risto Marttinen, and Alba Rodrigues
Studies examining children’s experiences of curriculum offerings in physical education (PE) are primarily focused on secondary schools as multiple studies show that students’ attitudes toward PE start to drop around sixth grade ( Silverman, 2017 ). So not surprisingly, the origins of this study
Effects of Sharing Data With Teachers on Student Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in the Classroom
Katie L. Hodgin, Lauren von Klinggraeff, Brian Dauenhauer, Jaimie M. McMullen, Ann Pulling Kuhn, Peter Stoepker, and Russell L. Carson
indicate rates as low as 10% or less of youth meeting this recommendation. 5 Considering children are in school 7 to 9 hours a day 6 and spend ∼65% of their time there sedentary, 7 , 8 schools are valuable settings for helping students meet the national PA recommendation. The Institute of Medicine 9
Association of Walking and Biking to School Policies and Active Commuting to School in Children
Leigh Ann Ganzar, Katie Burford, Yuzi Zhang, Anna Gressett, Harold W. Kohl III, and Deanna M. Hoelscher
Active commuting to and from school (ACS) by walking and biking provides numerous physical and mental health benefits for children. Children engaged in ACS are more likely to meet daily physical activity guidelines of at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity, have higher levels
Sports Participation During Adolescence and Menstrual Cycle Education Status in Females Across Six Territories
Phoebe Law, Natalie Brown, Charles Pedlar, and Georgie Bruinvels
Girls going through puberty face a number of challenges that can impact their participation in sports ( Women in Sport, 2018 ). These challenges can be related to increased social or school pressures, as well as physiological changes, and, consequential negative attitudes toward body image and
Promoting Health-Related Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Physical Education: The Role of Lesson Context and Teacher Behavior in an Observational Longitudinal Study
Miguel Peralta, Élvio Rúbio Gouveia, Gerson Ferrari, Ricardo Catunda, Duarte Heriques-Neto, and Adilson Marques
Schools provide opportunities for children and adolescents to engage in physical activity (PA) during discrete periods of the day ( Bocarro et al., 2012 ; Kelly et al., 2019 ; Stratton et al., 2008 ). Physical education (PE) predominantly, which is part of the school curriculum in most countries
Conceptualizing, Defining, and Measuring Before-School Physical Activity: A Review With Exploratory Analysis of Adolescent Data
James Woodforde, Sjaan Gomersall, Anna Timperio, Venurs Loh, Hannah Browning, Francisco Perales, Jo Salmon, and Michalis Stylianou
PA levels ( World Health Organization, 2018 ). Studies may focus on one or more parts of the day, or discrete segments, when reporting results ( Saint-Maurice et al., 2018 ). Such research can enhance our understanding of variability in PA patterns (e.g., across the school day) and our understanding
