SHAPE MT 2026

Engage your mind, energize your teaching! In this interactive session, participants will experience over two dozen board games designed to challenge and enhance health literacy, and social-emotional learning. Each game will be paired with purposeful discussion and strategies for connecting game play to SHAPE America's National Health Education Standards. Discover how these adaptable activities can be used to reinforce concepts such as decision-making, goal setting, and interpersonal skills -- all while keeping students actively engaged. Walk away with fresh ideas, and a renewed perspective on how board gaming can transform your classroom and school into a home of fun, impactful, strategic learning!

We will talk about bike safety, how I get kids riding in 3rd-5th grade and how to put on a bike rodeo at your school.  Benefits of biking, safety - helmet, road safety.  This session will start in the classroom and then head outside for hands-on activities.

We live in a world obsessed with appearance.  With the advent of social media we are seeing children at younger and younger ages impacted by the false idea of ideal body size.  Kids as young as three show preference for thin bodies over larger bodies. Weight is the number one reason for bullying in schools, and more adolescents and young adults report body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behavior than ever before.  BeReal is a non-profit dedicated to spreading body confidence around the world.  They are developing resources to support communities tin changing the culture around food and bodies. In this session, you will be provided with evidence-based tools and strategies to change body culture in your school. You will leave with practical tools and strategies to address body and food concerns in the classroom and provided with additional resources to support you in creating a body inclusive culture within your school system.