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Maria Mind Body Health
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If you are wondering how to make pork cheeks, I have the BEST recipe for you!

Pork cheeks are tender and oh so delicious!

We did a special add on with our Butcherbox subscription of Pork Cheeks. I honestly have never had pork cheeks before but they are delicious IF you cook them right! So I got in the kitchen and started writing a perfect keto recipe for making pork cheeks!

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You know I love getting my food delivered so I can spend more time doing things I enjoy than going to the store; that’s why I got

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Protecting Athlete Wellness in the Hyper-Competitive World of Sports – PHE America
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Protecting Athlete Wellness in the Hyper-Competitive World of Sports – PHE America

Sport is captivating. Engaging in it elicits strong emotions for many people, like passion, excitement, and love. Sport is so central to many people’s lives that it impacts the choices participants and spectators make about how they live. For example, practice and game schedules often determine how one’s days, weeks, and even vacations are planned. In addition, the great value is placed on the role of sport in our lives. Sport is argued to be a place where people can learn and practice socially valued behaviors such as teamwork, perseverance and hard work; all characteristics are also used to describe

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Coding Pathways with Ozobots in PE – PHE America
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Coding Pathways with Ozobots in PE – PHE America

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I love finding creative ways to incorporate STEAM into Physical Education. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. I was at my daughter’s Open House for her enrichment class in Bayport where she was showing me how her class was using Ozobots to practice coding. I was immediately intrigued by these little coding robots. I immediately noticed how the students’ faces lit up with excitement as they explained to their parents all the functions you could perform with them. Immediately I thought: what if we combine fitness activities with coding? What a great way to relate to the

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The Effects of the Pandemic on Physical Education School-Aged Children – PHE America
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The Effects of the Pandemic on Physical Education School-Aged Children – PHE America

The global pandemic has wreaked havoc on academics, classrooms, and physical education. There is no doubt physical education and the physical development of children during their developmental years were greatly affected by the pandemic. Physical education is a field in which physical distancing, wearing masks, and avoiding close contact is extremely difficult. The importance of physical education for a child’s social, emotional, and physical well-being has been shown for decades (Bailey, 2006). As the country slowly comes out of the pandemic restrictions, interest in how physical education classes were affected during a pandemic should be studied.

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During the early 2022

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Become a Better Small Business Leader With These 3 Simple Steps
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Become a Better Small Business Leader With These 3 Simple Steps

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One of the biggest challenges that small business owners face is also the one biggest thing that will ensure their success: leadership.

Regardless of the industry, the majority of small business owners I work with have similar backstories: They are good at what they do, they hate their job/boss, and they feel that they can do better on their own. Often, they’re right. Yet, when that same small business owner wants to scale and reach new levels of success (because we all know that there is a limit to reaching those levels

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A Perceived Philosophical Conflict – PHE America
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A Perceived Philosophical Conflict – PHE America

I am the only female in my high school PE department. It’s been this way for 20 years. The one time another female came in she tried to out-alpha the football coach and got removed from teaching PE and placed in Health. I think she might have taught one section of PE in the two years she was here, and I think it was Adapted PE. Since we’ve had a fully working weight room, it was always paired with the football coach. We got a new one this year, the fifth in my tenure working at this same high school.

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A Practical Approach to Confidence – PHE America
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A Practical Approach to Confidence – PHE America

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When I study confidence, I always come away with two distinct themes and one troubling thought. First, it is obvious that confidence is important, so important that even when we are tricked into making it, we perform better (Vealey & Chase, 2008). Second, it is almost always described as a feeling (Burton & Raedeke, 2008; Vealey & Chase, 2008; Zinsser, Bunker, & Williams, 2010). The part that always troubled me was why we would leave something so important up to how we feel about it. After all, the only time confidence matters is when it is tested

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Striving to be a Superhero Physical Education Teacher – PHE America
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Striving to be a Superhero Physical Education Teacher – PHE America

What would the perfect physical education teacher do? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Who do you picture when you think of the perfect teacher? Maybe like me, you picture someone made up of a combination of all the great teachers you’ve ever met, all wrapped up into one incredible superhero package?

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Years ago, I fleetingly believed I was on top of the teaching game, perhaps even on my way toward superhero status, until I humbly learned the benchmark I was measuring myself against was outdated and missing major components. My students liked me and they loved physical education,

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