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Focused Fitness Professional Development

Presented by Focused Fitness


Focused Fitness provides comprehensive physical education curriculum, data collection software, and professional development training to support teachers in implementing quality PE programmes across K–12 settings. Their flagship Five for Life Programme is an articulated, evidence-based fitness and health curriculum aligned with SHAPE America National Standards for K–12 Physical Education. The Five for Life Programme moves students through a continuum of learning using age-appropriate academic instructional units in an activity-based setting, available at Basic (Elementary), Intermediate (Middle School), and Advanced (High School) levels. Each level includes student introductions, vocabulary lists, activities with formative assessments, and summative unit assessments. Complementing the curriculum, WELNET data collection and reporting software provides physical educators with tools to gather student fitness data, track the five components of fitness, assess health knowledge, monitor health-related habits, support student goal setting, and communicate results. Focused Fitness professional development includes curriculum development workshops where experts guide teachers in building curriculum infrastructure—including mission statements, curriculum maps, yearly plans, common assessments, and lesson plans—as well as WELNET training sessions available on-site and via webinar to help educators maximise the platform's assessment and reporting capabilities.

Key Takeaways

Implementing the Five for Life evidence-based PE curriculum; using WELNET software for fitness data collection and reporting; building PE curriculum infrastructure including maps and assessments; tracking student fitness across the five components; aligning physical education with SHAPE America National Standards

Evidence base: Five for Life Programme aligned with SHAPE America National Standards for K–12 Physical Education; evidence-based curriculum design incorporating formative and summative assessments; WELNET data collection system supporting evidence-based tracking of student fitness outcomes

Presenter

Focused Fitness curriculum experts

Focused Fitness professional development is delivered by curriculum experts specialising in physical education, fitness assessment, and the implementation of standards-aligned PE programmes.

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