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Why is Physical Education Important?
The purpose of Physical Education is to equip students with the physical skills, knowledge and social attributes necessary to live a fit, healthy, active life. It is also an important part of the curriculum, allowing students to participate in the exercise and movement needed during the day to activate and prime their brains for learning.
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Michigan Physical Education Standards
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/K_12_PE_Standards_Aug_17_ADA_compliance9-18_601116_7.pdf
PECAT (Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool)
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Instructional Framework for Physical Education (from SHAPE America)
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Needs Assessments
The Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth (MiPHY) is an online student health survey offered by the Michigan Departments of Education and Health and Human Services to support local and regional needs assessment. The MiPHY provides student results on health behaviors including physical activity and nutrition, in grades 7, 9, and 11. The survey also measures risk and protective factors most predictive of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and violence. MiPHY results, along with other school-reported data, will help schools make data-driven decisions to improve your physical education program.
To find more information and a “Quick Start Guide” go to www.michigan.gov/miphy
To access regional data go to https://mdoe.state.mi.us/schoolhealthsurveys/ExternalReports/CountyReportGeneration.aspx
Directions to obtain Regional Data Video
HSAT stands for Healthy School Action Tools - Comprehensive tools designed to help Michigan schools and districts create a culture that supports learning by first measuring the health of school environments, including physical activity, physical education and nutrition, and then planning and implementing improvements based on best practices.
To learn more go to www.mihealthtools.org 
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories of health-related behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including physical inactivty and poor nutrition. The data is by State. To find Michigan YRBS data, go to https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.htm
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Helpful Links
Medicaid Outreach
www.mchigan.gov/mibridges
Please share with families the MiBridges site, and let them know that is where they can apply for Free to low-cost medical coverage for their children, as well as other assistnace.
Here is a short video on how MiBridges works.
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Regional Health Education and Physical Edution Workshops
Virtual this year, from 12p-3p. You register in Wisdomwhere.
Dates:
10/6/2020
11/11/2020
1/6/2021
2/25/2021
4/7/2021
Other professional learning opportunties through other organizations, such as SHAPE, are promoted as they become available.

Making Connections
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Multi-Tiered System of Supports
Through the lens of systems-work, the EUPISD promotes the installation and implementation of multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) as defined by the MTSS Practice Profile. Through MTSS implementation, we work to meet all of our students’ academic and non-academic needs.
MTSS is a comprehensive framework comprised of a collection of research-based strategies designed to meet the needs of the whole child. Developed in Michigan by a collaborative stakeholder group, the MTSS Practice Profile includes the following Essential Components:
- Team-Based Leadership
- Tiered Delivery System
- Selection and Implementation of Instruction, Interventions and Supports
- Comprehensive Screening & Assessment System
- Continuous Data-Based Decision Making.
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child
The EUPISD recognizes that for many years, districts and schools have focused on the academic needs of students; being educational institutions, that is entirely understandable. Recently, it has become increasingly clear that academic success is influenced by many other factors which can significantly impact achievement and teaching practices. In other words, we must address and provide supports for social-emotional, physical and mental well-being of students by design, or we will have to deal with them by default.
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model outlines a collaborative approach to meeting the whole child's needs. It recognizes five core tenets, the ten components of Coordinated School Health, and the need for policies, practices and processes aligned to the model. Developed through a partnership between the ASCD (the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) and the CDC (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and adopted by the Michigan Department of Education, the WSCC model recognizes essential community partnerships and requires schools to look outside of their bricks and mortar to truly meet student needs. Most importantly, the WSCC model encourages a systems approach and can be used to drive a tiered delivery system as part of a school's integrated continuous improvement.
Continuous Improvement Process
The EUPISD supports an effective continuous improvement pathway for all disricts, focused on meeting as many needs as possible with data, funding, tools, and differentiated supports to improve whole child outcomes. A high-functioning continuous improvement process should be comprised of the following:
- Equitable opportunities, environments, and supports resulting in students that are healthy, safe, engaged, challenged, and supported,
- A continuous cycle of improvement that informs the way we work on a daily basis (rather than being an annual event designed to meet compliance requirements),
- Improvement processes that are integrated rather than isolated,
- Continuous improvement targets that reflect non-academic areas that influence academic achievement (rather than just academics by themselves),
- Improvement plans that consider systems necessary to support high-quality implementation of actions and high levels of student outcomes.
- A committment to understanding students through lenses that consider not only needs, but also assets.
Phone: 906-632-3373, ext. 5132
Email:
Degrees and Certifications:
Master of Public Administration Keller Graduate School of Management DeVry University Bachelor of Studio Arts, Minor Psychology Michigan State University Trained Trainer for: ACES, Michigan Model for Health, Sex Education and HIV, Bully-Free Schools-Peer Aggression, LGBTQ, Action-Based Learning
Ms. Lisa Jo Gagliardi
Regional School Health Coordinator
Lisa Jo Gagliardi is a resource for student's physical and social emotional health. Working under the WSCC Model (Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child), Lisa Jo works on various grant programs to help students’ non-academic needs be met, as well as being the consultant for health education PK-12, and physical education. Some programs Lisa Jo currently works on are: Comprehensive School Health (Michigan Model for Health and Sex ed/HIV and LGBTQ), The U.P. Health Project, ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) presentations, Action-Based/Brain-Based Learning presentations, the MEMPSA Integrating Health into School Improvement Plans grant, McKinnney Vento, and serving in leadership capacities as part of the Regional Implementation Team for MTSS Scale Up, EUPISD NCA Accreditation, and the Michigan School Health Coordinators' Association.
Lisa Jo began her career in Kalamazoo working for a large non-profit, grant funded, serving people with disabilities. Her background in mental health knowledge, grant writing and administration, and public administration led her to become the elementary counseling grant coordinator for Rudyard Elementary where she oversaw the project implementation with two social workers and two counselors. She also soon became the Response to Intervention coordinator, getting staffed trained and implementing RTI in ELA. After working for Rudyard, Lisa Jo took her current position at the EUPISD. Over the years she has written many grants, overseen five school-based health centers, headed two large grants; physical education grant and elementary counseling grant that was allocated to three elementary schools, worked on Farm to School, and other Whole Child programs.
Contact for:
Comprehensive School Health for EUPISD and COPESD (predominantly Michigan Model for Health PK-12 and Sex Ed/HIV)
WSCC (Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child)
UP Health Project
MEMSPA IHSIP Project for Soo Twp and Houghton Lake Middle School
Regional Implementation Team for MTSS
Youth Mental Health Community Conversations-Building Resilient Communities committee Chair
Health and PE CRT
ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Presenter
Action-Based/Brain Based Learning facilitator
LGBTQ professional development/creating positive safe school climates
Bully-Free Schools: Circles of Support, SRSS-IE Resource