Teacher Magazine: Sports and Activities

July 2, 2009

Sports and Activities

Kavya Shivashankar won the Scripps National Spelling Bee and more than $40,000 in cash and prizes by correctly spelling "Laodicean." (May 29, 2009)

High School Sports Injuries

Male and female high school athletes are more likely to sustain injuries during official competitions such as games or races than when practicing their sports. (April 1, 2008)

Do Your Omwork

Efforts to balance academics with yoga and old-fashioned play. (December 22, 2006)

Aerobic Instruction

Weaving physical education into the daily routine. (November 10, 2006)

Full Court Verse

Combining two seemingly diametric opposites—the love of literature and the love of basketball—Marty Mentzer's Basketball Poets club has managed to raise kids' achievement levels and has become a model for movement-boosted learning. (August 12, 2006)

Rising Up

Eight years ago, a California school district abolished a two-tiered system for academic haves and have-nots and replaced it with one pointing all students toward college. It's paying off. (August 12, 2006)

The Spoken Word

Students speak out at a national poetry recitation contest. A multimedia report. (May 23, 2006)

Ramblin’ Man

Kentucky native Joe Bowen isn't just crossing the country by bicycle. He's bringing elementary school kids along for the ride. (November 11, 2005)

Political Theater

In a Missouri town, a $980,000 bequest from a local benefactor prompts questions about who ultimately controls private donations to public schools. (September 30, 2005)

Striking a Chord

Growing numbers of educators are using music, and guitars especially, to reinforce lessons across the curriculum. (August 12, 2005)

Magical Mystery Tour

Bearing John Lennon's name, a tour bus packed with recording equipment offers high schoolers a creative outlet. (August 11, 2005)

Go, Offense

Politically incorrect mascots fight to stay on the field. (August 12, 2005)

Raising the Bar

An acclaimed ballet dancer returns home to Florida's so-called Redneck Riviera and opens a magnet school for dance. (April 15, 2005)

Where the Wild Things Are

By tracking coyotes through urban neighborhoods, high school students help dispel unbased fears. (February 18, 2005)

Extra Terrestrial

How one environmental science teacher turned an empty lot into an open-air lab. (December 27, 2004)

Summer in the City

Outward Bound forsakes the wilderness for the urban jungle to help teachers encourage student risk-taking. (December 27, 2004)

Range of Motion

To counter obesity and other health problems, disabled students in Alaska are given extra attention to stay physically fit. (December 27, 2004)

Hudson River School

For 35 years, the replica sloop Clearwater has offered students a glimpse of the storied past and murky present of New York waterways. (November 12, 2004)

Paper Trail

Largely by word-of-mouth, children's book character Flat Stanley has linked students around the world. (November 12, 2004)

Honor Role

Students at the top of the academic heap should challenge what’s normally taken for granted, a parent argues. (October 7, 2004)

Excerpt: Courtesy Call

As a defensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts, the 6-foot-4-inch, 260-pound Joe Ehrmann was an all-pro bruiser on the field and a party animal off of it. But in 1978, after his 18-year-old brother died of cancer, Ehrmann blazed another path. (October 7, 2004)

Playing It by Ear

The Louisville Leopard Percussionists owe their accolades to elementary school teacher Diane Downs, a closetful of abandoned instruments, and no small measure of intuition. Includes audio clips. (October 8, 2004)

Double Shift

Vocational education should challenge the divide between manual and mental work. (October 8, 2004)

Silicon Valley, WV

A rural school offers state-of-the-art computer training that challenges conventional wisdom about vocational education. (May 1, 2004)

Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

Behind the scenes at the International Mathematical Olympiad. (May 1, 2004)