Paul Wright, NIU’s EC Lane and MN Zimmerman Endowed Professor in Kinesiology and Physical Education, is celebrating the recent publication of ”Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education.” Copyrighted by the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America) and published
Read moreGoing global: Online conference gathers TPSR practitioners for ideas, inspiration
Javon Davis lifted the bottom of his T-shirt to his forehead, simply to mop the sweat that comes from shooting hoops with teenage boys and young men. Then they saw it. Couldn’t miss it. The scar across his stomach. Davis could explain.
Read moreNIU’s online TPSR conference expected to welcome new practitioners, scholars
NIU’s PALS (Physical Activity and Life Skills) Group will host the first all-virtual conference for the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Alliance this summer. Scheduled for July 22 and 23, the event brings together an international group of teachers, coaches and scholars
Read morePaul Wright conceives, co-edits tribute to career mentor, friend Don Hellison
One phone call changed Paul Wright’s life. Wright had completed a bachelor’s degree in biology and had spent two years working in a biochemistry lab when he determined that he wanted, or maybe needed, something else. “I thought of everything from going
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