PE4life Receives Walmart Corporate Giving Grant to Support Arkansas Initiative

(Kansas City, MO – March 8, 2012) – PE4life was recently awarded a $35,000 grant from Wal-mart Corporate Giving to support schools that serve as PE4life training observation sites in their Building A Healthier Northwest Arkansas project. The grant was used to purchase fitness equipment for Kirksey Middle School, Joe Mathias Elementary, and Russell D. Jones Elementary, all in the Rogers School District. Read more.

Northwest Arkansas Schools to Receive PE4life Support

PE4life is pleased to announce the selection of five additional schools to receive grant awards for professional development, through funding provided by The Care Foundation. Read more.

Mission

PE4life contributes to improved fitness, social behavior and learning readiness of children by inspiring and empowering schools and their communities to be catalysts for change in advancing quality physical education.

Vision

All children embrace wellness for life.

Welcome to PE4life Arkansas

PE4life is a regionally-focused non-profit organization with a national reach. Founded in 2000, PE4life desires to develop a country of active and healthy children and youth by inspiring and empowering schools to create and execute quality, daily physical education programs. To accomplish this mission, PE4life focuses on increasing access to quality physical education solutions by advancing the development of daily physical education programs through advocacy efforts and professional development for schools and communities.

Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, PE4life is strong in advocacy and training with a step-by-step integration program in place. Rogers, Arkansas is one of six PE4life Training Centers strategically positioned in the United States proving that PE4life can flourish in any type of community from any socioeconomic background (urban, suburban, rural, etc.). Other training centers are located in Kansas City, Missouri; Grundy Center, Iowa; Naperville, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Titusville, Pennsylvania.

PE4life is dedicated to promoting and integrating wellness programs through fun and interactive physical activity in schools across the United States. To date, PE4life has trained 360 teams with over 3,000 educators, adminstrators and community leaders from 39 states across the country; potentially impacting over 2,855 schools, reaching over 2.2 million children.

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We believe PE should:

offer a variety of fitness, sport, leisure, and adventure activities to all students
implement a K-12 standards-based curriculum

provide a safe and encouraging learning environment
utilize individual assessments
incorporate current technology
extended beyond the walls of the gymnasium
ideally, be offered to every child everyday

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