SuperCyclist! SuperFun! At TAHPERD Summer Conference
If you are looking for the best in live music, visit Austin, Texas. If you are looking for best and liveliest teachers in Texas, you could have found them at the TAHPERD (Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance) Summer Conference on July 26 and 27th. The conference was held at Akins High School in Austin, Texas.
Over 800 teachers attended the conference. Texas Bicycle Coalition was present with Brenda Chuleewah, Fernando Martinez and Wini Hunton-Chan providing bicycle safety information to the teachers. Many PE teachers are interested in teaching bicycle safety to their students. Texas Bicycle Coalition offers FREE Texas SuperCyclist Certification Training to PE teachers and youth community workers.
During the conference, Brenda Chuleewah, Texas Bicycle Coalition’s Teacher Training Manager, presented SuperCyclist! SuperFun! The teachers were able to play some of the games available in the SuperCyclist Curriculum. They enjoyed teaching each other the 7 Texas Laws by creating a way to show their law with a simple physical action (like Charades). They also played the Bicycle Hang Tag Game, an active relay game that teaches the students the parts of a bicycle. The teacher also learned how to do a Helmet Egg Drop Demo. This is a fun way to teach the importance of wearing a helmet that students enjoy and remember.
Thanks to these dedicated teachers, our children will be encouraged to lead active, healthy lives and also learn to do it safely!
For information on the SuperCyclist Teacher Certification Training, contact Brenda Chuleewah at
This email address is being protected from spam bots, enable JavaScript to view it.
or call 512-476-7433.
2007 BikeEd Conference
If you haven’t registered it is not too late! Our friends at the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) will be bringing the National Bicycle Education Conference (BikeEd) to Austin June 14-16th. Visit www.Bikeleague.org to learn more. Texas Bicycle Coalition sent a BikeEd invitation to over 2,000 Texas elementary PE teachers that have been certified in the SuperCyclist Curriculum. We hope to see many of them at BikeEd!
Texas SuperCyclist Training Gearing UP!
Rain or Shine, BikeTexas SuperCyclist Training for Elementary PE Teachers Goes On!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 dawned as a beautiful, mild, winter day
as fourteen elementary P.E. teachers from the surrounding counties
drove to San Angelo to
participate in the BikeTexas SuperCyclist Certification Training hosted
by the Texas Education Agency Region 15 Center. The farthest travelers
were from Del Rio ISD, 160 miles one-way!
Jenni Price, Region 15 School Health Specialist, was a wonderful
site host and made sure everyone’s needs were met. The evening before,
TBC Staff used their bicycles to explore the seven-mile long series of
trails and park roads that follow the Concho River Greenbelt from the
west side through downtown San Angelo to the east side.
The
SuperCyclist Certification Training is a Texas Bicycle Coalition (TBC)
Education Fund program that provides P.E. teachers with bicycle safety
skills, curriculum and other teaching aids needed to educate 4th and
5th grade children on life-saving bicycle lessons. TBC staff, Brenda
Chuleewah and Mark Stine, presented the training, which provides 6
professional continuing-education credits to each attendee.
A Texas Bicycle Coalition team was elated to be in Fort Worth for the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (TAHPERD) 83rd Annual Convention. Allison Seale, Brenda Chuleewah, Elaine Williams, KC Jones and Byron de Sousa gave a Cowtown size welcome to over 3,000 health, physical education, recreation and dance professionals who came to the Fort Worth Convention Center for this wonderful gathering that started on November 29th and ended on December 2nd, 2006.
LAB
