Friendship teachers Brad Gertis and Deb Warner spent the start of July exploring their curriculum thorough the lens of the New York State Physical Education Standards and assessment. Utilizing resources from NYSED related to the updated PE Learning Standards, they reviewed their district curriculum examining ways to better enhance instruction and assessment in the PE department at Friendship.

One of the resources they used was the Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool or PECAT, which is a self-assessment tool for planning and guiding curriculum for PE. The PECAT is designed to help school districts and schools conduct clear, complete, and consistent analyses of physical education curricula based on physical education standards.
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Specifically, the PECAT accomplishes the following:

• Assesses how closely physical education curricula align with standards for physical education.
• Analyzes outcomes, content, and assessment components of a curriculum that correspond to standards for physical education for three grade levels: K–5, 6–8, and 9–12.
• Helps school districts or individual schools identify changes needed in locally developed curricula.
• Helps school districts or individual schools use the PECAT to develop a physical education curriculum.

With warmer spring weather arriving, PE teachers from across Allegany and Cattaraugus counties met in Portville at the end of May for their final ACTIVE PE Forum of this school year. The PE Forum is an opportunity for the PE teachers from throughout the region to connect with one another and share ideas and participate in showcased activities by the host school.

Half of the districts in the CA BOCES region were represented as these teachers collaborated with colleagues in their content and participated in hands on activities surrounding the Portville Adventure Curriculum.