Health & Physical Education

Portrait of Tracey Leonard 

Tracey Leonard
Supervisor of Health, Physical Education, & Athletics
[email protected]

 

The Supervisor of Health, Physical Education, and Athletics provides administrative and instructional leadership in the planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of effective health and physical education programs for grades PreK through twelve. This position also coordinates the Safe and Drug Free programs such as D.A.R.E. and CPR in schools. All matters dealing with AEDs and training for CPR & First Aid, including Epi-pens, are coordinated through this office.

 

Health & Physical Education

Allegany County Public Schools promotes and protects the inclusion of all students in Physical Education in grades Pre-K through Grade 8. 

  • Course 711 - Physical Education is a required course for graduation.  This course is designed to introduce students to a basic program of physical fitness, team sports, and individual lifetime recreational activities.  Emphasis is placed on developing physical skills, acquiring knowledge of movement, rules, and promoting a positive self-image as related to social and emotional behavior.

  • Course 481 - Comprehensive Health Education is a semester course required for graduation.  This course provides students with valid information about living a healthy lifestyle.  The intent of this course is to help students incorporate decision-making skills, refusal skills, and goal-setting skills into several topic areas: Nutrition and Fitness, Personal and Consumer Health, Mental and Emotional Health, Disease Prevention, Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco, Family Life and Human Sexuality and Safety, and Injury Prevention.  Additionally, students will have instruction and training for the American Heart Associations, Hands Only CPR program that includes the use of an AED.

Elective classes in high school provide students with the opportunity to develop individual and team skills for better health and fitness. Additional information regarding Physical Education can be found at MSDE's  Standards-Based Physical Education.

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Physical Education for Students with Disabilities

  • The Fitness and Athletic Equity Act asks local school systems to promote and protect the inclusion of students with disabilities into mainstream physical education. 
    The Board of Education believes in the importance of offering physical education and athletic programs to all students. It is the policy of the Board of Education that all students with disabilities have equivalent opportunities for participation in mainstream physical education and interscholastic athletic programs.  Appropriate and reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities shall be provided.
    The ACPS regulation for Section I: Corollary Physical Education & Athletics (FILE: IHBA-1) can be located on the Board Policies.
    • All ACPS students are assigned to courses based on 100% full inclusion by grade level not by clinical level.  Students are then provided support services where needed and as indicated on their IEP or 504 plan.
    • Adaptive Physical Education is an option intended for those students who cannot meet grade level outcomes because their needs require that they receive a different physical education program than their peers.

    The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) has released A Guide for Serving Students with Disabilities in Physical Education. This resource can be used to assist with decision making in regard to providing quality physical education opportunities to students with disabilities.

     
    Parents can find helpful links and resources related to Adaptive Physical Education and other topics related to disabilities and support services by logging on to: http://www.marylandlearninglinks.org
     
    For more information about Adaptive Physical Education or the inclusion of students with disabilities into mainstream physical education please contact:
    Mrs. Tracey Leonard

    Dr. Wendy Main
    Supervisor of Health, Physical Education, & Athletics

    Director of Special Education & Student Services
    Phone: 301-759-2404

    Phone: 301-759-2064
     
 

Hands-Only CPR

  • The Maryland graduation requirement states that beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2015-2016 school year, to graduate from a public high school, a student shall complete, as part of the health or physical education curriculum, instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that includes the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).  
     
    Allegany County Public Schools is meeting this requirement by incorporating a CPR in Schools program where all students enrolled in 481-Comprehensive Health will learn Hands-Only CPR.
     
    For more information about Hands-Only CPR or our Health Curriculum, please contact Tracey Leonard, Supervisor of PE/Health/Athletics, or or by visiting the American Heart Association website: http://cpr.heart.org

 

 
CPR Resource Videos:

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Official Music Video)

CPR and AED Use for Schools- Part 1- Hands Only CPR

Heart Saver First Aid