Sarah Gietschier-Hartman teaches high school health and physical education in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas (2007) and Emporia State University (2010). Sarah has been a collaborator for PHYSEDagogy since 2014. In 2018, she was named the SHAPE America National Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year. Sarah believes the combination of these things―experiences, skills, knowledge, health and physical literacy development, guidance to be involved in lifelong physical activity, lesson progressions, planning, developmentally appropriate challenges, and authentic assessments―produces a learning environment that is engaging, challenging, reflective, and fun.

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