PE standards panel advances draft revisions, tables vote on two domains

Sharon E. Case, deputy assistant superintendent of academic content, presided over a meeting of the Department of Education’s PE Standards Review Committee where staff presented draft revisions to K–12 physical education standards and the committee agreed to postpone a formal vote on domains 3 and 4 until its next meeting.

Morgan Smith, the Department’s director of health and physical education, delivered the committee’s informational report, describing multiple changes intended to tighten language and strengthen vertical alignment across grade bands. "The revised standard now reads, 'demonstrate activities to improve muscular strength and endurance,'" Smith said, noting the edit moves expectations from mere identification to active performance in early grades.

The revisions aim to make standards more applied across grades. For K–5, the work group recommended shifting emphasis…