Region 10: A Regional APE Center in Texas

I am excited to be bringing you a new episode on adapted physical education (APE). This episode specifically focused on a regional center (Region 10) in the state of Texas, which helps to provide resources and professional development specific to APE to the entire state of Texas. For this episode we were able to do a in-person interview with three of the APE professionals at Region 10. The three interviewees were Amy Talbert, Randy Foederer, and Angela Campbell. Unfortunately, in many other states we do not have a designated regional center that helps to promote the field of APE. My hopes from this episode are to share resources from Region 10 to my listeners/readers, as well as to give you all the idea and maybe the framework to develop regional centers similar to Region 10 in other states. 

This podcast is part one of a two part episode. Part one focuses specifically on (a) how Region 10 came to be, (b) what types of professional development they deliver to different schools, and (c) some of the different assessment tools they developed and how they can be used. 

With this podcast we wanted to share some of the many resources that Region 10 has to share. First and foremost it is a great idea to visit their website, which has just about all of their major resources.

In addition, I want to specifically point out one of the links to their assessments they have created. They have developed many different authentic tools that can be used to assess a variety of needs in an APE setting. We discuss these assessments in-depth in the podcast. 

If you are interested in purchasing the curriculum book on how to develop a Partner PE program, a reverse mainstreaming PE program, here is the link to purchase the book.