NC Dept. of Public Instruction

North Carolina's Standard Course of Study has been completely overhauled and new standards are to be implemented in classrooms beginning in 2012-13. NC DPI provides an Instructional Toolkit designed to help teachers pattern their instruction and classroom student assessments to the state's newly adopted curriculum.

Below are the links to these new standards along with the newly written guidelines for Fitness Testing.

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/docs/acre/standards/support-tools/crosswalks/health/pe.pdf

NCAAHPERD was instrumental in advocating for HB 1757 (below) and was on the committee to write the guidelines for Fitness Testing.

RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT to Direct the State board of education to develop guidelines for public schools to use evidence‑based fitness testing for students statewide in grades kindergarten through eight, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE legislative TASK FORCE ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY.

The general supervision and administration of the free public school system shall be vested in the State Board of Education. The State Board of Education shall establish policy for the system of free public schools, subject to laws enacted by the General Assembly. The powers and duties of the State Board of Education are defined as follows:

(37)      To Adopt Guidelines for Fitness Testing. – The State Board of Education shall adopt guidelines for the development and implementation of evidence‑based fitness testing for students statewide in grades kindergarten through eight."

This act is effective when it becomes law.  Implementation of the guidelines developed as required in Section 1 of this act shall begin with the 2011‑2012 school year.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8^th day of July, 2010.

The note below is from Paula Hildebrand - Chief Health and Community Relations Officer, NC Department of Public Instruction, to the committee writing the new fitness testing guidelines:

Please accept my thanks for the great discussions and work that took place regarding the development of the Fitness Testing Guidelines!  I believe that the final document accurately represents the work that was submitted and in a consistent format.  The State Board of Education was pleased with the guidelines, as presented, and interested in the topic.

I did give a summary of what had taken place in NC with the FITNESSGRAM efforts and the work of NCAAHPERD as well as the number of LEAs which are voluntarily conducting fitness testing.

http://dpi.state.nc.us/docs/stateboard/meetings/2011/06/hrs/06hrs.pdf