The IsPOD Initiative
IsPOD is NCAAHPERD's flagship initiative in the fight against childhood obesity in North Carolina. Before the obesity epidemic entered the current public zeitgeist, NCAAHPERD recognized the trend and developed a multi-tiered strategy to combat the issue.
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Reports Available
View IsPOD state-wide and district annual reports from Fall 2010 to Spring 2011 (available in the Data tab.)
FG9 Mobile
Now available to NC physical educators: FG9 Mobile App for the Apple iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
SPARK™ Training
Preview the SPARK™ Regional Training calendar for 2012; Submit a request to attend a session.
FG9 Upgrades to New Servers for NC Users
Since 2009, North Carolina physical and health educators across the state have utilized the FITNESSGRAM® 9 program to assess the physical fitness levels of students. Over this three-year period, participation and use of the FITNESSGRAM® web-based application has increased exponentially throughout North Carolina and therefore we must move the FITNESSGRAM® 9 application to a more powerful and robust server environment.
In the most recent fall 2011 semester alone we received almost 400,000 student fitness assessments - this is more than the total amount of student assessments received from spring 2009 to spring 2011!
Over the next 8 weeks, FITNESSGRAM® 9 will be offline as we improve the application by hosting it on different servers. Our target date to have FITNESSGRAM® back up and running on the new server environment – along with the student surveys – is March 19, 2012.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us.
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Help Desk
The IsPOD Help Desk is here to help. Find answers in the Knowledgebase or submit a specific support ticket.
Social Media
Social media is the new way to communicate. NCAAHPERD is proud to offer social media throughout several networks.
The IsPOD initiative will obtain student, teacher, and class information via NCWISE in early September, 2011. Data will be imported into secure IsPOD databases immediately there-after.
Once FITNESSGRAM becomes available to North Carolina teachers, each physical education teacher will receive an e-mail with their FITNESSGRAM™ username & password, along with a link to access the application.
Please do not send help-desk tickets requesting a username and password until after the FITNESSGRAM™ program has launched in September.
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