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Health and Physical Education

email link icon Jennifer J. Powell [ jennifer_j_powell@fc.dekalb.k12.ga ], Coordinator
1701 Mountain Industrial Boulevard
Stone Mountain, GA  30083
678.676.0142
678.676.0229 (fax)

The health and physical education (HPE) department is composed of elementary and secondary HPE specialists who serve all schools and centers. Our mission is to contribute to each student's growth and development in the physical, cognitive, and social domains through a movement-based curriculum. This will involve a unified approach to education (parents, community, and school) coupled with the delivery of a planned, sequential K–12 instructional curriculum that teaches the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) skills, behaviors, and knowledge necessary to exemplify good health and maintain a physically active lifestyle. Quality health and physical education instruction involves the whole child by providing psychomotor, cognitive, and affective benefits.

Policy Highlights

  • all schools are strongly recommended to incorporate thirty minutes of daily physical education
  • all physical education specialists will utilize the state mandate Fitnessgram test for grades one through twelve to assess their students' fitness levels at the beginning and end of each school year
  • all schools will conduct the School Health Index for Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and a Tobacco-Free Lifestyle assessment annually
  • all students in kindergarten through five shall have at least fifteen minutes of supervised, unstructured break time each day
  • breaks shall not be withheld from students for disciplinary or academic reasons
  • Supervised, unstructured breaks may be provided for students in grades six through eight at the discretion of the principal.

Graduation Requirements

  • Health—0.5 units
  • Physical Education—0.5 units

Temperature Guidelines for Outdoor Instruction

  • wind-chill factor should be taken into consideration for forty-one degrees or higher
  • forty degrees or below—stay inside