2026 MOSHAPE Kaleidoscope of Kindness

Members are welcome to attend

Missouri’s newly adopted health education standards create an exciting opportunity to move beyond simply teaching health content and toward developing the skills students need to make healthy decisions throughout their lives. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore practical, evidence-based strategies for implementing skills-based health education aligned to Missouri’s updated standards.

Educators will experience proven HealthSmart instructional practices that strengthen student engagement while building essential health skills, including decision-making, goal-setting, analyzing influences, accessing valid information, interpersonal communication, self-management, and advocacy. Through model lessons, classroom-ready activities, and collaborative planning opportunities, participants will learn how to transform standards into meaningful learning experiences that promote health literacy and positive behavior outcomes.

Attendees will leave with free skills-based health education resources, implementation tools, and access to national best practices that support high-quality health instruction. In addition, participants will receive complimentary review access to the HealthSmart, providing an opportunity to explore a comprehensive, standards-aligned curriculum designed to support effective health education in Missouri schools.

Presenter bio:

Jamie Sparks serves as Agile Product Manager for HealthSmart at ETR and is Executive Director of Kentucky SHAPE. A former Coordinated School Health Director for the Kentucky Department of Education and Past President of SHAPE America, Jamie has spent more than two decades supporting schools, districts, and state agencies in advancing health and physical education. His work focuses on skills-based health education, standards implementation, curriculum design, and professional learning that empowers educators to improve student health literacy and lifelong wellness outcomes.

From “Must-Do” to “Can't-Wait-To-Do”: Fueling physical literacy with student choice. Stop fighting for student engagement and start designing programs they want to be in! This session will guide you through a framework for developing high-interest, relevant PE electives that directly address student motivation. You will learn practical strategies for identifying student passions, creating flexible units, and structuring courses that cultivate intrinsic motivation. Examples of high-engagement courses we'll discuss include: Fitness Walking; Yoga; Moving With Mentors; Lifetime Sports; and Outdoor Pursuits. This session provides best practices for curriculum advocacy, teaching you how to build a compelling case with administration to add new courses or update existing curriculum. Attendees will leave with a blueprint for transforming their traditional PE model into a student-driven system that helps students develop a love of movement and a deep-seated appreciation for valuing physical activity, ensuring their physical literacy journey continues long after they leave your school.

Want a full lesson from start to finish?  You see great ideas all weekend, but are not sure how to put them in to full practice?  This presentation will be a full health lesson teaching the skill of decision making through the content of recognizing emergencies and understanding alcohol.  Come ready to be a student in my Health class!

It’s never too early to start financial planning, it’s also never too late to start financial planning. Most people wish they started sooner but the next best time than any point in history is now. We will cover foundational planning concepts and take a look at how other people like you are planning their finances with confidence.

Jessica Kassel, registered dietitian and nutrition educator with the St. Louis District Dairy Council, will explore the basic nutrition needs of adolescent athletes and how including dairy in the athlete's eating plan can help with recovery and hydration. She will also discuss Dairy Up!, an SLDDC grant program that helps coaches provide dairy foods for athlete recovery after games and practices.

We don't expect athletes to master a physical skill without practice, so why do we expect them to automatically master focus and resilience? This session challenges the traditional, physical-only approach to training. Coaches will discover how to intentionally integrate the mental game into their current regimens, backed by real-world examples and actionable session blueprints used successfully with athletes.

With youth mental health challenges at an all-time high, the need for effective, skills-based education is urgent. This session will explore Erika’s Lighthouse free, turnkey, K-12th-grade programs designed to empower students, reduce stigma, and provide universal depression and suicide prevention education.
In this interactive session, we will explore the successes and challenges of implementing this curriculum across various grade levels, including an exciting first look at our newest expansion: the K-3rd-grade curriculum. You will learn how universal mental health education promotes early identification, encourages student help-seeking, and fosters life-saving conversations.

Join members as they describe their recent SHAPEAmerica Speak Out Day experiences and learn how you can use free, packaged toolkits and resources to ‘speak out’ for Quality Health and Physical Education every day. Advocacy Committee members will also provide updates on state legislation affecting Health and Physical Education.

This round table discussion is for all department chairs, lead teachers, district admin, etc. Anyone that serves in an HPE (Health and Phys Ed.) leadership position for their school or district. Let's chat about current challenges, successes, and new things coming down the pipeline. This is a great place to network and meet others in similar positions as you from around the state.

Participants will
* Learn about the newly adopted standards
* Review how standards align with the Missouri Show-Me Standards for K-12 youth
* Identify new resources on DESE’s updated Health & PE standards web pages

Missouri's long-awaited K–8 health education standards are here! (well, the DESE Website) This session breaks down what's new, what skills-based really means for your K-8 practice, and how to hit the ground running with ready-to-implement activities for every grade span (K–2, 3–5, and 6–8). Whether you're a PE teacher, Health teacher, a classroom teacher, or somewhere in between, you'll leave with real tools and fresh ideas — including cross-curricular connections, problem-based learning, and real-world scenarios that make students actually engage. We'll also tap into the collective wisdom of the room to share what's working across different implementation situations.