PE In the News
By
Phil Lawler

Thought I would just share with you some exciting things happening in our program. In a matter of about 48 hours: Time Magazine called and interviewed me for over an hour. They decided to send our a reporter. She visited our program for about three hours. Shortly after Time Magazine left, I received a phone call from the Chicago Tribune. They wanted to interview me for a syndicated column called "KID NEWS". I then received an email from Newsweek. I called an it was a National PBS TV Network based in California. They wanted to fly in and film our physical education classes. That same day I received a phone call from the Washington DC International Business Service. A lady interviewed me about a story she was doing for a Japanese TV Network. The program was about the stress levels of the children in Japan. We discussed how exercise can help control the stress. To top off the day, I received an email from the George Lucas (Star Wars) Educational Foundation. They want to interview me next week about our physical education program. So Tuesday of this week , we had Time Magazine, PBS National News and the Chicago Tribune all at our school at the same time. This was great exposure for our school but it was also great exposure for all physical education teachers nation wide.

For more information, contact:

Phil Lawler ; plaw@uss.net

Madison Junior High

Naperville, Illinois

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