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(music) (music) (music) (music) (music) (music) (music) (cheering) (clapping) Be Well Everybody close your eyes for me picture yourself at your local swimming pool or an outdoor pool you may have been to your chair relaxed or smiling the school is finally out you can feel the warm summer sun on your skin when is comes over you when you get an intense smell of chlorine sunscreen and fresh cut grass The Lifeguard blows her whistle to stop kids from running on the pool deck the family next few battles of getting a final coat of sunscreen goggles assembled prepped and ready for this morning swim lesson May open your eyes this is where my teaching begin teaching swimming at my local swimming pool I'm sure most of you may prefer to sit next to a pool right now maybe with a margarita in hand even though it's 8:30 in the morning or maybe riding your mountain bike on the trails at Durango or spending time with your am I in your loved ones it was up to me I'd be on the high-water the Animas river right now but we are all here for a better reason Nest increase our love and knowledge of education and to be well be well you may ask what that means for me is doing what you love and loving what you do taking care of myself so I can pass that care and love onto students and the people around me when I was asked to get this talk on cultivating a calling I thought to myself of all the great reasons why I teach kids are fun PE is Fun the feeling I get when receiving catalyst tattoos from parents students and athletes the expression on his child's face when they learn something new Summers off holidays off and let's not forget about the incredible pay but most of all it feels good in my heart but then I thought a little bit longer what really cultivated the calling for me is a teacher moving to Durango in 2006 enrich my life in the outdoors and turn my career as a teacher and Coach I continued to teach swim lessons throughout my college career at top snowboarding at Purgatory for the last nine winners I've coached Middle School volleyball basketball and football Youth Lacrosse for 2 years High School lacrosse for The Last 5 Years in 2008 I became a raft guide on the Animas River the past five Summers I've taught guys after graduating Fort Lewis College with a K-12 physical education degree I substituted for about a year-and-a-half and I just finished up my third year teaching last two of Bennett Ignacio teaching PE trying to get back to you. Let me get back to that story of what really cultivate the calling for me January 14th 2003 scrawny 14 year old boy walks into the doctor's office with his mother this boy was me we're looking for answers the symptoms I had been experiencing constant urination weight loss weight I didn't have to lose unquenchable thirst lethargic blurred vision and Elsa personality patiently waiting in the exam room we were desperate for an answer after a urine test and a blood glucose test the doctor was quite certain he had found the reason the doctor walked in and said ketones in your blood sugar is 550 you should be between a 70 and a 130 range and the ketones in your urine indicates ketoacidosis we strongly believe you have diabetes my first thought was my first thought was we hold on I thought that people got diabetes I just lost 25 lb since my last checkup how could this happen to me I am healthy my mom started crying and so did I but I didn't know why I knew my life was going to take a drastic turn but had no idea what I was in for they contacted the Barbara Davis Center for juvenile diabetes and told us we are on that we would be on our way then left the doctor's office in Aurora and drove straight there a dad met us there we are greeted by a friendly desk employee they put us into a waiting room after taking my vitals another urine test and then another blue Coast blood glucose test and  those finger Pricks hurt the cheerful PA walked in and said don't worry you're about to be also much better since you're up a small vial of insulin in a syringe I gave you my first shot of insulin let's just started teaching us about to disease all live with for the rest of my life after about she was right I felt like a new person my parents said I look like a new boy for the next week we went to the Barbara Davis Center and learn all about type 1 diabetes nutrition injections blood glucose testing high and low blood sugars the dues in the dumps this was such a profound experience for me a teenager that knew everything little did I know how vulnerable I really was I learned a lot about my body I learn to understand my feelings about having the disease taking responsibility for my actions testing my blood sugar 3 to 5 times a day taking 3 to 5 insulin shots a day watching what I eat and increase my overall awareness of my health this was a major challenge for me and my family I was challenged physically right off the bat injections those  finger Pricks and the way low and high blood sugars made me feel I was challenged emotionally with the reason with a question of why me and a constant stress of the disease socially it was hard to just be a teenager the changing my life didn't happen overnight though but after the next few years after my diagnosis I had one finally started maturing into a young adult and two realized the best thing to do was the best decision was to take action into my own hands I've never use diabetes as an excuse not to do something but more so as motivation to do whatever it takes in my life to make me happy for the past 15 years at manage my diabetes by staying positive and focusing and making a point that it's in my control something are constantly encourage my students to have control of their life when I tell people I'm a PE teacher the reaction is always must be the best job ever you play dodgeball with your kids my reaction is all of them jobs with the best job ever rap guy Tang teaching snowboarding coaching but teaching PE is the most important to me teaching PE is more than just teaching playing. games like dodgeball in fact the first physical education Colorado state standard is the only one that mentions physical activity okay it the first one is moving competence in understanding which is teaching students a wide variety movements skills like throwing catching kicking jogging skipping and a wide variety of exercises the other ones are physical and personal Wellness social and emotional Wellness prevention and risk many of the things that diabetes have taught me of course I love to teach a different games movements physical skills and exercises but at the end of the day it's more than playing games like dodgeball what's most important to me that students know how to treat each other with respect fairness and care how did how to manage themselves with responsibility integrity and morality and believing in them that they turn the power to take control of their life it's a bee well on their own this encompasses all students that walk into my gym weather is little little John I can barely dribble basketball and walk at the same time play me that can do cartwheels across the entire gym and make a free throw as a first grader but we can make these kids understand that they have the power to take control of their life that they will come out on top to help them to get to that power up that position of power in their life I'm not saying it's all give them diabetes but by giving them challenges and helping them work through that is how we do it think I just asked School it's not all about content though it's about working through that content and helping them but they can be and feel successful somewhere along the lines School Take Me Away. Programs and recesses the reasons are beyond me that's a whole nother can of worms I'm not going to get into right now pay is not only a great place to teach students control their body in a motion Studies have shown that direct correlation between exercise and increase test scores decrease in this behavior and increase in attendance the 8th District served by the San Juan BOCES were awarded that take TennCare this year you learn about that more today the three components are extra recess equipment to give students a higher quality of unstructured playtime second component is a physical activity leaders which help students be physically active in the classroom as well as a box of equipment to do so the third component or the key rose with that 100 Mile Club to help everyone run outside this year for the Cure out Ignacio Elementary School 100 Mile Club wouldn't be 3 days a week at 7:15 in the morning they would check in they would run walk jog as many laps as they could and at the end we are attractive progress we would have graphs in the school so everyone can see all teachers parents students were welcomed what to reach 25 miles you got an awesome one-of-a-kind Hundred Mile Club t-shirt and you got a sweet pencil kids love pencils Alan at 75 miles you got a bracelet and if you were so committed that you reached a hundred miles you got a gold medal web for students at Ignacio Elementary School make the hundred mile marker art completed 159 Mi a first grader there was another first grader and her grandmother that came nearly every single day and at the end they can play a hundred miles on the final day I'll call her Danielle now at First Sight you may not think Danielle and her granddaughter or Danielle and her grandmother had the capability of completing such a but they did towards the end of the they were showing up before I was and their commitment was clear at the end I asked Daniels grandmother what she thought of the program and how has it affected her and her granddaughter and she said Danielle feels a lot better about herself she feels more focused in school and it's been really good for her weight loss as for myself my blood sugars have been lower and I feel like I have more energy throughout the day after we walk thank you mr. Greg Hunter we cannot wait for next year this is great for me to see the success of the program and to hear direct feedback from the participants next year we have a few tweaks to make happen and we hope to have more numbers like Danielle and her grandmother I want students to take care of themselves physically mentally socially and emotionally everyone I come in contact for that matter no matter what I'm doing I want people to be well but it's up to you to make the move it's a conscious choice take care of yourself so you can take care of others teaching the whole child to be so it's not just my calling it's all of yours teach yourself and your students to be well thank you

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