"My AAHPERD journals and conference experiences all feed me with ideas and knowledge to grow in my profession. This is why I continue to be a member."

Pat Rumbaugh Physical Education Teacher, Coach and AAHPERD Member

The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), a four-color, professional magazine published nine times a year, is the AAHPERD journal targeting professionals in four of the five national associations of AAHPERD. With a circulation of 15,000, JOPERD is an authoritative source for educators in sport, physical education, recreation and dance in all settings. JOPERD’s focus is on the professional information needed to assist clients and students in learning motor skills, improving fitness, pursuing physical activity and sport interests, and generally improving quality of life. Its readers are consumers who influence the purchases made by schools, sport and dance programs, as well as parents and students for equipment and supplies related to physical activity. JOPERD features articles on ideas and concepts related to teaching methods, curriculum, coaching, sport management, fitness, recreation and dance. Regular columns offer teaching tips, legal advice, technology updates, and viewpoints about the professions. The Convention issue (published in March) and the Back to School issue (published in August) provide special opportunities for advertisers.

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The American Journal of Health Education (AJHE) is a journal published bi-monthly and circulated to nearly 7,000. AJHE is the authoritative source for schools, community and public health professionals. These professionals are consumers who influence the purchases made by individuals for books and supplies. Since 1969, AJHE has served as the profession’s voice and source of information, keeping educators up-to-date on issues, research, trends, teaching methods and curriculum developments in health education. The result is a first-class periodical that provides a strong medium for your advertising outreach.

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Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators is what you want when you’re looking for a way to reach the physical educator, coach, or athletic administrator. Produced by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), the largest association of AAHPERD, Strategies is published six times a year. Its articles address the everyday needs of physical and sport educators in the gymnasium or on the athletic field, and its 7,000 readers make up a highly focused audience of teachers, coaches, and administrators in search of ideas that can be put to use immediately. Articles in the journal are written in a brief, easy-to-read, ready-to-use format, focusing on specific activities, and often include equipment lists and resources. Strategies readers are also directly in line to specify equipment, product and publication purchases for their schools/districts.

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The most enduring journal in the field of kinesiology, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES) has been offering the latest research in the art and science of human movement studies since 1930. RQES is an informative, educational reference documenting research across disciplines in the exercise and sport sciences. Researchers, educators and practitioners receive this perfect-bound, soft-cover journal four times a year (plus an additional issue containing abstracts of research presented by the Research Consortium program at the AAHPERD national convention). RQES is published in black text with a two-color cover and circulated to 6,000. It is an indispensable and valuable information source for researchers in such areas as biomechanics, epidemiology, measurement, motor control, pedagogy, physiology, sport psychology, and sociology.

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UpdatePLUS is a full-color trade magazine published six times a year. It is designed to offer pertinent information of interest to AAHPERD members about personal and professional topics. Information from around AAHPERD, its national associations, and districts, as well as Student News and Job Exchange are included. The Research Consortium’s publication, Physical Activity Today, now appears in each issue of UpdatePLUS.

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