Nexus Schedule
Nexus Presenters
	Jackie Allen, ASCA Sara Armstrong Harriet Arnold & Laura Frey Connie Blakemore Harold Bloomfield Jonathan Cohen Robert Cooper Bruce Cryer J-P DuPreez Joshua Freedman Brian Friedlander & Steven Tobias Anne Harrison-Clark & Henry Swan Jan Hutchins Anabel Jensen Angelica Malpica Howard Martin Ann McCormick Karen McCown George McCown Lea Misan Debra Niehoff Esther Orioli Clarence Penn Candace Pert Barbara Porro Alice Ray Peter Salovey Ayman Sawaf Jeanne Segal Marty Seligman Claude Steiner Bishop William Swing & United Religions Sirah Vettese

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Connie Blakemore Ed.D. and Beth Kirkpatrick Connie is a Professor of Health and Wellness at BYU. Connie is Professor of Physical Fitness Education, Brigham Young University and researcher in instructional pedagogy for fitness and health. She has been the Director of the Physical Education Teacher Education program. Connie is the codeveloper of The HeartMonitor Bracelt, a revolutionary tool for increasing personal health.		Learn more from Blakemore and Kirkpatrick Tool / Concept you will learn from their presentation at Nexus: The connection between emotions and the body demonstrated with Heart Monitor techonlogy. Their presentations and schedule at Nexus 2000
Beth Kirkpatrick taught physical education and health for twenty years at Tilford Middle School in Vinton, Iowa. During that time, she received national recognition for her development of the physical education program "Ultra Physical Education" that stresses Lifestyle Education and the integration of technology for individualizing instruction and a noncompetitive design for all team sports. Beth has been recognized in LIFE Magazine, Newsweek, Tom Brokaw's NBC Nightly News, and CNN. Arnold Schwarzenegger's book "Arnold's Fitness for Kids" called her program the foremost middle school program in the United States. She was awarded the Emens Distinguished Professorship at Ball State, Muncie, Indiana, in 1993. She is a former chair of the Middle and Secondary Physical Education Council for NASPE, a past teacher of the year award winner of NASPE, a member of the PE/TV Board of Advisors, and is the current Director of Education and the National Spokesperson for Polar Electro Inc. Beth received the Honor Award and the Distinguished Service Award from IAHPERD. She is the co-author of "Lessons From The Heart" and the Ultra Shuffle and numerous articles. Beth Kirkpatrick has keynoted over 35 state AHPERD conventions, the European AHPERD International Convention, the ICHPER-SD Conference in Malaysia, and over 600 other conferences, conventions and workshops world wide. Beth is married to Glen Kirkpatrick and they reside in Grundy Center, Iowa, with their two sons Joshua and Jason.