Episode 164: Emily Jones & Ben Schwamberger

For the second year in a row, Sean is joined by guests from our recruitment and retention task force to discuss For the Love of Health and Physical Education (HPE) Week!

Emily Jones is a Professor of Physical Education

Teacher Education, in the School of Kinesiology and Recreation at Illinois

State University. She is the current chair of the SHAPE America Recruitment and

Retention Task Force and serves at the state level as the chair of the IAHPERD

Higher Education Committee. At Illinois State she is program director for the

undergraduate PE teacher education and coordinates the fully online master’s in

Physical Education Pedagogy sequence at ISU. Dr. Jones conducts research

related to recruitment into the field of physical education including the need

to increase the diversity of those entering the teaching force. She also

conducts research related to school- and community-based physical activity

programs and initiatives that enhance health and wellness. 

Ben Schwamberger is an Associate Professor of Health and

Physical Education, in the Human Performance Department at Minnesota State

University, Mankato (MSU, Mankato). He currently serves on the SHAPE America

Professional Preparation Council as well as the Recruitment and Retention Task

Force and is an active member of his state association MNSHAPE. At MSU, Mankato

he is the undergraduate program coordinator for the Health and Physical

Education program. Dr. Schwamberger’s research interests relate to physical

education and physical activity of homeschool students. Prior to his position

in higher education, Dr. Schwamberger was an elementary and high school

physical educator and taught within the United States as well as abroad.