Heart Tech Plus understands the importance of heart rate technology and the amount of reliable and objective data it can produce. This valuable data can help you improve your practice and can ultimately facilitate the learning process for you and your students. Implementing heart rate technology helps your students understand the “why” behind exercise and allows for goal setting and independent learning to happen. Heart rate technology can help create lifelong movers which can help combat the obesity crisis in America. With the data that the Heart Tech Plus system produces, users are able to effectively reflect on their workouts so they can improve their performance over time.
Heart Tech Plus understands that purchasing heart rate technology can be an investment and can be overwhelming. We are firm believers that implementing heart rate technology can benefit both the teacher and the student. However, we understand that finding funds can be difficult. Heart Tech Plus is always here to help you with this process so you can improve your program(s). Please see below for effective ideas and ways to obtain funding.
Action Steps
This nonprofit typically has several grants that you can apply for throughout the year.
Sign up to become an Active Schools Champion (free) so you can receive monthly resource bulletins with grant opportunities.
Create a project for heart rate monitors and get it funded.
Attend monthly PTA meetings and ask to present on the value of heart rate technology. You can then try and request funds.
SHAPE America states that this new federal education legislation provides increased access to funds for health and PE programs (including professional development) and allows states and school districts to set their own priorities for funding and accountability.
Schools can apply for up to $4,000 per year to jump-start healthy school changes
SHAPE America states that as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), Congress set aside approximately $13.2 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER Fund).