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• Illinois Learning Standards for Physical Development and Health - Goals and Performance Indicators
• Enhanced Physical Education Task Force (provided recommendations on IL Learning Standards for Physical Development and Health)
• Sample SLD/PERA standards assessments​
  
• IL Physical Fitness Assessments and Data Reporting Requirements​
  
• ​Stakeholder and Expert Task Force on Physical Education
  
• Part 1, Section 1.425​
  
• Questions & Answers (Q&A)
  
• Q&A on Physical Fitness Assessment and Data Reporting Requirements​
• Q&A on Fitness Testing for Students with Disabilities (Brockport Physical Fitness Test)
• Webinars
  
• Fitness Assessments in Illinois - Tools, Resources, and Information You Need (will be prompted to register)
• Enhancing P.E. in Illinois: Updates, Next Steps and a Success Story! – 9/19/17
• Fitness Testing Requirements Chart
  
• Sample Language to notify parents of physical fitness assessment requirements
  
• IL Physical Fitness Assessment Data Collection Template
  NOTE: You will need to click ENABLEEDITING before being able to enter data.
  
• ​Healthy Fitness Zone/Goal Setting Chart - PACER (15 M)
  
• Healthy Fitness Zone/Goal Setting Chart - PACER (20 M)
  
• ​Healthy Fitness Zone Standards Chart​ - ALL OTHER REQUIRED ASSESSMENTS
• User Guide for Entering Student Health/Physical Fitness Data into IWAS​ (The system will be released in IWAS mid-April.)
• Enhance P.E. Fact Sheet ​
• Free Resources for Fitnessgram
• Statewide Physical Fitness Assessment Data
  • Background & Interpretation
  • School Year 2016-17 Data

In order to make rapid and significant progress toward implementing enhanced P.E. programs and improved physical activity and wellness in Illinois schools, the Illinois State Board of Education, the Illinois Department of Public Health, and the Illinois Public Health Institute produced this Strategic Plan, with input from the Enhanced P.E. Task Force. This plan identifies three partners as most able to effect change and make enhanced P.E. in all Illinois schools a reality: school boards, superintendents, and principals. The Strategic Plan identifies ways that each of these three partners can be leaders in this effort, as well as corresponding community-level implementation strategies. This Enhanced Physical Education (P.E.) Strategic Plan provides a high-level roadmap for implementing the vision that all Illinois K-12 students will participate in daily, high-quality physical education.

On August 27, 2012, the Senate passed Public Act 97-1102 that creates the Enhance Physical Education Task Force (EPETF). The purpose of this Task Force is to promote and recommend enhanced physical education programs that can be integrated with a broader wellness strategy and health curriculum in elementary and secondary schools in this state, including educating and promoting leadership on enhanced physical education among school district and school district officials; developing and utilizing metrics to assess the impact of enhanced physical education; promoting training and professional development in enhanced physical education for teachers and other school and community stakeholders; identifying and seeking local, State, and national resources to support enhanced physical education; and such other strategies as may be identified by the Task Force. ​​

In August, 2013, the Task Force submitted its recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on Goals 19-24 of the Illinois Learning Standards for Physical Development and Health. The Task Force focused on updating the standards based on research in neuroscience that impacts the relationship between physical activity and learning.

For further information on members and meetings, see Quick Links.

On August 4, 2014, Public Act 98-0859 created the Stakeholder and Expert Task Force on Physical Education. The purpose of this Task Force was to submit recommendations from which ISBE will adopt rules for implementation of physical fitness assessments and collect and report aggregate fitness information. Those recommendations were submitted on April 1, 2015. ​​