Students Applying Their Education

 For teacher Tammy Brant, witnessing legions of middle school students bored by a steady diet of basketball, floor hockey and volleyball was a clarion call for shaking up her Selma, Ind., physical education classes in a big way.

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Selma gym teacher has been named best in the Midwest by the National Association
for Sport and Physical Education

By MICHELLE KINSEY • mkinsey@muncie.gannett.com• March 9, 2011

SELMA -- The 17 eighth-graders in the Selma Middle School gym were getting a workout.

Lunges. Biceps curls. Crab walks. Scooter sprints.

In the middle of it all was Tammy Brant -- encouraging them, keeping them moving, even
showing them how it's done.

"It's how I get my workout in for the day," a very fit Brant said during a break between classes.

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