EmpowHer PE Curriculum
EmpowHer PE | 12-Week Strength & Movement Curriculum
EmpowHer PE is a 12-week strength and movement curriculum designed specifically for girls in 8th–12th grade.
Created for the PE classroom, EmpowHer PE gives teachers a structured, progressive way to introduce strength training while helping girls develop the knowledge, confidence, and skills they need to feel capable in the weight room—and beyond it.
The curriculum goes beyond simply giving students workouts to complete. Throughout the 12 weeks, students learn how to train, why they're training, and how factors like recovery, energy, and individual differences can influence how training feels from day to day.
Each 50-minute class is intentionally structured to make implementation realistic for PE teachers while allowing students to progressively build strength, movement competency, and confidence.
Inside the curriculum:
- 12 weeks of progressive programming
- 60 ready-to-teach PE classes across 12 weeks
- Each class is designed for a 50-minute class period.
- Strength, power, movement, conditioning, and recovery-focused training
- Weekly teaching focuses and coaching points
- Exercise demonstrations and teacher cues
- RPE and RIR education
- Progressive overload instruction
- Recovery, hydration, nutrition, sleep, and body-awareness education
- Modifications and progressions to support different ability and experience levels
- Student reflection and self-assessment opportunities
- Alignment with SHAPE America National PE Standards and Montana PE Standards for grades 8–12
- A supportive approach that emphasizes strength, capability, performance, and lifelong movement—not appearance
EmpowHer PE was designed to take the guesswork out of building a strength-training unit while still giving teachers the flexibility to meet the needs of their individual students, classes, and facilities.
The goal isn't simply to teach girls how to exercise. It's to give them the foundation to walk into a gym, weight room, or active lifestyle with the knowledge and confidence to know what they're doing, why they're doing it, and that they belong there.
Physical Curriculum: Your purchase includes one professionally printed and bound copy of the complete 12-week EmpowHer PE curriculum.