Physical Education Specialist Wins National Textbook Award - April 10, 2008

The first Textbook Excellence Award (“Texty”) ever to be won by a University of Texas at Austin faculty member went to Dr. Dolly Lambdin this year for her work on the textbook Fitness for Life: Middle School. Lambdin is a senior lecturer in the College of Education’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Education.

The Text and Academic Authors Association annually recognizes a select few elementary, middle school, high school and university textbooks as representing excellence in content, presentation, appeal and “teachability.”

Lambdin co-authored “Fitness for Life: Middle School” with Arizona State University professor emeritus Charles B. Corbin and Guy Le Masurier, a physical education professor at Malaspina University-College in Vancouver. Her extensive experience in physical education includes 16 years of teaching elementary and middle school level classes at public and private schools as well as 31 years of preparing future teachers at the university level. She has supervised over 100 future teachers.

Lambdin has served as president of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education and on the writing teams for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in Physical Education, the national and state Standards for Physical Education Beginning Teachers and the National Association for Sports and Physical Education’s various “Appropriate Practices” guidelines. In addition to “Fitness for Life: Middle School,” Lambdin is co-author of “Putting Research to Work in Elementary Physical Education.”

The Texty Award will be presented to Lambdin at the annual Text and Academic Authors Association conference in June.

—Kay Randall, University Communications, 512-232-3910