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Jacqueline Goodway

Jacqueline Goodway
  • Red Cedar Distinguished Professor
  • Department of Kinesiology

Bio

Jackie Goodway is professor and associate chair of Kinesiology at Michigan State University. She is also a Red Cedar Distinguished Professor. Her translational research addresses health inequities in vulnerable and minoritized communities.

She has three interrelated lines of research. The first examines developmental delays in the motor development of young children from vulnerable communities. Her primary scholarship implements and evaluates her evidenced-based SKIP physical activity and motor skill program that partners with schools and families to promote positive developmental trajectories of physical activity and motor development in young children. SKIP has been implemented in over 10 countries and is a model for early years physical literacy.

Additionally, Goodway investigates the role motor competence plays in supporting physical activity behaviors and has co-developed one of the most cited models in motor development.