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How Important Is Exercise at Schools?

November 11, 2011 by Eric Jensen

The brain is involved in everything we do at school. To ignore it is irresponsible.

Promoting Physical Activity and Health in Schools

November 10, 2011 by ASCD Whole Child Bloggers

Schools are the only context where we can ensure every child is exposed to a permissive environment which works with children's natural desire to play and move, and that provides for the possibility of a coordinated sequentially developed health education.

How to Create Independent Thinkers

November 09, 2011 by

Although we can't make our students think, we can teach them how to be skillful, creative, and strategic in their thinking

• The Importance of Movement

  November 08, 2011 by ASCD Whole Child Bloggers

  As a school system we are in jeopardy of exposing our students to more stress because we are not offering them the important breaks that they need. Everyone needs time away from their desk in order to take a brain and body break from work.