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Importance of Physical Activity While Working from Home
Working from home presents many challenges for teachers and parents. We are in unchartered waters of trying to continue to work while helping our kids continue to learn and complete [...]
Daily Brain Breaks You Can Do At Home – Week 2
Monday Last week we went over some beginner yoga movements such as the cat pose and the upward dog pose. Multiple research studies have demonstrated positive outcomes of yoga on [...]
Daily Brain Breaks You Can Do At Home – Week 1
Monday Start with learning and teaching some beginner yoga poses. Here are a few to start with: Cat and Cow Pose • Begin on hands and knees --Hands beneath shoulders [...]
SPARK Offers Free At-Home Resources
SPARK is offering support for teachers and parents while they are teaching students and children from home. SPARKfamily Members can access the complete Digital Curriculum with digital files of all [...]
5 Steps to Facilitate Our Students’ Growth During Challenging Times
Well, here we are. It is 8:30am on a Wednesday morning and I am sitting in my home “office” looking out a window listening to my kids racing through our [...]
Social Distancing and Physical Activity: How to Keep Students Active at Home
COVID-19. Social distancing. Outbreak. R-naught. These buzzwords and phrases are new to all and scary to many in 2020. “Flatten the curve” is another phrase that you might be familiar [...]
3 Simple Ways to Measure Activity Break Results
You may have tried the whole “activity break” thing and didn’t feel like it was successful, or that students acted crazier after their break than they did before. In many [...]
How to Measure Results and Show the Impact of a Kinesthetic Classroom
Today, I am a brand manager. But, not so long ago, I worked in an education space. I think I still speak the language. I understand what drives change. Not [...]
SaddlED – An Active Desk Chair Students Love!
I have wanted to create an active classroom for my health students for YEARS! Finally, I can make this dream a reality and included a SaddlED Active Desk Chair. My [...]