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“Sharpen” Up for Your School Year

“Sharpen” Up for Your School Year

It is back-to-school season! Hopefully you’ve had an opportunity to relax and enjoy a much-needed and deserved break! As the first day of school draws near for many of us, it is important to ensure that you are taking care of yourself both mentally and physically in order to be at your best for the [...]

By Heather Erwin|2022-08-03T21:55:10+00:00August 7th, 2019|Categories: Teaching|0 Comments

Secondary Movement Breaks

Secondary Movement Breaks

Movement is for Adolescents Too! It’s important not to leave out the population who may need activity the most—adolescents. While movement breaks in elementary school have been embraced, they are not quite a “staple” at the secondary level. If you are a secondary teacher, you may cringe at the thought of leading a group of [...]

By Heather Erwin|2023-06-21T15:52:40+00:00June 10th, 2019|Categories: Active and Flexible Seating, Teaching|Tags: Active Classroom Startegies, active learning strategy, Activity ideas, ed tech, recess, teaching|0 Comments

Moving in the Classroom—What Students Say!

Moving in the Classroom—What Students Say!

When it comes to understanding teachers’ perceptions of movement in the classroom, the research is clear. Teachers understand the value of physical activity for kids and are generally supportive of creating more active classrooms for their students (McMullen, Martin, Jones, & Murtagh, 2016; Michael et al., 2019). Though, this is not surprising given the well [...]

By Jaimie McMullen|2019-05-21T17:49:24+00:00April 30th, 2019|Categories: Teaching|0 Comments

Using Classroom Physical Activity to Help Students with Mental Health and Anxiety

Using Classroom Physical Activity to Help Students with Mental Health and Anxiety

You hear tear-jerking stories of your students’ home lives all the time. One is being raised by grandparents who are barely healthy enough to walk because they have no health insurance. Another slept on the floor with her four younger siblings last night. Two had no dinner last night, so their last full, healthy meal [...]

By Heather Erwin|2022-08-04T20:31:54+00:00April 19th, 2019|Categories: Classroom Activities, Teaching|0 Comments

How Classroom Activity Improves Behavior and Test Scores

How Classroom Activity Improves Behavior and Test Scores

The first question I am asked when I present information on active seating and active classrooms is: Does it work? After teaching in a kinesthetic classroom and working at a school with four active classrooms, the answer is yes. In our school, it has shown to improve student behavior, grades, and test scores while keeping kids moving and happy.

By David Wilkie|2019-10-21T18:37:29+00:00February 5th, 2019|Categories: Classroom Activities, Teaching|0 Comments

Let’s Reverse Our Thinking On Classroom Activity

Let’s Reverse Our Thinking On Classroom Activity

Let’s reverse our thinking. Instead of stressing about providing more, more, more for your students, how about if we think about it from a more straightforward approach? What if our goal is to have them sit still less?

By Heather Erwin|2023-06-21T14:51:21+00:00December 18th, 2018|Categories: Active Classroom Management, Classroom Activities, Teaching|0 Comments

Activities to Help Build Relationships in the Classroom

Activities to Help Build Relationships in the Classroom

Starting off the school year with cooperative activities is an excellent way to have students learn about each other and teach them how to work well together and for each other. This blog includes a few classroom activity ideas to get your student's wiggles out and ideas to build teacher student relationships.

By Heather Erwin|2022-08-04T20:26:13+00:00September 12th, 2018|Categories: Teaching|0 Comments

Including Students in Physical Activity Promotion

Including Students in Physical Activity Promotion

It is often said that schools should be a place to teach respect and responsibility to students (Lickert, 1991). While young children are strongly influenced by teachers, as they age, peers become more important especially when it comes to classroom physical activity and motivation (Salvy et al., 2009). When we incorporate the notion of friends [...]

By Heather Erwin|2020-10-16T16:55:41+00:00February 13th, 2018|Categories: Classroom Activities, Teaching|0 Comments