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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 [...]
The Importance of Student Posture in Health and Learning
Look around your classroom at the types of desks your students sit in. Are they too big or too small? Are they confining? Do they clutter the space? Are they [...]
Engaging Peers to Bring Physical Activity to the Classroom
Most classroom teachers don’t know the research surrounding how activity, such as Brain Energizers, can increase student achievement, improve behavior, and improve focus. I feel it’s our job to teach [...]
Kicking Off 2020
Moving Minds was founded in 2015 to bridge the gap in the niche of active classrooms, flexible seating, kinesthetic learning—whatever you’d like to call it. And, as we kick off [...]
Is Student Health a Teacher’s Responsibility?
Recent reports show that 1 out of 5 adolescents are now prediabetic, meaning they have high blood sugar levels, but not quite high enough to be diagnosed as having type [...]
