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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

Edsurge

Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum.

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Learning to Breathe: Educators Use Yoga and Meditation to Reduce Burnout

Edsurge

SAN FRANCISCO — Kimberley Rose knew that breathing exercises could help kids calm down. Yet she never would have incorporated them into her classroom if she hadn’t experienced the power of these exercises herself. Honestly, when I did it, I didn’t think it would work,” Rose said about introducing breathing exercises to her class.

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New Teacher-Focused Program Launched to Drive Literacy Results for Alaska Students

eSchool News

Participants access learning via textbooks, video clips, interactive learning tasks, and webinars and have opportunities to practice skills via weekly online discussion forums, webinars, collaboration activities, self-check exercises, and homework assignments. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. Hear a teacher’s experience with cultivating agency and self-advocacy in her students to better understand what they needed from their learning environment.

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Lessons of Youth Activism, Climate Change, and Climate Justice

The Jose Vilson

So much of what passes for activism now and “granting voice” is still an exercise in power. When they don’t receive these essentials, they too get nudged into either despair or advocacy. The question should rarely be whether our students want to stay in school; it’s whether these environments push them out.

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The Power of Rubrics—Students Take Control of Their Own Learning and Achievement

EdNews Daily

Rachel’s tutor then lasered in on those areas, giving Rachel targeted exercises to address each weakness, which Rachel incorporated into her next assignment. A Tool for Self-Advocacy. Rubrics give students control over their academic progress through self-advocacy. Rubrics change that.

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