Successful Healthy Children blog posts for teachers, educators, and other educational paraprofessionals.
The Global Recess Alliance shares a video by Dr. Lauren McNamara, showcasing The Recess Project Canada at two schools. The video presents students as primary stakeholders, highlighting innovative ways to transform recess and demonstrating the importance of community engagement in educational initiatives.
Read our inaugural newsletter with updates on school wellness, recess, special education and where to catch us live!
So proud of fellow founders of the Global Recess Alliance, Pasi Sahlberg and William Doyle for their latest work! When schools reopen, we should not ask […]
Back in 2007, during my coursework for my PhD, I had the great privilege of learning with/from Dr. Miriam Raider-Roth at the […]
After our work published in 2010, Dr. Murray shared our findings with the American Academy of Pediatrics. He proposed that our work […]
Today, I read Dina Strasser’s article, Creating Classrooms That Teach the Whole Kid about creating collaborative classrooms. She writes that teaching is […]
Recess is the time during the school day when children can play. It is as essential to the school—to the child—as the […]
As part of the research my colleague Dr. Dale B. Fink and I are doing, we surveyed and interviewed teachers about their perspectives on recess. 100% of the teachers indicated at least one benefit of recess, but many still take it away.
My colleague Dale Borman Fink, PhD, interview children about what they think when teachers take away recess, why they think teachers do […]
Read about the 2017-2018 Student Health Council Members! CCS Newsletter Formatted 2018 7th graders Amari, Joseph and Micah 8th graders Douglas, Eriana, […]
