Sentences with phrase «daily school recess»

«Daily School Recess Leads to Better Classroom Behavior.»

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Recess or Physical Activity Breaks: The Wellness Policy Guidelines (2010) approved by the State Board of Education recommends elementary schools provide at least 20 minutes of supervised recess daily, preferably outRecess or Physical Activity Breaks: The Wellness Policy Guidelines (2010) approved by the State Board of Education recommends elementary schools provide at least 20 minutes of supervised recess daily, preferably outrecess daily, preferably outdoors.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Last year, research involving thousands of elementary school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as reported by teachers.

The Healthy Schools Program encourages elementary schools to offer 20 minutes of daily recess and provides tools, resources and training to help you plan and implement a successful recess stSchools Program encourages elementary schools to offer 20 minutes of daily recess and provides tools, resources and training to help you plan and implement a successful recess stschools to offer 20 minutes of daily recess and provides tools, resources and training to help you plan and implement a successful recess strategy.

With students remaining in their home schools, they are able to participate in daily schoolwide routines and events (e.g., lunch, recess, assemblies, extracurricular activities) as well as benefit from peer interaction with the general school population, and yet they receive the individualized interventions they require to succeed academically, socially, and behaviorally.

«We know that daily recess is in the best interest of all elementary schools children and that by - and - large, local control on this issue just isn't working.»

Schools with a majority of Caucasian students were more likely than all other racial / ethnic groups to have daily recess.

Education Week's Rethinking Recess Schools have sometimes trimmed recess to make more time for instruction, or withheld the daily break as punishment for misbehRecess Schools have sometimes trimmed recess to make more time for instruction, or withheld the daily break as punishment for misbehrecess to make more time for instruction, or withheld the daily break as punishment for misbehavior.