Contributed by Andrea Bossenmeyer









First Lady Michelle Obama is making more progress with the Let's Move campaign. A presentation was made at the Conference of Mayors, 470 Mayors decided to make their town or city a Let's Move City.

Want to know if your city is one of them? Let's Move Cities & Towns. I'm very pleased to see that all 3 major metropolis' that I've lived in have joined. Riverside, San Diego and Los Angel…
Tomorrow, February 1, 2011

Join the movement by leading your school in stretching, calisthenics, and/or then implementing 51 Jumping Jacks (to commemorate the year Jack LaLanne’s television show first aired - 1951)!

Morning Stretch - 8:45 am EST & 5:45 am PST.
“LaLanne Moment of Movement” in Memoriam Event (Jumping Jacks) - 2:15 pm EST & 11:15 am PST.

Following the “LaLanne Moment of Movement,”
Cate Dill will launch an unprecedented 5,246 mil…
Title: LET'S MOVE IN SCHOOL - IMPROVING HEALTH AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

Date: February 1, 2011

Time: 1 - 2 pm EST

Webinar Presenter: AAHPERD/NASPE and Strategic Partners


Peaceful Playgrounds is pleased to announce our support of Let's Move in School - a new initiative hosted by the American Alliance for Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) and its National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE).

We encourage…
For those of you who read this blog for recess information, I discovered a new website full of interesting information about recess.

It was started by a handful of parents in the Beacon City School District who have children in all four of the elementary schools in Beacon. Each parent individually had become concerned with the number of days our children spent inside a classroom rather than going outside for recess.

The website is called a plac…
The Association of Staff and Curriculum Development (ASCD) has a " Whole Child Blog" and their themes often cover physical activity and physical education and why they are critical to educating the whole child.

A recent discussion covered the topic of : Why Do We Need Physical Education in Schools?

Healthy School Communities Director Sean Slade illustrates the two sides of the debate in his blog post on the Whole Child website. Althoug…