Adventure To Fitness - Standardizing Season. Yikes!

Oh the woes of the standardized testing season! I come from a family of educators so I can feel an ounce of your exhaustion/annoyance/boredom/business absolute joy to be in this season in the semester with your kiddos. Whatever state you are in with your particular state's form of the test, you are probably weighed down in language arts and mathematics and have grown very aware of your kids who are falling over in their seats sleepy and unhappy to be practicing and then to be tested. A lot of schools have been pushing to maintain recess and Physical Education and a few have been realizing the importance of maintaining physical activity mandates as well. Smart people! Me and my team here at Headquarters (oh yeah... I went there! If you're currently a user, I'm sure you know that means that I personally know Professor Maddison ;)) did some research. You may have heard these things in passing and thought "Oh my gosh I have no time to worry about that! I have to jam all this info into my day and the kids are riled and struggling!"(Gosh... not to depict you as a yelling crazy person! Just a person with lots on their to-do list. ::smiles:: I feel you.) BUT, physical activity is tremendously helpful for brain activity. Have you ever felt sluggish, took a walk, and then felt better and quick minded?
This is why:

 I would take a student with the right brain in my classes over a student with the left brain because they will be more engaged and absorbent (great word choices, huh?). By the way, that picture was sent to us here at Adventure to Fitness in a PowerPoint that a teacher over in Arizona created to show his teachers the importance of meeting the physical activity mandates for their kids. (shameless plug: we LOVE getting those sorts of emails so that we know our teachers are spreading the word about the program and joining us in the mission!) He had a few other great things about how there is a positive correlation between physical fitness and test scores. This means that as physical fitness increases, test scores increase. This is so important for this crazy testing season all of you are going through right now. Maybe joining Mr. Marc on a 30 minute adventure could even help YOU shake off some of the anxiety or sluggishness of everything. Bring in those sneakers to class! The kids will be amazed and inspired to watch Mr/s. Teacher break it down into Mega Mode! Do it!

For interesting and enlightening research on the topic (because you have endless amounts of time on your hands, right?) check out this article. Put the title in parentheses in a search engine and it should be your first result as a PDF: Effect of Physical Education and Activity Levels on Academic Achievement in Children

Happy Testing and Healthy Kids!!! We wish you the best of luck!

As always, KEEP IT MOVING, my friends!!!