Come learn how to incorporate movement for enhanced learning, memory, improved test scores, and better classroom management. This session will focus more on Pair/Share & small group work as well as sharing strategies, challenges, barriers, and more so that educators are well informed with strategies to incorporate movement into their classrooms in the Fall and beyond. Attendees will benefit from the SMART goals workshop geared for individual movement and health outcomes so that they can pair their movement/exercise routines with their nutrition/meal planning to stay healthy and fit this upcoming school year! Principles of Wellness and Mindfulness will be shared with attendees in this data-driven and science-based approach to mindfulness. Breathing & relaxation techniques as well as connecting the nutrition and movement principles will be reviewed/introduced in this session as attendees learn how to incorporate mindfulness and wellness practices into their classrooms and individual lives. Studies and research show that having a mindfulness practice in your life dramatically reduces symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression, weight gain, inflammation, and many other measurable health markers. This session is geared not only toward staff health, but the health and well-being of our students as well. Additionally, this session will include how best to utilize the new wellness centers and specialists present in many of the schools in CVUSD for the 2022/23 school year and beyond.
