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The Lund Report
By: Christen McCurdy
April 17, 2013
In-school coaches, training help reduce the discipline problems associated with recess – which pediatricians say is critical to healthy development, but can also be the crucible of conflicts between kids …
The only thing that truly makes us safer is each other. Celebrating National High Five Day.
Statesman Journal
By Debbie Kitchin
March 22, 2013
Recent actions and debates on school bullying across the state have focused on reporting and on holding schools and individuals accountable for not doing enough to protect students. But how…
Fox 13 News- Salt Lake City
Big Budah
March 20, 2013
Stansbury Elementary School was selected as FOX 13′s Cool School of the Week for March 20. http://fox13now.com/2013/03/20/cool-school-creative-conflict-resolution-at-stansbury-elem/
March 11, 2013
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign encourages schools to provide students with 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
Deseret News
By Whitney Evans
March 5, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — Dressed in a black suit and a light blue, button-up shirt with cufflinks, Salt Lake City Councilman Charlie Luke high-fived community members during a rousing game…
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Nicole Wallace
February 24, 2013
Playworks, a nonprofit in Oakland, Calif., thinks that Hula Hoops and relay races just might hold the key to better academic performance for elementary-school students. The organization seeks to provide…
February 14, 2013
It always feels a little risky to talk about love in the public domain. I mean, we’re already advocating for recess, how far are we going to take things? But…
The Boston Globe
By Yvonne Abraham
February 10, 2013
Occasionally, the solutions to some of education’s most -bedeviling problems are startlingly simple. Here is one of them, on a playground at the Mather Elementary School in Dorchester on a…