Articles Tagged: Elementary School

By Alex Frost

Read Time: 5 minutes

Student-Led Conferences Should Be Available at All Schools

Student-led conferences can be a powerful way to get kids involved with their own school experience. Here's how to make them work at your school.
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By Jonathan Hodge

Read Time: 6 minutes

P.E. Class Needs Less Structure and More Free Play

P.E. class doesn't have to be regimented and structured. Learn how this P.E. teacher used free play to transform his classes.
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By Angela Barton

Read Time: 5 minutes

Teachers Are Quitting, Students Are Crying, and Parents Are Frustrated—Welcome to Kindergarten

Kindergarten teachers are seeing the joy of kindergarten being zapped by standards-based curriculum that doesn't include free play. Let's fight back.
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By Holly

Read Time: 4 minutes

School Recess Keeps Shrinking, and Our Kids Deserve Better 

Learn about LiiNK, the school recess program that is reshaping the way some schools view recess and unstructured play for the better.
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By Sara

Read Time: 4 minutes

It’s Not Enough to Teach Kids How to Be Independent If We Don’t Let Them Put it into Practice 

Yes, we can teach our kids how to be independent. But then we have to actually step back and let them put it into practice.
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By Holly

Read Time: 7 minutes

 I Want to Let My Son Walk to School with Friends, But There’s a Problem

What do you do when you want to let your child walk to school with their friends, but another mom keeps following them? See what this mom did.
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By Kate Sundquist

Read Time: 6 minutes

Movement Breaks Should Not Be a Substitute for Recess

This mom has seen recess shrink at her son's school, and she believes movements breaks should never be a substitution for recess.
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By Tim

Read Time: 7 minutes

250+ Fun Activities For Kids To Do Instead of Homework

I'm an elementary school teacher in Southern California. For 25 years, I have to admit that I was staunchly pro-homework, until one day I had a revelation. Here's why I...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

A Let Grow Project Success Story: Patchogue-Medford Schools

Michael Hynes, superintendent of Patchogue-Medford Schools in Long Island, believes in the Let Grow Project. All seven elementary schools in his district participate, with incredible results. Soon, the middle schools...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 2 minutes

Why A No Rules Recess Might Be Just What Your School Needs

A New Zealand school made headlines a few years back when it introduced a No Rules Recess policy. They did away with all the don'ts at recess (except for the...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Professors Reveal Secret to Succeeding at Harvard

Erika and Nicholas Christakis have noticed a troubling trend: students don't know how to play anymore. As they noted in an article for CNN, they constantly see their students struggling...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 2 minutes

When Did We Stop Letting Kids Walk to School On Their Own?

Ask today's grandparents how they got to school, and nearly all of them will tell you, "I walked." But by the time current parents were growing up, that number had...
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