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How Teachers Should Respond to Bullying

How Teachers Should Respond to School Bullying Setting the stage for responding to bullying. Download Article How to Respond to Bullying..... First, it is important to acknowledge that students [...]

By |December 6th, 2012|Categories: Bullying, Featured Articles, featured posts|Tags: , |

Bullying & Harassment : What Schools Can Do

The Department of Education and U.S. Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, have taken an unprecedented step forward on the issue of School Safety and specifically, on bullying and discriminatory harassment. The Department of Education issued guidance [...]

Bullying Prevention: Is Empathy the Key?

Is Empathy the key to conquering bullying? by Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer, The Recess Doctor   As I observed my class the first week of school, one child stood out. The incident happened on the third [...]

Nutrition in Schools – Childhood Obesity

There is a public health crisis facing the United States and many countries around the world. Unlike so many public health crises resulting in disease, it can't be cured by an inoculation. The disease has [...]

Ten Tips to Getting Your School Grant Funded

Ten Tips for Getting Your School Grant Funded by Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer aka The Recess Doctor Ten Tips for Getting Your School Grant Funded I first [...]

Healthy Food, Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds

Childhood obesity has taken center stage as children’s #1  health problem. Senators and Congressmen are joining forces and passing legislation for mandatory physical education and many states are reinstating recess. Pediatricians are attempting to advise [...]

School Gardens: Schools Teaching Organic Gardening

Schools Teaching Organic Gardening In this article, we will look into the movement that is transforming the nation’s schools, the “Local Food Movement” via school gardens. Americans are facing epidemic levels of childhood onset of [...]

10 Tips for Healthy School Lunches

Ideas for  Healthy School Lunches

1. Serve a Hot Meal Schools across the country are beginning to prepare hot meals on site making available healthier choices thus eliminating or reducing fried [...]

By |December 6th, 2012|Categories: Featured Articles|Tags: , , |

Shortening the School Year Spreads

An alarming educational trend is spreading like wildfire across the nation due to our economic situation. More troubling is the fact that no one is talking about the effect of a shortened school year for [...]

By |December 6th, 2012|Categories: Featured Articles, Schools|Tags: , , |

Playground Liability: Accident or Injury

Playground Liability: Accident or Injury by Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer, The Recess Doctor By Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer Dr. Bossenmeyer is an expert witness on playground injury and playground supervision [...]

Head Start Body Start in Body Building?

Sounds like a tiny tot gym for aspiring World Body Builders like California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, but instead it is a new federal program aimed at giving preschoolers a head start on future healthy behaviors and [...]

By |December 6th, 2012|Categories: Featured Articles, Play|Tags: , |

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