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Volume 3 | Issue 32
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Sunday, August 7, 2016
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CHANING GREEN | OXFORD CITIZEN
Coach Calhoun of the Move to Learn Initiative of Mississippi leads faculty members at Oxford Intermediate School in an exercise session in the school’s cafeteria Wednesday. OIS will be incorporating Move to Learn fitness videos into their classroom curriculum for the upcoming school year.
Move to Learn OIS adopts new initiative to get kids moving BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER
Teachers at Oxford Intermediate School met in the cafeteria Wednesday afternoon to get moving and participate in a seminar to learn how to incorporate physical activity in the classroom. Representatives of the Move to Learn Initiative of Mississippi presented the seminar to faculty members who wanted to learn how to incorporate more physical fitness into their curriculum. Move to Learn is a Mississippi-based and is dedicated to getting students moving in the classroom. The group promotes the idea that doing this allows students to perform better socially and academically while decreasing absenteeism and building healthy habits that kids can take with
them for the rest of their lives. Move to Learn functions primarily as a resource for Mississippi teachers to draw on. Their website houses over 1,240 lesson plans that incorporate fitness and nutrition education into lessons designed to support Mississippi’s College and Career Ready Standards and Mississippi Frameworks put in place by the Mississippi Department of Education. The lesson plans are designed for individual grade levels and go from pre-k all the way up to seniors in high school. The website also has video content that can be streamed right from the site and features fitness coaches leading children in exercises in classrooms. The hope is that educators can put these videos on in their own classrooms and lead children in exercises. All of these re-
sources are available completely for free to anyone who wants to use them. The Bower Foundation funds Move to Learn and allows them to produce all of the videos. Coach Calhoun is the primary person appearing the videos. Calhoun has a master’s degree in education from Jackson State University and has taught fitness in the Clinton Public School District since 2002. He was one of the people who addressed the OIS teachers Wednesday afternoon where he shared both personal experience and research as to why he believes it is important for children to be physically active in their educational environment. “I think this is important for a number TURN TO MOVE PAGE 6
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