Today on the Answer Sheet, a Washington Post blog, Sean Slade, director of ASCD’s Healthy School Communities, responds to first lady Michelle Obama’s "Let’s Move!" initiative. In addition to the four key areas that the first lady outlines, Slade argues that we also need to "move" our thinking about the connection between health and education.
One of the longtime barriers to improving kids’ health has been the separation of health from the education process, and it’s time to move on creating systemic change in education. We don’t need another program that gets cut when funding is tight or a day set aside to promote some cause or even a new curriculum that is contradicted by the activities and priorities within a school. We need systemic change that affects policies and practices that make up not only what schools do but how and why they do it.
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