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Teacher starts nonprofit, Move! Music City, to help MNPS students stay active
A kindergarten teacher started a new program to get kids moving as opportunities for exercise in some Metro schools are low.
and last updated 2021-06-30 23:46:12-04
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â A kindergarten teacher started a new program to get kids moving since opportunities for exercise in some Metro schools are low.
After becoming a teacher with Metro Nashville Public Schools, Stephanie Legan quickly saw a need for kids to get exposure to physical fitness.
While working at Fall-Hamilton Elementary, she saw many students having only one PE class per week. Without a lot of funding for more PE teachers, Legan started showing children how to work out for just 10 minutes a day.
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School counselors are “shouldering the tremendous responsibility of helping young people heal from the momentous events of the past year and ongoing traumas,” write Justina Schlund and Amanda Fitzgerald for ASCD’s
In Service blog, and school leaders, they say, should prioritize counselors’ wellbeing.
But there’s no doubt that the stress of this disrupted school year is impacting all educators, and even under more normal circumstances, teachers are besieged by stressful, taxing conditions like overcrowded classrooms, long hours, crushing workloads that they often tote home, and the expectation that they meet the emotional and physical needs of all of their students.