Maya data doc

planning board

China: Lots of images of seemingly rigorous school exercises outdoors.

What can we learn from what other school systems are doing?

• 2020 statement. Improving the overall health of China’s more than 170 million children and adolescents has become a national priority.

• Physical Education is part of the compulsory national curriculum set by The Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People’s Republic of China from the first year of primary school up to the second year of college. The weekly PE time for grades one to two should be four hours, and for grades three to six, three hours.¹ Schools are required to organize extracurricular physical activities that can include morning exercises, class-break exercises, competitions, events, and after-school sports. Example: https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/physical-education-in-chinese-schools-role-models-repetition-and-winning/

Assumed causes:

• PE, lunch, recess shortened.

• Obesity is a data point, but unsure if it fits in our scope. Only if it impedes academic success.

Data Maya found for us so far, and we indicated where survey data might needed.

Maya data doc

• Be a student (shadow) for a day (likely focus on HS) for a day. (Would be interesting to show their pedometer from their desk job day vs. being a student. I know I walk a lot more.)(VIDEO with reflection at the end of the day)

• Pedometer readings?

• Shadow and ADHD student for the day? How is their day different if they have a 504 allowing movement. And what can we adopt for the regular student.

• Maybe incorporate data with this: what we know about students' days...

CDC has lots of data on how activity, even in short bursts, can impact class behavior, test taking, graduation rates, mental health.

2. What is most effective?

   1. Sustained programs, not one-off challenges or contests

Quiz?

Factoids presented in unique quilt where tiles can be turned for more information?

How can this important info be more engaging?

Several resources:

Classroom Physical Activity | Physical Activity | Healthy Schools | CDC

Aim is to be more inclusive, offer more avenues beyond soccer and baseball??

pickleball, ultimate frisbee, Girls on the Run (who started, and why focus on girls?)

more fun gym activities, TikTok Dance challenges

Our concept for this project is to look at student well-being and the impact on their ability to be productive and focused in the classroom. Namely: The system of schooling means kids are parked at their desks for a good part of the day. This goes against years of research that says active bodies helps with focus, behavior, and learning. Improved academic success is tied to active kids.

There are known barriers to make sustained and systematic changes. (Lack of time in the school day, policies around "safety" that are in direct conflict with some activity.)

We see this as an opportunity for collaboration between the DigNews and VEX to employ different storytelling approaches. Our goal: Think outside of the box for content, presentation, packaging. Likely we will not rely on any long narrative pieces.

At the core:  

• Solutions-oriented content and innovative approaches.

• Teachers incorporate movement in a classrooms and we want to see that, but are there examples of sustained and system-wide attention to activity where school leaders have tackled known barriers.

• We are thinking we want to show Elem, Middle, High School. Rural, Urban, Suburbs. (High poverty schools for example may not have the same opportunities and safe spaces to incorporate movement. Who has solutions?)

• The group thought to keep this to more practical-implement more immediately stories. Leave aspirational-need a budget-needs lots of strategy and business partners for another time.

  
  

-What data are we missing or is outdated and want survey data to fill in the gaps

Is their a district-level leader or principal making a difference beyond the classroom.

physical restrictions

other groups

Shadow an ADHD student through their day.

Are there innovations, alternative seating solutions, or other ideas that could benefit ALL students? (Potential Oak support)

Is there a site/school/teacher doing this particularly well.

• stand up desks

  Re-imagining the traditional desk/chair set-up. Exercise balls replacing chairs in some classrooms? These are old videos but included for inspiration: 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnrFlC7hwCU 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_iMnKiJUgg 

  
  

  There are + and - with yoga balls as chairs. We may need to help educators know how to navigate the pitfalls, so solutions are grounded in what to put in place and plan for.....

  
  

Can we have a former gym teacher interview a current day gym teacher? Gamify comparisons in some way?

Cat willl look up Hoops Championship.

Laura will find Student-Principal math study. (Done)

New idea for grouping: (JB)

Timeline of the day.... ideas for every hour of day. (before, between, lunch, pe, after?)

Add cards for content ideas.

Questions.

Half-baked ideas.

Don't need "format" defined.

No need right now to have a site visit in mind or specific person.

We are just chasing ideas right now.

Lunch

recess (Policies for "safety" restrict some games)

gym (better today)

Cat found this image for inspiration.

Stream of the package with Dive Deeper links.

Lauren

*Potential Oak

She will be attending.

urban

inner-city

scrollytelling?

Lauren will post examples.

Could be data story.

Could be low key animation.

• Participation data 

• I don’t see any, but it seems like schools in the past did sign up, so we might be able to ask for participation data from HHS, but we might have to FOIA it, which could take a long time 

• Evolved over time: 

• Some historical info 

• More in-depth info on page 5 of this PDF 

• Here’s what the attached research says about the current iteration: “In 2012, the reorganized Presidential Youth Fitness Program (PYFP) was launched to promote health-related fitness through school-based physical education programs. The program provides a model for fitness education that includes the use of a health-related fitness assessment, as well as educational and motivational tools to support teachers and empower students to adopt an active lifestyle. The PYFP provides teachers with tools to promote fit and active youth. Sustained positive messaging from programs like PYFP arguably has the potential to contribute to the development of healthy school culture. Based on this mission, the PYFP has used ongoing, content-based professional development (PD) as a medium to transform teacher knowledge by sharing strategies for providing quality physical education in schools.” 

narrative stream, packs into factoid downloadable

Includes CDC guidance, research, pediatric recommendations, science, known benefits to give educators impetus to incorporate movement.

Sarah Sparks involvment, but visually-driven delivery

Maya has some data too to vet for this

Ann Arbor Open Public School in Ann Arbor Michigan.

Level 2

potentially Level 3.