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National Healthy Lunch Finals Held at ED
While you may not consider West African succotash, home-style tortilla apple pie or lemon pepper chicken with brown rice standard fare for a school cafeteria, a group of culinary chef students hope to re-write cafeteria menus to prove that school … Continue reading
A “State Dinner” Just For Kids
Cross-posted from the Let’s Move! Blog Calling all kid chefs: The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge invites parents of kids ages 8-12 to submit an original recipe for a lunch that is nutritious and delicious. All entrants have the chance to win a trip … Continue reading
Hike It! Bike It! I Like It! Walk to School 2011
It’s a special day when communities and schools, parents, kids, and teachers make that extra effort to find an alternate safe way to get to school other than riding on a bus or in a car. Meg McFarland, Walking School … Continue reading
Cleveland Middle School Helps Put ED Tour in Motion
SOLON, Ohio—For a back-to-school sprint through the Great Lakes region, it just seemed to make sense to warm up with a little physical activity. So that’s what Michael Yudin, the Department’s acting assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, did … Continue reading
Posted in Back to School Tour 2011, Fueled and Fit, Headlines, News
Tagged Blue Ribbon Schools, Let's Move!
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ED Wraps Up Its Let’s Read! Let’s Move! Summer Series
Special guest Dora the Explorer joined Secretary Duncan and ED Senior Advisor on Early Learning Jacqueline Jones to encourage young students to be physically active and to keep reading during the final Let’s Read! Let’s Move! event at ED headquarters … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Let's Read. Let's Move., News
Tagged Let's Move!, Let's Read! Let's Move!
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Let’s Read! Let’s Move!, Part III
“You don’t have to be a professional writer to tell a story. So go out and tell a story!” Maya Soetoro-Ng told a group of young students gathered for ED’s third installment of its Let’s Read! Let’s Move! summer series. … Continue reading
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Tagged Let's Move!, Let's Read! Let's Move!
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Rep. Miller and Musician Eleanor Friedberger Join Arne for Let’s Read! Let’s Move! Part II
What if the law said you could have ice cream every day before school starts? Would you vote for that law? That’s the question Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.) posed to the young students gathered last week for ED’s second installment … Continue reading
Kicking Off the 2011 Let’s Read! Let’s Move! Series
“Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!” read U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last week to over 100 students from DC area schools and Early Head Start programs at ED’s first installment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Let's Move!, Let's Read! Let's Move!
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Waltzing Students to Health, Fitness and Rhythm
When the 2011 State Teachers of the Year visited the Department of Education in May, we asked them if they had solutions to challenges in the areas of teacher effectiveness, healthy schools and parent and community engagement. For Alaska Teacher of … Continue reading
A Teacher We Met: Terry Cornett
Agriscience teachers prepare students for one of the nation’s oldest and most-rewarding industries: growing safe and healthy food. Terry Cornett makes agriscience come alive for his students at Liberty Middle School in a rural segment of Hanover, Va. A 30-year … Continue reading
Posted in A Teacher We Met, Headlines, News, P-12 Reform, Rural, Teachers
Tagged Let's Move!, Teaching Ambassador Fellows
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Physical Fitness for All
Throughout May, the White House and Department of Education have celebrated Physical Fitness and Sports month—an annual reminder to us all of the importance of physical activity in our daily life. Yesterday, I joined Andrea Cernich with the President’ s … Continue reading
Let’s Move!: Federal Employees Help Students Gear Up for Fitness
While Friday the 13th is generally believed to be a day of perpetual bad luck, for the more than 200 students at Charles H. Houston Elementary in Washington, DC, last Friday was anything but unlucky, as students grooved to Kenny … Continue reading
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