One in eight children suffers from anxiety disorders. Without intervention, they’re at risk for poor performance and social/behavior problems in school. Traditional behavioral approaches often don’t meet the needs of students with anxiety. An effective behavior plan must avoid rewards and consequences and focus instead on teaching the student to cope and use alternative responses. Incorporating preventative strategies and self-monitoring systems, within an anxiety management approach to behavior intervention, can be effectively implemented in schools.
Have you seen kids stack cups? It’s amazing to race against the clock! Today schools, teachers and parents are focused more than ever on academic achievement. Sport stacking not only promotes physical fitness, but also academic learning. Students that sport stack on a regular basis have shown increases in test scores and levels of concentration. This is achieved by students using both their right and left sides of their brain. When students sport stack they are crossing the "midline" of their bodies and developing new connections in their brains
