CHAPTER 8
Why Movement Is a Powerful Learning Tool
A local high school recently asked me to speak to students at its annual career day. The invitation was a return engagement that came after the publication of my 2010 book, The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through Movement. As the first to speak that day, I was positioned onstage waiting for the students to file in and didn’t initially notice the young woman standing on the floor at stage left motioning me over. But when she did catch my eye, I walked over and the young woman immediately stated her purpose.
“Weren’t you here last year?” she said.
“Yes, I gave the keynote,” I replied, ...
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