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How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students

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Enhanced Focus and Energy Maintaining razor-sharp focus and boundless energy has always been the secret sauce for high-achieving students. They can also increase your energy , but most studies focus on short term effects. They can also increase your energy , but most studies focus on short term effects.

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Students’ Physical and Mental Health Declined During the Pandemic. Could a New Telehealth Initiative Help?

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Faced with these daunting realities, it’s understandable that school and district leaders might put deep investment in students’ physical and mental health on the back burner. Children’s Health Is Crucial to Closing the Achievement Gap Student wellbeing—including physical and mental health—is deeply intertwined with learning outcomes.

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Energy… Part 2 — Science is Sociopolitical

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Last summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Energy & Equity summer workshop (link takes you to the portal; find the current workshop info through links on that page). This Energy… Part 2 unit is meant to come after a typical conservation of energy unit. Energy as a Sociopolitical Concept.

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5 Steps to Find the Right Morning Routine for You

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What foods, vitamins, morning routines, and more give them the most energy. Based off John 15) Physical Impact — Weight, mood, hunger Productivity — Do I believe I was more or less productive as a result of this routine or can I tell? Today won't be my typical routine because I've got physical therapy this morning at 8 am.

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Extreme Heat Affects Young Children. Are Early Learning Programs Equipped for It?

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Everyone is feeling it — energy bills are up, social plans are disrupted, sleep and exercise are more elusive. That grant is part of the work LIIF is managing on behalf of the state of California to help about 4,000 providers expand and improve their physical spaces.) 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded on the planet — by far.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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Think Like a Scientist The lessons focus on chemistry and physics, two “gatekeeper” subjects that are typically seen as more difficult, Schneider says. Chemistry and physics teachers within these schools will deliver the curriculum. Students will learn to think like scientists.

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