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The school has slowly reduced recess down to a ten minute period tacked onto lunch. In many cases, the most rambunctious students lose out on this time because they are hyperactive in class. Thus, as they sat in solitude taking their common assessments, legs jiggled, kids giggled and teachers grew angry. Kids looked cagey and I couldn’t blame them.

I’m not sure if it’s an issue of liability, the obsession with test-taking or the high-minded talk about high standards, but we’re doing an injustice to kids when they don’t a chance for free play and recess. This sounds like an overstatement, but here in the U.S. we face a hypertension epidemic. People are literally dying for play.

I know we are trying to push for play in and out of school. I believe in the power of play. Yet, what I’m also suggesting here is a specific movement for movement – a way that we can get recess back into school so that kids who don’t have the opting out option can still benefit. I’m taking it local first. I’ll try and meet with the school board and I’ll write to representatives. I’m not sure if the Death of Recess is an issue in other regions.

However, I want to raise awareness and move toward action with this issue. I would love some specific ideas on how to move forward with this.

(Source: adventuresinlearning)

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Visioning is the process of imagining preferable future possibilities and probabilities to set forth a plan for transformational action. The definition of visionaries I am using is offered by David Hicks, as   “those who offer visions of an earth transformed and who work to help” make it so (David Hicks, pg 15 2010)  Visioning can be traced back to antiquity, but was popularized in the 1950’s by the Dutch historian and one of the founding fathers of Futures studies, Fred Polak. Since the 1950’s visioning has become a popular way for groups, organizations and individuals to come together around a set of ideas that drives their mission forward.  
Linda Stout believes visioning is a verb, something active that people do together that helps them move from a problem to creating solutions. (2011, Pg 14) In terms of transforming education, visioning asks the question, first “What do we want the education to look like?” and then, “how do we get there?”  By asking these question we are not merely looking to a utopian vision, instead we are presenting our pragmatic “critique of the present time”. It is Linda Stout’s belief that any sustainable long term movement must be centered on a positive vision of what we can accomplishment and what the world will look like once we do. (2011, Pg xvi).

This sounds exactly like the Leadershape Institute, a really great leadership development program. 

I wish I could @mention people on Tumblr. Is there a way to do that? #tumblrnoob

Thanks for sharing Leadershape… excited to learn more about them.