Webinar — Physical Activity and Wellness: The Body-Brain Foundation of Academic Achievement

Experts from around the world present on how physical activity and wellness are essential sources of enhanced brain function, cardiovascular and metabolic health, and mental health that positively impact learning, growth, and development in schoolchildren, enabling them to be smart, healthy, and happy.

In addition, related to the presentations, and based on its two highly-successful pilot projects, learn about a school that the nonprofit, NGO American Sports Institute is creating—The Arete School of Sport Culture and Wellness—that will feature a physical activity, wellness, and arts-based, body-brain integrated learning methodology and curriculum as its foundation. The Arete School will serve as a model for transforming school systems worldwide, and will be a resource and training center for educators everywhere.

You can access the recorded webinar immediately below. Photos of the panelists are below the recording.

Prof. Herman Pontzer Duke University	Dr. Salomé Aubert Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance	Prof. Charles Hillman Northeastern University	Prof. Arja Sääkslahti University of Jyväskylä
Prof. Caterina Pesce University of Rome	Prof. David Lubans The University of Newcastle	Prof. Celia Álvarez-Bueno University of Castilla-La Mancha	Dr. Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan Paoletti Foundation
Prof. Neha Gothe University of Illinois	Prof. F. Gómez-Pinilla University of Calif, Los Angeles	Prof. Zhen Yan Virginia Tech University	Dr. Maria Åberg University of Gothenburg
Prof. Julene Johnson University of Calif, San Francisco	Prof. David Shernoff Rutgers University	Eddie Alvarado NBC Sports Bay Area	Shannon Mulholland International Development Agencies
Jenn Leverentz Twin Groves Middle School	Mark Ring Lakes Community High School	Ken Dyar Delano Union School District