Some kids just need a break.
And they get two in Britt Sexton’s art classes at Beach High School.
“I have an alarm that goes off twice a period,” Sexton said. “This Beyonce song comes on. And the kids stop what they’re doing.”
Then she and the students do squats. Twenty of them.
“It gives them a chance to get up,” Sexton said. “Some of them will dance while they’re squatting.”
It’s her way of implementing one of the principles of a pilot program at the Long Beach Unified School District campus.
This school year saw the debut of It’s About T.I.M.E. The acronym stands for trauma-informed movement in education.
The program has two core principles, according to Nathan Swaringen, a clinical therapist with The Guidance Center, a Long Beach-based mental health provider for disadvantaged children that is partnering with the school.
[For more of this story, written by David Downey, go to http://www.presstelegram.com/s...ed-suspensions-by-71]
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