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This chapter offers extensive research that supports the concept of using academic teaching methodologies to help students increase their academic success, brain function, health, and well-being. These studies are current, thorough, and plentiful. It is important to recognize the significance of the consistent evidence that validates the benefits of implementing lessons with kinesthetic learning and movement. However, what role does common sense play? Is it feasible to trust that when students are actively engaged in educational environments, they will perform better academically? Does it make sense that increasing oxygen, blood flow, and nutrients to the brain will enhance cognitive output? Is it logical to believe that having students move throughout the school day will develop their health, fitness, and overall well-being? Yes! What about the studies that have connected movement and physical activity to an increase in attendance and a decrease in behavioral challenges? Is it believable that healthier students will attend school more frequently? Can utilizing movement daily help to meet this objective? Can you agree that students who are physically active and enjoying their school day will behave better? The answer to all these questions is a resounding yes! The overflow of research presented in this chapter has colossal value; however, so does common sense. The bottom line is that when it comes to developing and enriching 21st-century learners, active learning simply fits our needs! As time passes, this chapter will fade and you may only recall the big picture that the evidence provides: Active teaching strategies create a new era of learning while magnifying student success. Nevertheless, reasonable summations of the advantages of physical activity and movement are timeless. It is plausible to predict that growing research on the power of movement in classroom settings will continue and expand while strengthening the support behind this cause. However, it is equally valuable to know that common sense justifies the research regarding this convincing teaching tool.

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