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"What factor is very important in student achievement? Mike Kuczala talks about the value of movement in teaching and learning. Mike Kuczala is the coauthor the Corwin Bestseller and Association of Educational Publishers' Distinguished Achievement Award nominated, "The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning through Movement," a book and philosophy that has changed the view of teaching and learning around the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx"

What if we didn't need brain breaks because movement was built in to the lessons and activities? What if we designed the learning experiences with movement in mind?

Great Expectations brings popular picture books to life using a multi-sensory approach - songs, tactile play, picture descriptions, body movement, engaged listening - all designed to promote active reading experiences for children with visual impairments.

"When making your own PowerPoint book, a template can be a helpful time saver. The templates below are for creating ABC books and personal books for students with significant disabilities, including deaf-blindness. The templates have high contrast backgrounds and some have finger spellings. (The finger spelling photos come from Pics4Learning.com. They are free!). The templates have also been setup so that there is an auditory click and some movement when students turn the pages in the book. In all of the downloadable templates, the pages and the text boxes have already been made. Teachers, therapists and/or parents can spend time adding pictures and text, rather then the technical aspects of starting from scratch."

"Imagine being unable to say, "I am hungry," "I am in pain," "thank you," or "I love you," - losing your ability to communicate, being trapped inside your body, surrounded by people yet utterly alone. For 13 long years, that was Martin Pistorius's reality. After contracting a brain infection at the age of twelve, Pistorius lost his ability to control his movements and to speak, and eventually he failed every test for mental awareness. He had become a ghost. But then a strange thing started to happen - his mind began to knit itself back together. In this moving talk, Pistorius tells how he freed himself from a life locked inside his own body."

Brain computer interface, or BCI, could day help restore movement to paralyzed people and enable amputees to move bionic limbs.

"United Opt Out National serves as a focused point of unyielding resistance to corporate ed. reform. We demand an equitably funded, democratically based, anti-racist, desegregated public school system for all Americans that prepares students to exercise compassionate and critical decision making with civic virtue."

"Move To Learn Fitness Break!"

Research shows that physical "brain breaks" can help students activate, energize, and stimulate their brains. GoNoodle helps students "get the wiggles out" with brain breaks. Create a free login, set up your class, and choose from a variety of exercise, movement, and dance videos.

Give someone a scary book for Halloween.

Slidedeck for presentation by Tara Jeffs, Chris Bugaj, Karen Dietrich, and Mark Nichols at ATIA 2013.