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I want to welcome our audience to this
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learn podcast it is in these podcasts
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that learn wants you to meet experts
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that can help you in your work as school
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leaders or perhaps Partners in the
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education landscape the topic for this
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podcast is get moving to learn and our
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guest is Timothy Schmidt sales associate
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manager and Senior Wellness consultant
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for Google on the learn website you will
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find on the research page under the Coe
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of health and element of Fitness
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research in this area being discussed
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today along with potential resources to
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access Timothy I want to welcome you to
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the learn podcast it is really good to
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have you here to speak with us about
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this important topic now I know that you
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have extensive research and work
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background in the area of health and
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wellness and that you've been
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instrumental in helping individuals and
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organizations gain greater insights on
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how to change behaviors related to
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health and wellness would you please
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share with the audience some of that
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background and
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experience uh thanks David I would
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absolutely love to to and uh thank you
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so much for having me in this podcast um
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you know in my experience that I've
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accumulated uh I I'm very passionate
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about the subject matter as I'm sure you
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are and your listeners are as well so
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it's it's so good to be here but um
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years ago I obtained my my master in
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social work and I began to work with a
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lot of lowincome families to become
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self-sufficient I was a case manager at
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a head start outside Chicago and and at
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the time I had a pretty serious uh
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personal health issue that took me out
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of work a few weeks and I I recovered um
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but I developed a really Keen passion uh
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to assist families become
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healthier and I work with a lot of
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families that were stuck on
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routines and I learned that old habits
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die hard um in really motivating the
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families on behav Behavior change is
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about small wins and accumulating small
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wins tiny accomplishments that build
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time over
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time and then I transitioned to fiit
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about nine years ago when fiet was
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really the only player out there in
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activity trackers and I was really taken
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back by how simple and effective
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technology can be to make us healthier
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right um
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how we can motivate each other and keep
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us responsible for our
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activity and in my time of fit I've
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worked with numerous schools numerous
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organizations in getting employees and
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getting students um really more
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cognizant and aware of increasing
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activity levels
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right so in my nine years I have
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assisted about 100 schools in getting
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students in faculty working together and
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in the past year or
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two I've also noticed more of a direct
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correlation between activity and
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increasing Focus concentration learning
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for students so I've spoken at a few
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conferences in the past year or two
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directly about this subject matter right
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and I got to imagine coming out of covid
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um that both not just from a kind of
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physical wellness but a mental Wellness
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perspective as well that has been
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driving a lot of the the
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conversations it it it really has I mean
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um you know the the trends that we're
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actually seeing from covid um you know
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are certainly certainly alarming um one
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of my favorite stats that kind of uh
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that I've come across is that it takes
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an average child today 90 seconds longer
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to run a mile than their parents did wow
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yeah and you know for for various
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reasons uh you know in my experience I'm
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seeing that schools are pushing physical
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activity to the
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Wayside and the covid pandemic has
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really exacerbated the issue right even
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more so um one study I came across
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showed that children today are spending
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nearly eight hours a day in front of a
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screen
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right and and you know another study
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shows that uh in difficult times over
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half of parents are cutting down an
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after-school activities for their
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children and you know all of this coming
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together uh has led to increasing
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obesity rates that we've never seen
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before in children yeah and I got to
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imagine you know that's some of the
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research that I was hoping you would
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cite in this conversation today and I
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got to imagine that that you know
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somewhere in the neighborh of four those
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hours on screen time are at schools and
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probably the the other half at home and
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so the the kiddos are not getting as
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much opportunity to to engage in in
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physical care um and while that Al that
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leads to obesity issues it leads to you
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know just overall Wellness issues as
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well correct is can you cite some
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information around that as
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well yeah absolutely I mean so we're
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we're seeing that um you know in all of
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my experience um what we found found is
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that increasing physical activity
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increases blood flow to the brain it
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promotes cell growth in the hippoc
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compus and that's responsible for the
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The Learning in the memory Center um
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some studies show that the increase in
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learning can be 20 25 30%
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greater and we also are seeing a more
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mature uh prefrontal cortex in an active
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child which is about making decisions
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and juggling lots of tasks at
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once and you know another thing I really
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found in my research and my experience
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with schools is that exercise increases
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endorphins which impact mood and energy
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levels and can help Stave off uh
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depression and anxiety and just simply
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make a child feel better about
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themselves that's just that that
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information is absolutely amazing and
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we've you know one of the things that
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occurs to me in education is being
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proactive than always reacting to things
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is where we want to be and and what
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you're suggesting to me is a proactive
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means of establishing a wellness program
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for kiddos and the adults that serve
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them including the families as a whole
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would really have great benefit to to
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students which leads into my next
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question which is if um a district
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wanted to engage in this work what are
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those kind of predictable positive
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outcomes that they would want to make
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certain they communicate that you could
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tell them you're going to see these
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outcomes comes what are some of those
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things that they would want to
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communicate to their public that they
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would be guaranteed to see if they
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implemented some of this Wellness
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programming from Fitbit yeah I well I
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just I love this question um you know
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there's so many different ways I want I
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want to tackle um this question but you
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know right off the bat I I think that
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technology in a child's life and our
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lives is a blessing and a curse right um
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and we have this massive opportunity to
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make
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technology enhance Our Lives to hold us
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more accountable but there are certain
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red flags that we really want to steer
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clear from when it comes to Children
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okay and something that works really
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well with Fitbit is we have very few
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distractions on our devices compared to
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compared to our competitors we have no
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pictures we have no games no social
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media no texting so parents and teachers
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can really rest assure that Fitbit will
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not increase screen addictions and
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that's something that is extremely
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important um another thing is some some
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school districts come to us and they're
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a little bit reluctant about revealing a
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lot of or finding out a lot of child
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data that's personal and fitbits schools
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that take on such initiatives they only
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know step dat so a a teacher is not
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going to know sleep patterns heart rate
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um eating patterns anything like that so
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it's just going to be about step data so
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privacy is really not going to be an
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issue interesting and I and that is
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predominant in a lot of school districts
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today they're very concerned about it
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rightfully
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so right absolutely absolutely and um
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you know a few other positive incomes
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would be um you know a general awareness
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of how to monitor your health health and
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have children see these connections
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right uh how does an increase in active
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minutes impact sleep um so we have a
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holistic model that we're very
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passionate about so it's going to be
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mental health as well as physical health
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and we're really passionate about sleep
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nutrition mindfulness and activity so
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our whole philosophy is as complicated
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as health is focusing on those four key
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principles
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are really going to pave the way um to
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impact mood and energy levels but simply
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focusing on those four habits are really
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going to pave healthy patterns for one's
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life yeah and and I would think based on
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what you're telling me that it also uh
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improves the condition of work for the
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teacher just by default if you've got
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that type of student in front of you it
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makes the experience of teaching and
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learning just that much more enjoyable I
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would think
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absolutely absolutely you know it's kind
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of funny you're reading my mind um a lot
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of our schools that Implement some of
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these programs have noted that one of
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the major benefits is going to be a
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decrease in teacher
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burnout um you know so teachers are
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going to be um they're going to notice
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that their students are more aware uh
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focused and concentrated certainly fewer
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behavior problems and that in in in time
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is going to also lead to just just happy
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teachers right um you know but outside
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of exercise uh you know we are extremely
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proud that schools use Fitbit in the
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classrooms to make the students more
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connected to each other and the faculty
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as well um and we view a program as a
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way to really break down any
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communication barriers that teachers may
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have with students and get them to
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engage and connect together and that's
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and that's that's what actually exerc
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right in group
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exercise um you know that has a profound
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way to impact that area as well it's
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interesting because as you're telling
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this story so many schools especially
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elementary schools today are engaging in
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in you know this the concept of teams
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and and uh you know um I forget the term
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out of uh um oh Harry Potter but the you
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know having those groupings of kids and
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I I can just see a lot of fun and
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monitoring steps and having competitions
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within your teams and step monitoring
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could just bring a lot of joy and
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connectedness with kids and a lot of
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excitement around exercise and and uh a
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great opportunity if you will for
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schools now you mentioned that there is
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one implementation barrier and that that
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tends to be about concerns about privacy
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data have you seen any other kind of
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implementation barriers along the way as
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you've worked with school
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districts yeah so that's another great
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question um so the big biggest one we
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certainly come across is cost and you
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know some some school districts reach
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out to us and you know they want to know
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if we know of any grants or anything
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things like that um and we know that
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schools do work with grants we
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specifically do not recommend any um
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however you know any schools that have
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budget issues um you know to get fitbits
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some schools will get fiet for one class
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they let the students use the devices
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for a few months and then they'll simply
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transfer the fiets to a new set of
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students after a few months right uh
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when I started got nine years ago our
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fitbits would literally last two or
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three months until they'd come apart
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they'd break uh now fitbits last three
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to five years uh every fiet we have is
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swim proof and you know it's really
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meant to be a durable device so a child
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that is rough you know and and kind of
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you know does a lot of wrestling and
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things like that and just moves around a
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lot we expect the fitbits to really last
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long uh we offer attractive discounts as
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well for schools that make a purchase um
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but you know the other big
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implementation barrier I feel would be
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um a program really works better if each
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student has access to their own iPad or
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a Bluetooth pairing device that way they
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can sync the data up on their own um but
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if not a solution can be one iPad per
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classroom you know that tends to work
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out well and then maybe like once a week
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the teacher could sync up all the
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devices you know to their account by
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logging into each account um you know so
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that the starting process is going to be
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super easy um but one one thing we we
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Contin this to see is that um like most
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School initiatives they tend to go
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better if there's parental involvement
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right and um encouragement um is really
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really key from parents so you know
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focusing on healthier movement and and
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habits are going to be you know
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effective if done during the school day
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but we really need to see them done in
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the evenings on the weekends um you know
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parents you know really need to lead the
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way in terms of promoting healthy
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activity uh to really reach down and
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impact their their children as well well
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it's got to be near and dear to your
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heart considering your own experiences
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that bringing the family together around
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this work builds that family and and uh
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you know gets them in a place of
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connecting and we do know today that
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needs to be a a major initiative and if
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we can do that through exercise what a
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wonderful way to do it now I want to ask
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you you've dealt with a like you said
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100 plus schools in your time with this
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and and so is how has it impacted the
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schools you've dealt with and is there
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any school or District you would want a
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site that would help our audience uh
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connect to this work yeah I mean just
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another another great question uh we
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have a lot of uh you know see a lot of
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positive impacts um I'd love to mention
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a few schools but um you know we've
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worked with a a wide range of schools
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from elementary schools high schools
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public schools private schools I feel a
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a a sector of schools that we see more
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than other are Charter Schools Charter
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School tools um a lot of people think
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they get uh additional funding they do
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not but they have fewer requirements in
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terms of how to use that
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funding and Charter Schools often um are
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really kind of uh working against other
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schools for enrollment so they sometimes
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think of of the Box um ideas or
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Solutions uh you know to get their to
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get enrollment to get creative to
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address student
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issues um but rather than simply
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purchasing
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devices successful clients will get
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creative with running their program um
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so we partner with a number of uh
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lowcost Step Challenge platforms so
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instead of having a simple
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leaderboard um you know some of our our
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platforms that we partner with um can uh
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do a Step Challenge walking around the
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country to go to league
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ballps and uh you know it's just it's a
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fun way for a child to see um you know
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going uh to San Francisco stadium then
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the Houston Stadium right um we've also
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partnered with a a really fascinating
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initiative called The Daily mile have
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you heard of this I'm not familiar no
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okay so it's basically where um clients
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are going to set up an outdoor space for
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children and teachers together to walk
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and run um 20 to 30 minutes a day a few
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times a week nice and no no matter the
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weather um you know they're going to go
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outside and what they have seen is uh
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just a wide range of positive impacts on
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students and
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faculty so what we see is that 20
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minutes of intense activity there's
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going to be a 28 to 32 minute window
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where that learning becomes optimal wow
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and students are going to report to be
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far calmer and focused and teachers
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actually are going to put their most
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important lesson plan after this
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vigorous
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activity um teachers have shown that uh
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test scores have improved but also
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behavior is going to improve as well um
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and looking just at specific examples so
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so long before Fitbit um I believe in
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like the mid 2000s I'm located in
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Chicago Illinois and there's a there's a
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a very large school district outside
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Chicago uh naville very familiar and
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they implemented a comprehensive program
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to to really get kids in shape 19,000
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students first 30 minutes of every
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school day was devoted to intense cardio
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after a year 3% of their sophomores were
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overweight they had uh phenomenal test
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scores they were sixth in the world in
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mathem itics and first in
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science um they had no fist fights as
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well um so the the behavior impacts were
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Monumental yeah and they spent less per
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pupil than outside school districs did
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interesting right um yeah so it's just
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it's it's you know the uh the real world
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examples we see um so specifically with
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fiit uh there's a charter school um
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again you know very unique Solutions
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they're looking for so there's a charter
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school in California that's a virtual
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school as well uh they're called Elite
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academic and they fully implemented
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Fitbit into their student population
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with their faculty and they set up a
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comprehensive Step Challenge platform a
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number of years ago they wanted to
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bridge the gap between students and
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teachers as well and
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parents and they noticed that um after
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implementing these programs there
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children were more focused had an easier
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time concentrating and really Bridging
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the Gap between parents teachers and
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students um that they were really
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looking for it's absolutely amazing Tim
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you know when you look at a lot of the
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research out there around the exercise
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and you know obviously related to health
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but also to mental Wellness
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attentiveness things you've cited in
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this conversation today it it's it's
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amazing to me that as school districts
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we don't jump on that information more
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and I really am attuned to what you said
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es you know about this The Outdoor
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Learning the
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mile um challenge is that immediately
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following that is the best time to to
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implement some of your hardest learn
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stuff I've not heard that before and I I
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think it's valuable to our audience now
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if our audience wanted to hear more
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about this and see how they could
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implement this stuff more proactively
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and have a deeper conversation with you
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Tim how would they go about doing that
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yeah so simply um you know visit our
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Fitbit Health Solutions website um and
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we have a lot of information there we
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have some case studies about about what
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we do as schools um you know one more
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thing I I really wanted to mention is
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that um when we look at movement right
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um it's it's it's really going to be the
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impacts we're going to see are going to
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be positive combination of two things
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vigorous movement short burst of
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vigorous movement but also continuous
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movement throughout the day so that's
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what really effective schools are using
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um there's a book I love I want to give
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her some love it's a book called move
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and it's By Carolyn Caroline Williams
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and I just I love this quote I want to
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share with your audience trying to
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offset inactivity with simply a 30
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minute gym session is like trying to
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offset a bad diet with
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multivitamins wow right yeah I I think
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we're conditioned as a society today as
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we're we're sedentary we're sedentary
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let's go to the gym for 20 minutes and
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then that's it for the day so we're
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really looking for the a combination of
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of both of those but um you know I I I
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really wanted wanted to mention that but
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if if your audience members you know had
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uh you know any interest feel free to
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reach out to our FIP at Health Solutions
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website and uh you know we'd be certain
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to get back to you and I'd love to set
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up a phone call and learn more about
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your situation and if there want to
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contact you directly uh directly it's
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just going to be Timothy Schmidt
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google.com all right Timothy well I want
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to thank you for being a part of this
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important work of supporting our
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students in schools and I want to thank
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you for your participation in the learn
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podcast thank you David really
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appreciate your time I'm more than happy
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to um you know Assist and uh thank you
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for having me I'm very
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appreciated
