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IPTV’s First-Ever Healthy
Hike Gets Kids Moving
and Reading Across Iowa
Kids in every Iowa county joined together to
move and read more than 16 million minutes
in one month as part of Iowa Public Television’s
Healthy Hike initiative last spring. Dan Wardell,
popular host of the IPTV Kids Clubhouse, helped
schools celebrate their accomplishments by
paying them a visit.
One elementary school classroom and one library
in each county was selected to participate in the
competition, with students working to log min-
utes exercising and minutes reading throughout
the month of April. The combined efforts of these
99 communities totaled 16,508,686 minutes of
reading and moving.
Every school and library participating in the effort
received books about exercise for the school and
for the library, and a certificate for each student.
The schools that logged the most moving/read-
ing minutes were treated to a visit from Dan
Wardell during their celebratory Healthy Hike
events at their local libraries.
Stay tuned for 2010 plans for the Healthy Hike
program.
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Pink and Wagner
Daniel Pink and Tony Wagner, two big names in
education transformation, visited Iowa this fall to
address Iowa educators.
Dr. Tony Wagner, sponsored by SAI, the AEAs and
the Wallace Foundation, addressed Iowa educa-
tors attending the Leading, Learning and Teaching
in the 21st Century seminar on September 16 in
Des Moines. His day-long workshop keyed off his
recent book The Global Achievement Gap:
Why Even the Best Schools Don’t Teach the
New Survival Skills Our Children Need –
And What We Can Do About It.
Daniel Pink, best-selling author of A Whole New
Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future,
writes extensively about the changing world of
work. His new book Drive – the Surprising Truth
About What Motivates Us comes out in December.
Both experts are featured on the IPTV channels:
Daniel P