TO:                  All Staff

FROM:            Tom Watkins, Director

                           Research, Evaluation, and Assessment

                        Steve Schellenberg, Assistant Director

                           Research, Evaluation, and Assessment

RE:                   SOTW:  Healthy Alternatives to Chairs and Desks

"Can you imagine a school without desks? A school where children are moving as part of their lessons? And most importantly, they are smiling and healthy?" asks Mayo Clinic obesity researcher James Levine, M.D., Ph.D.  If so, you have imagined the latest anti-obesity concept-project from Mayo Clinic — the classroom of the future.  Please click the link below for full report.

Thank you.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2006-rst/3278.html