GR2IT PLUS Mixed Athletics - Per Student Pricing

The GRIT PLUS Mixed Athletics option adds a physical education component to the SEL curriculum. While the Mixed Athletics are separate from the SEL curriculum, each lesson will have a focus point to incorporate principles and concepts from the SEL curriculum. The purpose of the Mixed Athletics option is to subtly reinforce the SEL curriculum and to acknowledge and support the brain-body connection. For young children, brain breaks improve student behavior (Carlson, et al., 2015), increase attention and productivity, as well as provide unstructured practice for social skills (Terada, 2018). The brain-body connection is important for learning in older youth as well. Physical activity is associated with improved academic performance (Raspberry et al., 2011) and various cognitive tasks (Institute of Medicine, 2013). The positive association between physical activity and academic achievement has been established in several studies (see Bass et al., 2013; Wassenaar et al., 2019). 

Each of the Mixed Athletics options provides a series of 10 short workouts of approximately 15 minutes in length. These lessons can be repeated in whole or part as desired to fill the P.E. period or added to other activities.