Albany Avenue Elementary School recently launched a before-school fitness program called Walking to Wow, encouraging students to walk for 20 minutes before the school day begins. The program is based on a recent fitness study conducted by The University of Illinois-Urbana.
The study concluded that walking for fifteen minutes a day could increase student performance in a series of key academic areas. The areas of student performance improved by walking increased the volume of the brain, increased efficiency and other cognitive processes such as memory, attention and decision-making.
