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Author: Written by Laura Warner

Submitted By: Lucy Robertson

Date Added: Thursday, 07 January 2010 22:04

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Description: The author, a wellness teacher at Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School in Devon, Massachusetts, describes how the school incorporates healthy risk-taking into its wellness (physical education) classes. She reviews research suggesting that adolescents have a natural, developmental need to take risks as part of forging their own identities and bonding with their peers. Warner states that “as physical educators, we can cultivate an atmosphere in which students push themselves to new limits, both physically and emotionally, while feeling supported by their classmates and teachers.” Part of a theme issue on “Health and Learning.”