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Kinesthetic Strategies: Movement Enhances Academic Ability and Meets Learning Standards Students in lecture-based classes are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students in classes with kinesthetic, multi-sensory, movement-based learning (Freeman, et al., 2014). Only 21.6% of 6 to 19-year-old children and adolescents in the United States attained 60 or more minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on at least 5 days per week (National Physical Activity Plan Alliance, 2016). What do both of these things have in common? Students are sitting in class and not exercising their bodies. Their brains are minimally engaged and their learning is severely limited. One key change will greatly shift student success – include movement-based learning activities throughout the school day. A 2013 report from the Institute of Medicine concluded that “Children who are more active show greater attention, have faster cognitive processing speed, and perform better on standardized