Why Your Child Needs Movement to Learn | Angelique Chaverri

Why does a reading teacher require a pull-up bar?

In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Angelique Chaverri, M.S.Ed. joins Dr. Michael Christian & John to explore a question modern education often misses: What is the rest of the child doing while we’re asking the brain to learn?

Angelique works with students through Scholé Academy & the Center for Students for Learning Differences. Her approach brings together reading instruction, movement, posture, proprioception, vestibular function, primitive reflexes, cognitive timing, visual tracking, rhythm, & what she calls classical physical education.

We get into why ordinary childhood movement may matter for learning; the relationship between crawling, walking, balance, posture, eye tracking, & reading; what primitive reflexes like ATNR have to do with development; why older models of physical education included hanging, stall bars, health wands, music, rhythm, & self-defense; what modern schooling may have lost by pushing formal academics earlier; & why Angelique believes physical literacy belongs alongside academic literacy.

But underneath all of it is the question Orthodox Health keeps returning to:

What is the body actually for?

Orthodox Christianity never treats the human being as a brain carried around inside an inconvenient body. We pray, fast, stand, kneel, bow, prostrate, sing, work, play, suffer, & worship as embodied persons.

So why would education be different?

Chapters:

0:00 - Coming Up - When We Got Rid of the Horses

00:56 Orthodox Health Intro

2:25 - Why the Body Participates in Learning

7:14 - Homeschooling Led Her to Orthodoxy

10:32 - Body, Mind, Soul & Child Development

17:15 - Why Does a Reading Teacher Require a Pull-Up Bar?

19:33 - Classical Physical Education

24:37 - Phonics, Sight Words & Modern Reading

32:40 - Cognitive Timing, Rhythm & the “Brain Clock”

40:16 - Primitive Reflexes & Neurological Development

43:29 - ATNR & Learning Differences

47:57 - Primitive Reflexes, Martial Arts & Movement

53:43 - Eye Tracking, Reading & Dyslexia

55:49 - Crawling, Walking & Processing Speed

58:19 - Posture & Learning

1:01:20 - Proprioception, Spatial Awareness & Math

1:06:14 - Swedish Stall Bars & Classical PE

1:11:12 - Did We Push Formal Academics Too Early?

1:13:38 - Why Two-Year-Olds Should Move

1:15:13 - Why Age Seven Keeps Showing Up

1:17:03 - Jump Rope & the Scholar-Athlete

1:19:58 - Physical Literacy & What Needs to Change

1:20:52 - Where to Find Angelique

1:21:40 - Orthodox Formation Is Embodied

1:26:20 - Marina Becomes the Longitudinal Case Study

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Work with Angelique:

Scholé Academy Website & their Learning Differences Center

The Renaissance Video & The Motivation Factor⁠

The Lean Berets - Youtube

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