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Social Awareness & Relationship Skills are essential for forming and maintaining positive relationships so that peers and educators can become learning partners.
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Doing this collaboratively in the classroom through interactive activities also helps reduce students' anxiety around reading and writing in those subject areas.
Recess and physical education are ways for learners to exercise, which is essential for increasing oxygen flow to the brain and brain cell growth.
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