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Educators were not satisfied with isolated examples and, wanting to determine how essay writing help services combined with regular breaks affect student engagement in the classroom, conducted a series of experiments with colleagues in U.S. public elementary schools. All experiments confirmed that children were significantly more attentive after recess than before it. In addition, it was found that students concentrate worse if recess is delayed, in other words, if the lesson drags on and on without end{14}.

In Finland, elementary school teachers seem to understand this intuitively. They regularly - both in rainy and sunny weather - send the children outside, and they decide for themselves how to spend the break better.

Although I like the Finnish model, I realize that most school administrators in the U.S. are unlikely to make such a drastic change in the daily routine, believing that letting fifth graders out on the playground every hour is too much. As Pellegrini argues, you don't have to be outdoors to benefit from change. In one of the experiments that the professor carried out in a public elementary school, the children stayed indoors, but the results were no worse than after resting outside: when the students returned to class, they worked more concentrated{15}.

In Finland, thanks to a rash-covered fifth-grader, I realized that by taking regular breaks one should not blame oneself for leaving less time to explain the material: one should see recess as a strategic tool that is useful for learning. According to Pellegrini's research, frequent breaks increase students' attention span. With this in mind, we no longer have to fear that students will not learn what they need to learn if we let them break from their work several times during the school day. The year after I moved to Helsinki, Debbie Rea, an American researcher and kinesiologist, visited Finnish schools, and she too was inspired by the frequent 15-minute breaks. Upon her return to the U.S., she launched an experiment designed to evaluate the benefits of the Finnish model schedule with multiple breaks during the school day{16}.

Today Ria's research continues in several American schools in different states, and the first results have already been obtained, which look promising. For example, educators at Eagle Mountain Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas, have recorded significant changes in the behavior of students who are given four 15-minute breaks each day.