Past Events

The TC Summer Movement Challenge was a community-wide campaign to motivate all current & incoming students, alumni, faculty and staff to “Come Together” and get moving in honor of the Teachers College Class of 2020. Coach Carol Ewing Garber, EXerT Clinic director, and her team of students from the EXerT Clinic were with participants every step of the way as they moved towards the end-of-Summer goal. EXerT Clinic provided tips and suggestions to get (and keep!) everyone moving, including weekly motivational videos, twelve in all! Movers in the challenge “moved” over 45,000 miles around the globe and raised over $11,000 for students.  

Members of the EXerT Clinic team hosted an educational and interactive physical activity session for parents of children at TCCS that participate in SKIP! - Small Kids in Physical Activity. SKIP! is a program that was designed to promote physical activity and foster motor development in young children from low resourced families by using evidence-based research on pediatric movement, behavioral and developmental science, and physical education. The program began at Columbia University Head Start and Early Head Start with children and their caregivers which has now transitioned to Teachers College Community School (TCCS). Three of the Arthur Zankel Fellows, their sponsor Dr. Carol Ewing Garber, and members of Teacher's College EXerT Clinic held the workshop for the parents of students at TCCS.

As a part of TC’s International Week celebration, the EXerT Clinic provided an interactive poster session. Our team created a map of the world, then labeled 15-20 countries and made a trivia game about exercise in each country. As participants walked through the exhibits, people that stopped by were asked questions such as “What do you think is the most popular method of exercise in Egypt?” or “What percentage of people get the recommended daily activity in Japan?”. The event provided an accessible way for participants to engage in conversations about exercise and physical activity in a fun and engaging way!  

After completion of a long semester, and before the TC community scattered for the Summer, the EXerT Clinic hosted one more health fair for the 2018-2019 academic year. Members of the TC community at large were encouraged to stop by the EXerT Clinic lab space for a quick “checkup”, including height and weight, blood pressure, and resting heart rate.

The EXerT Clinic team moved their lab to a large meeting space in Horace Mann hall on the Teachers College campus to host their largest community health fair event of the Spring. Here, clinic team members guided participants through a “maze” of health fair stations. Measurements included a physical activity questionnaire, height and weight for BMI calculation, a lung function test, handgrip strength assessment, plus blood pressure screening including resting heart rate and oxygen saturation.

During the 12^th annual Academic Festival at Teachers College, the EXerT Clinic provided a health fair for all academic festival participants. We welcomed festival-goers into our lab space to provide blood pressure screenings, body composition measurements, and lung function tests. Read more about our work and see highlights from the Academic Festival.

Members of the EXerT Clinic team joined other TC programs in this annual community festival that includes food, music, and activities. EXerT included blood pressure measurements, oxygen saturation status and handgrip strength testing as a part of the health fair, and provided participants with their results and additional resources on health and well-being. Throughout the day-long festival, EXerT team members engaged with members of the community across ages, health status and abilities and was honored to serve the community in this way. Check out some photos from our time at the festival!

For our first Spring event of the 2018-2019 academic year at TC, the EXerT Clinic hosted a TC Community health fair, featuring our very own “Panda” mascot! Panda and our team members welcomed people across the TC campus to get their blood pressure checked, measure height and weight, perform a lung function test, and even hop on our stationary bike. Panda was there to do all of the tests along with our health fair attendees, who went home with individualized blood pressure cards and information on health, exercise, and well-being. Always keep on the lookout for our Panda mascot to show up at a health fair event!