You don’t have to tell anyone at Brooklyn’s PS 631 to “move it.”

Everyone starts each day on the move. Students and staff at the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school meet in the gym before classes begin for some cardiovascular moves to the beat of popular music. The early morning Move-to-Improve exercises continue throughout the day in the classrooms of teachers trained to shake out any lazy bones from sitting too long.

Last year PS 631 became one of the first schools with all teachers on board and trained in the Move-to-Improve program that was initiated by the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Education to fight childhood obesity and to increase physical activity among children.

Chapter Leader Mavis Yon championed the program as a great way to keep kids “motivated, engaged and focused.”

“The kids love the program,” she said. “It’s fun, it meets their needs and it helps fight the obesity that is rampant in this community.”

The added bonus,Yon said, is the “collaborative spirit among all the staff in making the program a success.”

Because research shows that students’ academic success is based on a combination of academic skills, good health and physical and mental fitness, the Move-to-Improve program provides teachers with the tools to integrate grade-level academic concepts and physical activity into 10-minute structured activities. The K–5 program also supplements the school’s physical education program to meet the state requirements of 120 minutes of physical education a week — a minimum that many schools fail to meet.

All K–5 public school classroom teachers are eligible, but to be an Move-to-Improve All-Star school 85 percent of teachers must commit to training, which includes a three-hour professional development workshop offered to K–3 and grades 4–5 teachers separately. Teachers also receive music CDs and instructional manuals.

For more information about the program, go to www.uft.org/our-rights/move-improve or call 1-718-391-8181.