North Carolina PE teacher Marty Mentzer's Basketball Poets club has helped her elementary school students shoot for a new level of achievement. Combining two seemingly diametric opposites--the love of literature and the love of sharp-elbowed lunges toward a suspended hoop--her four-year-old Basketball Poets club has managed to raise kids' achievement levels and has become a model for movement-boosted learning at schools across the region. The program integrates and permeates all levels of reading, writing, social studies, science, and art. The students critical-thinking skills and problem-solving capabilities are improved. There is strong evidence that this program assists students with positive end-of-grade test results.