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There are 3 item(s) tagged with the keyword "Comprehensive school health".
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1. Building Health Skills: Interpersonal Communication
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By Suzanne Schrag | March 27, 2019
If you’re an educator, you know that children and youth communicate all the time. Most classrooms and school grounds present an absolute flurry of communication. It’s no wonder the National Health Education Standards expressly include interpersonal communication as an essential element of effective health education.
This is because communicating about health, and knowing how to communicate in ways that build relationships, are distinctive skills that take practice to master.
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2. A Historic Year in Education and School Health
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By Jamie Sparks | January 15, 2019
The current school year is historic. Every state has shifted away from the federal education accountability mandates of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and towards state-created measures aligned to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
For those of us who have worked diligently for decades to promote and prioritize school health, this offers a “giant step” opportunity.
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3. Comprehensive School Health: A Matter of Life
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By John Henry Ledwith | September 27, 2016
What’s the true value of a comprehensive school health program? I have a surprisingly simple answer: it’s a matter of life.
This came home to me starkly the other day as I sat with a group of people who had been an integral part of my sons’ childhood and teen years. Here were some of their coaches, many of their friends, the parents of their friends. And my boys, too, now young men in their 20’s.
We had come to honor and remember a friend and former teammate who had taken his own life the previous week. We sat baffled and heartsick as we listened to this young man’s father, reaching out to the people in the room, appealing to us: “Please, do not focus on this one bad decision, this momentary impulse, of my son’s life. Do not let that define who he was and the memories you carry onward. He was so much more than this!”
- By John Henry Ledwith
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