The WholeHealthED Journey Begins at the Inaugural Symposium: June 15, 2018 Our goal of providing students a competency in health during their years of formal education took an important first step June 15 at Georgetown University, at WholeHealthED 2018, our inaugural symposium for leaders in school wellness programs and healthcare services and programs devoted to […]
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RESEARCH: Fitness and the Brain
If the brains of 70-year olds can be rejuvenated…how important is it for 7 year-olds…and their siblings? (Or anybody else?) A research study led by neuroscientist Arthur Kramer at the University of Illinois in sedentary people ranging from 60-79 showed that after six months those with improved fitness had an increase in brain volume in […]
Earth Week ends, stay outside kids
A most compelling vision of Hope for the Future can be seen in the scores of videos circulating YouTube that show kindergarteners from all over the planet cavorting through the woods, tripping through creeks and having their scientists genes stimulated. Here are a few, including the words of educators speaking to the value of […]
A Whole Health Era Unfolding
“Whole Health Learning” is part of a broad societal response to the intractable presence of overwhelming conditions of ill-health faced across America; conditions that have thus far outrun conventional medicine’s – and society’s — ability to redress them, notably: obesity, especially in childhood, that sets the population onto the path of chronic illness the debilitating […]
New Lingo? “Health Strengthening Factors”
As in: “Which HSFs do kids study in 5th grade?” We hope that question and others like it find their way into faculty lounge and curriculum conversations in the future: it will mean that principals, classroom teachers and administrators have begun educating kids to a competency in the many health-related factors of life they will […]
