First implementations of the Wellness Studies Program at four NJ middle schools bring favorable assessment A survey of middle school students attending four schools in Cumberland County NJ who participated in the spring 2019 semester in our Wellness Studies Program showed significant improvement in their appreciation for multiple health-improving activities that are at the core of the curriculum. The survey was conducted by the regional offices of the 21st Century Community … [Read more...] about Survey: Wellness Studies “a significant difference”
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Mindfulness: Total Immersion?
At the K-12 McLean School in Potomac, MD outside Washington, DC, mindful qualities define almost every aspect of the school experience, for students, faculty, staff and parents. Mindfulness is a cornerstone of the transformative environment evolving at McLean School. Gratitude, Heartfulness, Empathy, and Positive Thinking are all mindfulness lessons taught in McLean’s classrooms. The continuation and reinforcement of these activities at home provide practice time and skill development for … [Read more...] about Mindfulness: Total Immersion?
#WholeHealthED 2018 Symposium Video Comments
Thanks everyone for your interest in our Project! Here is our mid-summer update. Our first convening June 15 at Georgetown University in Washington, brought together a unique group of specialists all working to improve the health of children but who have never had occasion to meet previously: coordinators of K-12 school gardens, mindfulness, nutrition and other wellness programs met with pediatricians and healthcare program specialists and researchers. It was a compelling mash-up that has … [Read more...] about #WholeHealthED 2018 Symposium Video Comments
The Journey and the Destination
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 improving kids' health. This gathering was the first opportunity for wellness program developers, advocates and school … [Read more...] about The Journey and the Destination
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 opioid addiction epidemic pervasive and complex social determinants of health that wrack too many American … [Read more...] about A Whole Health Era Unfolding
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 face after secondary school. But really: HSFs? Do we really need another acronym to drop into the education system? I don't see any alternative. This one (and … [Read more...] about New Lingo? “Health Strengthening Factors”
