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Healthy School Communities
Through the Healthy School Communities initiative, ASCD has taken a leadership role in helping schools address an array of factors, including physical and emotional health, that can contribute to optimum learning.
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ASCD Connected Communities
Find out more about forming an ASCD Connected Community with other educators around specific learning and teaching issues, especially if no ASCD affiliate exists near you.
Whole Child Podcast Discusses H1N1
A school superintendent, a school nursing expert, and ASCD's managing director of constituent services and liaison to the federal government agencies handling H1N1 discuss preventive measures and strategies to maintain learning continuity should the H1N1 virus affect large numbers of students.
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Blog Watch: The Other 17 Hours
Find out how students at the Thurgood Marshall Academy charter school in Washington, D.C., occupy their hours when they're not in school.
A New Curriculum for a New Century
Now that we're a decade into the 21st century, it's time to stop talking about a new curriculum and start using one. Schools need to consider how a curriculum and its delivery should change to meet the needs of students living in a world undergoing revolutionary changes. Through provocative expert insights and examples, this issue will offer ways to jump-start the critical conversations about content and new literacies, assessment, program structures, and instruction.
Health and Learning
What should schools do to promote a healthy environment for students—one that can optimize their learning? Having a healthy school involves developing policies and programs that not only encourage a healthy mind and body, but also establish safe hallways and classrooms so that students can flourish as individuals in an authentic, mutually supportive community.
This issue of ASCD Express highlights practical steps teachers, principals, and school communities can take to ensure that students understand, practice, and benefit from a healthy lifestyle.
Be sure to check out the December 2009/January 2010 Educational Leadership on "Health and Learning," which features a full plate of useful articles.
Nurturing Healthy Brains
Recognizing the importance of three common but critical health factors—nutrition, aerobic exercise, and sleep—can help educators better understand how to keep their and their students' brains healthy and primed for learning.
Reaching Health, Leadership, and Academic Goals One Step at a Time
Students and staff at Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts have promoted physical fitness, leadership, academic motivation, and community relationships through a popular walking club that meets before classes.
Resolving the Confidence Crisis
Healthy student self-esteem and self-confidence are rooted not in empty praise but in getting kids to understand that their own efforts are key.
Is Your School Healthy?
A Healthy School Report Card Helps Put Plans into Practice
Barclay Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore, Md., integrates health and learning by applying research and implementing policies that promote student and faculty health.
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New Leaders for New Schools: Building a Culture of High Aspirations
In turnaround schools, highly effective principals typically take the lead in promoting the message of high academic expectations for their students as the road to success in college and beyond.
My Back Pages: Fitness and Health
Check out this 1963 call to make health and physical education vital parts of the school curriculum, and decide whether these issues still go unresolved in the schools.
District Wellness Policy Focuses School Health Efforts
Indianapolis Public Schools wellness supervisor Audrey Satterblom urges schools and districts to keep student health on the front burner by adopting a wellness policy.
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