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Download full textSohail M. Sukhera; Christopher R. Gordon; William L. Sterrett – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2025
Environmental unpredictability has become a crisis for the 21st century. In response, organizations from the local to international level are addressing the issues by creating, supporting, and promoting initiatives. Schools and school leaders play an important role in this work. An example of a multi-scaled initiative is the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Leadership, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Health Promotion
Direct linkAyala Zak Yehuda; Orna Baron-Epel – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Schools and the education system are powerful tools for cultivating healthy lifestyles. This research focuses on characterising the factors contributing to the development of health-promoting schools in Israel, and understanding how schools can offer a framework for improving students' health. Fullan's triple change model with its focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Yvonne O'Byrne; J. Dinneen; T. Coppinger – Irish Educational Studies, 2025
Irish children's physical activity (PA) levels are below national guidelines. Schools are an ideal setting to promote PA but it remains challenging. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a step-back approach to Project Spraoi (PS); a facilitator (Energizer) led school-based PA intervention. Each Energizer in year one had 2 contact days per…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Intervention
Rebecca E. Hasson; Michele Marenus; Amy Wassmann; Andria B. Eisman; Thomas Templin; Lexie R. Beemer; Tiwaloluwa A. Ajibewa; Anna Schwartz; Lynn Malinoff; Ronald F. Zernicke – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: Many school-based physical activity (PA) interventions are implemented without adequately assessing their contextual fit, which can hinder their effectiveness and sustainment, ultimately reducing their impact on student health and well-being. This study aimed to assess the pre-implementation fit of the Interrupting Prolonged Sitting…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Intervention, Elementary Schools, Program Effectiveness
Morgan Faith Schneider – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States is tobacco product use. The 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey, which was completed in 2022, showed that the e-cigarette epidemic among youth continues to remain a public health threat. The survey revealed that over 2.5 million middle and high school students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Smoking, Prevention
Thomas Packebush; Katherine Ahern; Barbara Brody; Katherine Gunter – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: School-based physical activity (PA) programs are an equitable, evidence-based approach to combat health and PA disparities. This study examined factors associated with implementation of BE Physically Active 2Day (BEPA 2.0), a K-5 school-based PA program, and examined how support from Cooperative Extension via Supplemental Nutrition…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Teacher Attitudes, Physical Education, Evidence Based Practice
Hahnraths, Marla T. H.; Willeboordse, Maartje; van Schayck, Onno C. P. – Health Education, 2023
Purpose: To gain insight into factors enhancing or obstructing implementation in various school-settings, which is vital for widespread dissemination and sustainable integration of school-based health-promoting interventions. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed methods multisite comparative case study to investigate (factors influencing) the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Elementary Schools, Intervention
Autumn Barnes, Contributor; Adina Cooper, Contributor; Marci Hertz, Contributor; Kesha Hudson, Contributor; Sarah Lee, Contributor; Sandra Leonard, Contributor; Bailee Peralto, Contributor; Mary Schauer, Contributor; Katy Suellentrop, Contributor; Jorge Verlenden, Contributor; Natalie Wilkins, Contributor; Camara Wooten, Contributor; Anna Yaros, Contributor – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023
This action guide was designed for school administrators in kindergarten through 12th grade schools (K-12), including principals and leaders of school-based student support teams, to identify evidence-based strategies, approaches, and practices that can positively influence students' mental health. This action guide describes six in-school…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Schools, Early Childhood Education, Middle Schools
Jarpe-Ratner, Elizabeth; Cleary, Mary; Chriqui, Jamie F. – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Strategies used by wellness teams (WTs) to foster local wellness policy (LWP) implementation have been documented, yet there remains a need to better understand how WTs respond to district-level LWP requirements, particularly when bundled with additional health-related policies. This study's goal was to explore how WTs implement…
Descriptors: Wellness, Health Promotion, Elementary School Students, School Districts
Sierra M. Trudel; Natalie R. Charamut; Spencer D. Perry; Lisa M. H. Sanetti; Jennifer M. Cavallari – Communique, 2024
There is a critical need to address educator health and well-being, yet only an average of 31% of schools offer workplace health and wellness promotion programs. As part of the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace -- a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Center of Excellence for Total Worker Health®…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Well Being, Teaching Conditions, Stress Management
McGann, Jamie; Meegan, Sarah; Woods, Catherine; Murtagh, Elaine; Duff, Christina; Belton, Sarahjane – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
In order for initiatives targeting physical activity in the school community to be effectively implemented, they need to 'make sense' from the school's perspective. That is, teachers need to see their value and feel confident that implementation will result in change. Teachers also need to feel competent in doing what's required of them to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Teacher Competencies, Self Esteem
Nash, Rose; Cruickshank, Vaughan; Pill, Shane; MacDonald, Abbey; Coleman, Cheryn; Elmer, Shandell – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: To ascertain teachers' articulation and experiences of navigating dilemmas that inhibit and/or enable the fostering of health literacy in primary school settings. Design: Qualitative analysis of teachers' written reflections on introducing health literacy into their school and classroom. Setting: Tasmania, Australia. Method: Eighty-four…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes
Joseph R. Anthes – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
A growing divide in physical activity amongst youth, fueled by the privatization of youth athletic programs, most negatively impacts underrepresented students. Intramural-sports programs hold the potential to engage more of our youth in physical activity, including those from marginalized populations. Utilizing a collective impact approach,…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, School Districts, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education
Ruini, Chiara; Vescovelli, Francesca; Facchini, Maria; Maset, Rossano – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2023
Various investigations have applied meditation protocols in the school context, with beneficial effects. Transcendental meditation, however, received little attention in primary school settings and few controlled studies are available. The present study is aimed: 1) to investigate the implementation of a school protocol (Quiet Time-QT) based on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Well Being, Health Promotion, Metacognition
Jacquelyn Potvin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Youth from low-income, racially and ethnically diverse families are at increased risk for academic challenges and nutritionally inadequate diets. Summer programs offer an opportunity to foster interest and engage students in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) education while addressing summer learning loss.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
