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Brian Dauenhauer; Jaimie McMullen; Jennifer Krause; Taemin Ha; Lisa Paulson; Veronica Becerrra; Jessica Pena; Bryanna Mieles – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
Within a whole-of-school approach to student wellness, comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAPs) offer opportunities for physical activity before, during, and after the school day. However, to successfully influence behavior and fully reap the physical, cognitive, and psychological benefits of an active lifestyle, schools must…
Descriptors: School Culture, Educational Change, Wellness, Physical Activities
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Ayala 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
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2021
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has exacerbated existing inequities and inadequacies across a range of social structures, including our nation's education system. The pandemic has also had a more damaging impact on communities and people of color, including many who already faced health challenges. Congress has provided significant federal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, School Closing
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2021
President Biden is committed to seeking and providing the necessary resources to support the safe operation of institutions of higher education (IHEs) and addressing the ongoing impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education students, adult education students, faculty, and staff. In Volume 3 of this Handbook, a series to support…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, College Students
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Wolf, Lesley; Vigna, Abra J.; Inzeo, Paula Tran; Ceraso, Marion; Wolff, Tom – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Policy, systems, and environmental change are now widely accepted as critical to sustaining improvements in community health. Evidence suggests that such systems-level change is most effective when driven by community-based partnerships. Yet, after more than three decades of building community-based partnership work, health inequities have…
Descriptors: Public Health, Community Involvement, Social Differences, Case Studies
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Cornish, Disa; Askelson, Natoshia; Golembiewski, Elizabeth – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHKA) required schools to make changes to meals provided to children. Rural school districts have limited resources, with increased obesity rates and local food insecurity. In this study we sought to understand the perceptions of rural food service directors and the barriers to implementing…
Descriptors: Food Service, Rural Areas, Health Promotion, Child Health
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Ondrasek, Naomi; Edgerton, Adam K.; Bland, Jennifer A. – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
As districts in California have opened for the 2021-22 school year, they have faced the challenging task of keeping students learning safely in person in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which intensified right before schools opened with the spread of the Delta variant of the virus. This brief compiles preliminary information on reopening for…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Educational Change
Lisa Paulson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Quality physical education, pivotal for the development of physical, social, and emotional skills for an active and healthy lifestyle (Society of Health and Physical Educators [SHAPE] America, 2014; United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], 2021), has been globally marginalized, necessitating a heightened focus on…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Policy, Undergraduate Students, Educational Quality
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Cavioni, Valeria; Grazzani, Ilaria; Ornaghi, Veronica; Agliati, Alessia; Gandellini, Sabina; Cefai, Carmel; Camilleri, Liberato; Bartolo, Paul; Tatalovic Vorkapic, Sanja; Golob, Lana; Poulou, Maria; Martinsone, Baiba; Supe, Inga; Simões, Celeste; Lebre, Paula; Colomeischi, Adina; Rusu, Petruta; Acostoaie, Lidia; Vintur, Tatiana; Conte, Elisabetta – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
In the last two years, a growing number of studies have focused on the promotion of students' mental health to address the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, less studies have been conducted on sustaining teachers' mental health which has been affected by the sudden changes in online teaching and the difficulties in keeping and…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Promotion, Teacher Student Relationship, Stress Variables
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Houlahan, Bridget – Journal of School Nursing, 2018
This study investigated the origin and implementation of school nursing in New York City, using traditional historical methods with a social history framework. The intent of this research was to produce a comprehensive historical analysis of school nursing at the turn of the 20th century in order to provide a historical framework to promote the…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Nursing, School Health Services, Educational History
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Peralta, Louisa R.; Rowling, Louise – Health Education Journal, 2018
Background: The development of adolescent health literacy through school-based programmes is attracting international interest. However, there exist competing definitions, models and understandings of how these programmes should be conceptualised, implemented and evaluated. Australian Curriculum documents such as those relating to health and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Health Services, Health Promotion, Health Education
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Childs, Tasha M.; Brown, Elizabeth Levine; Brown, Naomi; Iachini, Aidyn L.; Phillippo, Kate; Galib, Linda; Parker, Audra; Fujimoto, Ken – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Understanding teachers' appraisals of student wellness services and supports during COVID-19 is essential to strengthening services and improving student health outcomes. This mixed-method study aimed to examine US PK-12 teachers' appraisals of student wellness services and supports during COVID-19. Methods: This study focuses on…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Wellness, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Centeio, Erin Elizabeth; Somers, Cheryl Leigh; Kulik, Noel; Garn, Alex C.; Shen, Bo; Martin, Jeffrey; Fahlman, Mariane M.; Mccaughtry, Nathan A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Background: The relationship between physical activity (PA) and academic achievement has received much attention given the recent push to increase children's PA levels through Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs (CSPAP). Methods: In this study we followed 214 urban elementary students through an 8-month healthy school transformation…
Descriptors: Correlation, Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Rooney, Laura E.; Videto, Donna M.; Birch, David A. – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Schools, school districts, and communities seeking to implement the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model should carefully and deliberately select planning, implementation, and evaluation strategies. Methods: In this article, we identify strategies, steps, and resources within each phase that can be integrated into…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Health Promotion
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Stewart, Donald – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of an Australian health promoting schools (HPS) project to identify key features of the concept of resilience and how it can be used in a school setting to develop and strengthen protective factors in young people, as a mechanism for improving social functioning and reducing involvement in…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Comprehensive School Health Education, Literature Reviews, Grade 3
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