ERIC Number: ED593239
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Publication Date: 2018-Oct
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Creating Policies to Support Healthy Schools: Policymaker, Educator, and Student Perspectives. Publication #2018-47
Solomon, Bonnie; Katz, Emily; Steed, Heather; Temkin, Deborah
Child Trends
Initiatives focused on improving aspects of students' well-being in schools--such as addressing childhood obesity, preventing bullying, and restricting schools' use of exclusionary discipline--are gaining momentum. However, such efforts are often implemented in silos, without recognition of their interconnections. To advance the common goal of improving social, health, and academic outcomes for all students, coordinated efforts that integrate multiple components of healthy school environments are needed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model presents a framework illustrating the interconnected nature of 10 elements of a healthy school environment: health education; physical education and activity; nutrition environment and services; health services; counseling, psychological, and social services; social and emotional climate; physical environment; employee wellness; family engagement; and community engagement. This study was built on the need to better integrate the WSCC framework in policy and the recognition that policymakers prioritize issues they see as critical given finite resources. The study aimed to identify policy opportunities to promote the overall WSCC framework through interviews and focus groups with state policymakers, educators, and students.
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Health, Mental Health, School Culture, Trauma, Stress Variables, Anxiety, Social Development, Emotional Development, School Personnel, Teacher Characteristics, Stakeholders, Educational Policy
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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