Physical health is the physical wellbeing of the school community and its members.
Environments that enhance student learning require attention to the physical health and safety needs of the entire school community. Research demonstrates that academic achievement improves in schools where students are physically healthy and feel physically safe. Ultimately, a healthy school community is the foundation for a comprehensive high-quality education.
Shows connection between school nutrition and social and emotional climate (SEC) and learning (SEL). This research brief describes the SEL core competencies and provides examples of school nutrition policies and practices that reflect each competency.
Features information, resources, and research related to student health to assist with the successful implementation of programs and efforts that address the physical and mental health of all students and promote healthy school environments. The website includes a variety of information and direct links, including federal grant program announcements, learning opportunities, evidence-based practices, capacity building strategies, training webinars, and research related to student health and healthy school environments.
Promotes physical wellness through infrastructure improvements, enforcement, tools, safety education, and incentives to encourage walking and bicycling to school. Includes an SRTS Guide along with simple strategies, such as the walking school bus, that schools can use to support bicycling and walking.
Examines how children across the United States were faring before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Identifies multi-year trends comparing statistics from 2010 to 2018 and utilizes this information to help shape policymakers, researchers, and advocates' work to build stronger futures for children, families, and communities.
Offers best practices for school employee wellness programs in an effort to improve both employees' and students' well-being - including ideas for programs that can be implemented with limited resources.
Offers the latest science on transmission risk, and the costs and benefits of opening schools during this time. Aids school administrators as they consider how to protect the health, safety, wellbeing of students, teachers, other school staff, families, and communities to prepare educating students this fall.
Tips to help plan for school, including in-person, virtual, and at-home learning. Outlines
Assists parents, caregivers, and guardians weigh the risks and benefits of available educational options to help them make decisions about sending their child back to school. Documents information on COVID-19 and why safely reopening schools is so critical.
Guides principles and mitigation strategies to use when school is open. Includes considerations meant to supplement—not replace—any state, local, territorial, or tribal health and safety laws, rules, and regulations with which schools must comply.
Clarifies appropriate mitigation strategies based on level of community transmission of COVID-19 and presence of COVID-19 cases within the school. Provides guidance for when confirmed cases have entered a school, regardless of the level of community transmission.
Provides in-depth knowledge to help adolescents develop healthy behaviors and reinforce healthy habits. Additionally, provides recommendations for how adults can help teens learn to make healthy food choices.
Highlights dangerous results of inhalants and informs teens with steps they can take to rise above the influence of this harmful solvent or other material.
Includes information about how HIV is spread and suggests strategies to prevent transmission.
