School Wellness Weekly: Develop Policies Your Community Can Support
As a member or supporter of a School Wellness Council, it is your responsibility to consider, develop, and implement plans that support and sustain key wellness components important to your school...
View ArticleSchool Wellness Weekly: Celebrate Community Wellness
Last Sunday, more than 200 family members joined over 125 student-athletes and staff at the 23rd annual Adaptive Winter Games at Beach Channel Educational Campus, where students with physical and...
View ArticleSchool Wellness Weekly, Portals and Wellness Plans
The School Wellness Works Portal was created so New York City schools could best manage all of their school wellness needs and information in one place, including the ability to identify, access, and...
View ArticleSchool Wellness Weekly, Summer, At Last
It's the time of year when we honor this school year's achievements (see SWC Celebration highlights below) by planning even more ambitiously for the next one so our students can be as healthy as...
View ArticleSchool Wellness Weekly 1.19.16
Parent Engagement and Wellness As the second half of the year gets underway, the Chancellor’s continues to emphasize fundamental ways, like expanded language access services, to make schools welcoming...
View ArticleSchool Wellness Weekly 2.09.16
2016 Poster Contest Now Open! It’s time for your students to show how creative they can be when promoting the benefits of eating nutritious food, being physically fit, and getting adequate sleep (at...
View ArticleSchool Wellness Weekly 03.04.16
Wellness Poster Contest Deadline Extended There’s still time for your students to showcase their creativity and champion healthy bodies and minds in school by submitting a design to the 2016 School...
View ArticleSchool Wellness Weekly 03.28.16
Office of School Wellness Programs April is Substance Abuse Awareness Month Current research shows that substance abuse prevention starts in early childhood, underscoring how essential it is that...
View ArticleSchool Wellness Weekly 04.13.16
Office of School Wellness Programs Get Students Talking, Get Students Tested: STI Awareness and Prevention Youth between the ages of 15 and 24 make up nearly half of the 20 million cases of sexually...
View ArticleSchool Wellness Weekly 05.19.16
Office of School Wellness Programs Spring Professional Planning Means Focused Instruction in the Fall May is nearly over, and any student can tell you exactly how few days we have left in the school...
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