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Fitness Through Play: How to Reimagine Physical Education for Lifelong Wellness

SHAPE America

You can embed this through goal-setting practices like the FITT principle to guide students toward personalized, achievable fitness goals. Highlight Mental, Social and Emotional Benefits Fitness through play benefits various dimensions of health and wellness beyond physical. Thats the real foundation for lifelong habits.

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5 Simple Ways Principals Can Prioritize Health and Wellness This School Year

SHAPE America

As a principal, I certainly do as well. And, despite clear research demonstrating the positive impacts of health and wellness on academic achievement , schools may be tempted to put critically important physical activity programs on the back burner. Add wellness events onto the school calendar and honor them. Don’t do it!

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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

SHAPE America

During that year, I had a well-meaning principal who told our staff, “If it’s not related to math or reading, it’s potentially on the chopping block.” We even built a mountain bike park on our school grounds for students to enjoy because we recognize how bikes can be used to help our students achieve success.

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Remission Achieved Quickly for Girl With Complex Crohn’s Disease

Stanford Childrens

It started with genetic testing to rule out a genetic cause for her Crohns disease, as well as tests to exclude an immune deficiency. Abbys holistic care included meeting with IBD Nutritional Therapies early on to find a diet that would work well with her medicines, as well as receiving support from an IBD-specialized social worker.

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Healthy Kids, Brighter Futures: Why Wellness Belongs at the Heart of Education

PE for Parents

Every Kid Healthy Week Celebrate your efforts to improve kids’ health and well-being with an event that gets families and communities involved in the fun. But for that potential to flourish, children need more than textbooks and tests—they need environments that nurture their physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Case A, et al.

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What Resiliency Means as a Marine

SHAPE America

I’ve learned to protect my mental well-being by implementing self-care practices that align with my values. Be sure to take things one step at a time and focus on small, achievable goals rather than trying to tackle everything at once. RESILIENT ADVICE Setbacks and challenges are natural.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Understanding Protective Factors for Promoting Children’s Well-being

Relentless School Nurse

Photo credit: CDC Protective Factors Protective factors are individual or environmental characteristics that promote the health and emotional well-being of children and adolescents. Here are the 5 protective factors for schools and their significance in promoting children’s well-being.

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