https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm Made with love en-us 2020-01-14 23:14:38 UTC 2025-10-20 17:22:05 UTC hello@padlet.com maddy_gilligan https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431624437 "What can I do as a teacher or school to encourage healthy eating habits and to be active?"

This article focuses on how school communities can encourage healthy eating for their students. Strategies for schools to encourage good nutritional habits can include, but are not limited to developing a whole school food policy, offering healthy foods in school canteens, providing clean, cool-water fountains, developing a school vegetable garden, and offering regular snack breaks for students to eat fruit and vegetables.


]]> 2020-01-14 23:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431624437 maddy_gilligan https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431624539 "School-Based Programs to Increase Physical Activity"

Increasing physical activity in schools, as mentioned in this article, can include programs like daily recess, incorporating physical activity into regular classroom lessons, offering before and after school programs. Additionally, PE class length can be extended and fitness activities can be increased and expanded upon. The article also comments on how to increase opportunities for physical activities, state-level or district level can make changes to the school day. ]]> 2020-01-14 23:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431624539 maddy_gilligan https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431624646 "Child Safety and Injury Prevention"

This article focuses on reducing the risk of injuries by making changes to your environment. Child safety strategies include areas in preventing drowning, falls, window safety, preventing burns, preventing poisoning, preventing scalds, microwave safety, choking and harm caused by swallowing objects, and safety with button batteries, blinds and curtain rods. The article also includes information regarding child first aid courses, fire safety courses, and where to get help. ]]> 2020-01-14 23:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431624646 maddy_gilligan https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431624993 "Promoting Students' Physical Health and Wellness"

This article details examples on how to promote students' physical health and wellness and also includes what to avoid. Examples on how to promote physical health and wellness include encouraging hand washing, encouraging students to cover their mouths when they cough or sneeze but also leading by example and doing this as well. The article also mentions that tissues and hand sanitizer can also be readily available. Teachers should also recognize signs of sickness as early as possible. The CDC also advises that students should not be rewarded with junk food and that they should also have water bottles as a way to encourage hydration. ]]> 2020-01-14 23:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431624993 maddy_gilligan https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431625166 "How Schools Can Help Students Stay Tobacco-Free"

This article mentions several ways that schools can act to reduce youth smoking and other tobacco use. Strategies can include forbidding tobacco use by students, staff and visitors on school grounds, providing comprehensive tobacco prevention education, providing program-specific training for teachers, involving parents and families in school efforts, offering interactive tobacco-free projects for students, helping tobacco-using students and staff quit, adopting a firm school policy of not accepting any funding, curricula, or other maters from tobacco companies, and evaluating the school's tobacco-free programs at regular intervals. ]]> 2020-01-14 23:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431625166 maddy_gilligan https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431625307 "Sexual Health Education in Schools"

This article discusses and summarizes what a sexual health education should look like and mentions that the program should include characteristics including building personal and social competence, addressing social pressures and influences, and focusing on specific behavioral outcomes. The article also mentions that incorporating learning strategies, teaching methods and materials that are culturally inclusive is important. Ultimately, a model with a focus on human rights, gender equality, access to healthcare services, and critical thinking will create an emerging model for sexual health education. ]]> 2020-01-14 23:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431625307 maddy_gilligan https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431625332 "Addressing Grief: Tips for Teachers and Administrators" 

This article offers tips and advise to teachers and administrators to address grief for students of all ages. The article includes general tips including discussing death in developmentally appropriate terms for students and using words such as death or dying to avoid euphemisms such as "they went away". Tips also include being sensitive to cultural differences of students and understanding a variety of feelings are normal. Maintaining a normal routine and engaging students in regular activities are also advised. ]]> 2020-01-14 23:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431625332 maddy_gilligan https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431628800 "How Can Schools Promote Positive Mental Health"

This article talks about focusing on young people's mental health around the world. While specifically focusing on mental health in UK schools, strong points were made about the issues affecting young people in 2018, including exam pressures, the modern technological world, growing social media, LGBTQ+, and demands on young people. The article encourages teachers and staff in schools to promote positive mental health by encouraging social time, running lunchtime clubs, having an open-door policy,  making mental health know, and organizing a wellness week. ]]> 2020-01-14 23:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/maddy_gilligan/fpz8jzup8cxm/wish/431628800