Introduction: a wish for the good life -- Part 1. Back to whole. What does it mean to educate the whole child? -- Healthy and ready to learn -- Part 2. Promoting a healthy life. Finding our way back to healthy eating: a conversation with David A. Kessler -- A supersize problem -- Sleep: the E-ZZZ intervention -- A place for healthy risk-taking -- Keeping teachers healthy -- Part 3. Protecting students, working with bullies. Bullying: not just a kid thing -- Civility speaks up -- Words can hurt forever -- Fights like a girl -- How we treat one another in schoo -- R U safe? -- Part 4. Helping students cope with life challenges. Success with less stress -- Helping self-harming students -- Reaching the fragile student -- Peers helping peers -- Silence Is Golden -- When a student dies -- Part 5. Teaching values, building character. Democracy at risk -- "Hobo" Is not a respectful word -- No more haves and have-nots -- Waging peace -- Part 6. Creating healthy and safe schools. Centers of hope -- A full-service school fulfills its promise --A coordinated school health plan -- Coordinated school health: getting it all together -- Part 7. Rounding out the curriculum. Teaching strategies for naturalist intelligence -- Teaching strategies for intrapersonal intelligence -- Teaching strategies for bodily-kinesthetic intelligence -- Appendix -- Study guide.
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This e-book, a collection of articles from Educational Leadership and other ASCD publications, explores what it means to foster health and safety for students. Knowing that what we teach kids today will shape their future well-being, the authors look at the issues from many angles, addressing both physical and mental health and safety. This fourth in a four-book series of e-books on educating the whole child recognizes that although health and safety are not just curriculum topics, they definitely should be formal parts of learning.