This Web site is designed to assist your efforts to attain the vision of a healthy school community. The site contains articles about healthy school communities and links to resources that will be updated regularly. It also contains the online scoring component of Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: An ASCD Action Tool.
ASCD's Healthy School Communities is part of a large, multiyear plan to shift public dialogue about education from an academic focus to a whole child approach that encompasses all factors required for successful student outcomes.
ASCD is recasting the definition of a successful learner—moving from one whose achievement is measured solely by academic tests to one who is knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, civically engaged, prepared for economic self-sufficiency, and ready for the world beyond formal schooling.
As a part of this mission, the Healthy School Communities effort serves as a community-building resource for schools and communities that work together to create healthy environments that support learning and teaching. It also provides a space for networking and sharing of resources, ideas, and practices that encourage the ongoing promotion of a coordinated approach to school health programming and policy within school communities.