Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: An ASCD Action Tool

Pricing (Original or Canadian Edition) ASCD Member: $89.00 USD Nonmember: $109.00 USD

Empowering Educators, Empowering Students

Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: An ASCD Action Tool offers a practical strategy for structuring your school environment to support the development of students who have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to make healthy choices. The tool will assist you in creating a school that addresses the health and well-being of students and staff in evidence-based ways that support learning and teaching.

Specifically, this action tool will help you

• Meet guidelines and standards established by your state or provincial government.
• Meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture Local Wellness Policy requirements.
• Establish a school environment consistent with the World Health Organization's concept of health-promoting schools.
• Integrate best practices and methods of providing school health programming for a high-quality school.

Online Scoring with the Healthy School Report Card

In conjunction with the online scoring component of the Healthy School Report Card, which is part of this Web site, you will be able to use this action tool to provide your community with

• An evidence-based view of the quality of your school's health programming.
• A prioritized set of recommendations about the portions of your school health programming that either need additional work to become high quality or do not exist at all.
• Data analysis as well as guidance to help you incorporate recommendations into your school's improvement plan or into a separate school health improvement plan.

Making a Difference Together

Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: An ASCD Action Tool was developed to help schools engage stakeholders from the school and community in the assessment of their school environment and in the school improvement process.

The strategies contained in the tool are the result of data collected through school-community public health partnerships that participated in ASCD's Health in Education Initiative and from school and district research sites that used the Healthy School Report Card.

The Canadian edition of the action tool includes research, standards, and best practices from Canada's provinces and territories and takes the Canadian education, health, and community contexts into account.