New data collected from youth in grades 9-12 that highlight health-related behaviors will be shared. The efforts that Nebraska schools have implemented to address physical & mental health and school climate are paying off with reduced youth risk factors. Learn about the resources, tools, and mini-grant funding from the Office of Coordinated Student Support Services on mental, physical health, and safety of students to enhance learning and achievement.
This session will center on body confidence, self-esteem, and appearance discrimination and its impact on students, particularly middle grades. Participants will become acquainted with the Dove Self-Esteem Project and gain access to the Confident Me! Program and other free evidence -based resources that can be used to enhance their health education programs.
Supercharging Skills-Based Health Education: How Students Learn Best! This all-in-one health education session will place you in the best health classroom ever! Learn active engagement techniques and strategies to enhance health education all aligned to SHAPE America’s National Standards. Educators know that students learn best when they are actively engaged throughout a lesson. See and learn “supercharging" techniques today that you can use in the classroom tomorrow!
Schools play an important role in promoting the health and safety of children and adolescents by helping them establish lifelong health patterns. Injury prevention and safety is an important topic to teach for prevention and establishing safety behaviors. Such safety behaviors include learning how to wear a bike helmet, properly wearing a seat belt, hazards of distracted driving, crossing the road properly and understanding local laws/rules. Attendees will learn about the various injury prevention topics that can be integrated into health courses and supportive resources that can be used in the classroom.
