ABOUT
All schools face unique challenges, however, school size, location, and socioeconomic factors present many opportunities to hinder or influence the health and wellbeing of our students.
Larger schools present unique challenges to our staff and students such as overcrowding, lack of engagement, little notoriety, and high dropout rates. These challenges promote additional stress contributing to poor health behaviors and, eventually, poor health outcomes negatively influencing the quality of one's life.
However, on the contrary, there are also many advantages associated with attending a larger school, such as greater access to extracurricular activities and events which helps build peer and professional networks to support the healthy development of our students to ensure success.
THE TEAM
Stakeholders guide development and implementation processes.
Developing a team that is committed to change can enhance the planning of services, resource allocation, and assessment processes to meet the needs of diverse individuals to positively impact student social, mental, emotional, and physical health.
Principal
Serves as the authoritative figure to propel action by supporting school and community engagement. Additionally, he is responsible for motivating stakeholders in the planning, implementation, and assessment phases to deliver and update social support opportunities based on continuous assessments.
School Nurse
Serves as the certified health professional in collecting and assessing student health needs to promote awareness and advocacy. Additionally, she is able to identify trends through analyzing data collected from various health assessments to communicate student health needs, challenges, and opportunities.
Physical Education Teacher
Serves as an advocate for overall student health. She plays a key role in developing and updating school and community opportunities and goals. Additionally, she provides educational opportunities within her Health curriculum to provide information to her fellow colleagues ad students to properly identify signs and symptoms of health issues.
Community Events Coordinator
Works alongside the school district to build strong connections by coordinating and creating a network of available and accessible services within the community to address the needs of our students, families, and schools to minimize gaps in opportunities.
References
Great Schools. (2020). La Moille community unit school district 303. https://www.greatschools.org/illinois/la-moille/la-moille-community-unit-school-district-303/#Academics
Kokemuller, N. (2019). The disadvantages of large schools. https://www.theclassroom.com/disadvantages-large-high-schools-1437.html