High School Courses

Health & Wellness

The Dalton Health and Wellness Program is designed to meet student developmental needs in their Middle and High School years. Various health topics comprise the curriculum, categorized under four pillars: nutrition, sexuality, mental health and substance use. To supplement the Health and Wellness curriculum, assembly guest speakers, enrichment sessions with experts in current topics and parent information coffees and media presentations complete the program. 

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  • Health 10

    This health course is structured to provide students with a body of knowledge regarding relevant health issues to help navigate through the various challenges in mental health, substance use, nutrition, and sexual health including relationships. The course will investigate health concerns prevalent in school and the U.S through self-reflection and media literacy. Because health is not equally experienced among all of us, health is a social justice issue and will, therefore, be taught through that lens. The course will consider the ways that systemic barriers prevent all of us from being healthy and challenge those barriers through acts of allyship. It is the hope of the course that students will become well-equipped physically, emotionally, mentally, and socially to make healthy choices.

    Grading is Pass/Fail
    Fall or Spring Semester Course
  • Health 12

    This class informs our seniors on current, relevant and meaningful health topics. Experts in the fields of mental health, sexual consent, decision-making, neuroscience, nutrition, physical health and self-defense, bring the concept of learning health into a class lab. The goal, as with much of health education, is to provide accurate information and assist students in learning advanced coping skills, methods of harm reduction, and to promote self-efficacy. Senior year is a milestone and graduation marks the transition into a new phase of independence. The goal of this course is to enable students to not only define “healthy,” but how to determine and incorporate what is “healthy” for each of them.

    Grading is Pass/Fail

Faculty

  • Photo of Jenna Sumner
    Jenna Sumner
    Director of Health and Wellness
    University of Texas - B.A.
    Fairleigh Dickinson University - M.A.
  • Photo of Crystal McCreary
    Crystal McCreary
    Health Educator K-12
    Stanford University - B.A.
    The American Conservatory Theatre - M.F.A.
  • Lisa Melore
    Admin Assistant for Health & Wellness
    Cornell University - B.S.
  • Photo of Geoffrey Perry
    Geoffrey Perry
    Middle School Health Teacher
    Pennsylvania State University - B.A.
    George Washington University - M.Ed.
    University of Oxford - M.Phil.
(Grades K-3) 53 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
General: (212) 423-5200 | Admissions: (212) 423-5463
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(Gr. 4 Dalton East & PE Center) 200 East 87th Street
New York, NY 10128
General: (212) 423-5200 | Admissions: (212) 423-5262
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(Grade 5-12) 108 East 89th Street
New York, NY 10128
General: (212) 423-5200 | Admissions: (212) 423-5262
General: info@dalton.org | Admissions: admissionsmshs@dalton.org