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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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
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
JennaSumner
Director of Health and Wellness
University of Texas - B.A. Fairleigh Dickinson University - M.A.
CrystalMcCreary
Health Educator K-12
Stanford University - B.A. The American Conservatory Theatre - M.F.A.
LisaMelore
Admin Assistant for Health & Wellness
Cornell University - B.S.
GeoffreyPerry
Middle School Health Teacher
Pennsylvania State University - B.A. George Washington University - M.Ed. University of Oxford - M.Phil.