SPI and many other partners are sponsoring the third annual Healthy Schools Summit, which is scheduled for Thursday, May 28th and Friday, May 29th, 2009 at the Seattle Airport Marriot in Seatac, WA.
We are seeking presentations related to topics including:
nutrition
physical education
health education
health services
counseling and support services
healthy school environment
health promotion for staff, and
family and community involvement.
In addition, we seek proposals on issues such as:
Conflict resolution
Connections between health and learning
Closing achievement and opportunity gaps
Cultural responsiveness
Health advisory committees, including effective meeting facilitation and group process
Prevention and intervention
Safety
Social and emotional learning
Sustainability (environmental, social, economic)
Systems thinking, complexity, and change
Trauma & resiliency
Whole person development (including arts, music, dance, etc.)
Youth and student engagement and involvement
Other
Please consider submitting a proposal to talk about your work, and/or please share with others who you think should be involved in this exciting opportunity to help engage students, families and communities to improve school health and learning.
For more information about school health, please visit: www.healthyschoolswa.org
If you have questions about the conference or the RFP, please contact Greg Williamson, Program Supervisor, at [email protected].
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