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National Healthy Schools Day
Activities for Healthy Schools Day and Beyond.
Adopt a "Safety Bill of Rights" for your school.
- Parents, educators, and health professionals owe it to children to teach safety and teach safely.
- Every child has a right to an environmentally safe and healthy home and school.
- Schools should be role models for environmental safety and environmentally responsible behavior.
- Everyone has a right to know about
unsafe and unhealthy school conditions and to be involved in efforts to
create and maintain safe conditions.
See more Bring the Lessons of 1937 to Your School
Feed Your Heroic Imagination
The social sciences have not answered many of the questions about why some people act heroically in certain situations, while other people do not. However, we believe that an important factor that may encourage heroic action is the stimulation of "The Heroic Imagination" -- the capacity to imagine facing physically or socially risky situations, to struggle with the hypothetical problems these situations generate, and to consider one's actions and the consequences (Franco & Zimbardo, 2007).
By considering these issues in advance, the individual becomes more prepared to act when and if a moment that calls for heroism arises -- a moment to act when most others are passive. — Matt Landon, et al. Is Lei Feng (雷锋) Still a Modern Hero?: A Consideration of Heroic Action in the Context of Culture
There is a hero in your
area.
It could be you.
Feed Your Heroic
Imagination
The Hero Construction
Company Matt Langdon is the founder of The Hero Construction
Company. He writes for an adult audience at The Hero Handbook, on how to become a hero and change the
world. He curates The Gallery of Heroes — the internet’s best list of
heroes. Matt has been working with the idea of heroes to create positive
change in kids and adults alike with one of the most well known names in
psychology, Dr. Phil Zimbardo – Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. His
work has been featured in Dr. Zimbardo’s TED talks on heroism. (The Heroic Imagination Project)
Giraffe Heroes Project is a
national nonprofit that since 1984 has been honoring the
risk-takers, people who are largely unknown, people who have the courage to
stick their necks out for the common good, in the US and around the world. www.giraffe.org
The Gloria Barron Prize for
Young Heroes, founded by author T. A. Barron in honor of his mother,
celebrates outstanding young leaders. Each year the Barron Prize honors 25
inspiring young people who have made a significant positive difference to
people and our planet. www.barronprize.org/
Giving Voice to Values: How to SpeakYour Mind when You Know What's Right by Mary C.
Gentile Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0300161182. Review: By CSRwire
Contributing Writer Elaine Cohen ...Truly embedding a culture of
ethics which compels every individual to take personal responsibility and act
ethically in every situation is what makes it all work. This book offers
practical advice on how to "build the muscles" to speak and act, plan
"voicing values," "craft scripts" and generally be prepared
for a range of situations in which bold action is required. As the author says,
"It is not about deciding what the right thing to do is, but rather about
how to get it done." For more information about this book, please
visit www.givingvoicetovaluesthebook.com
The Gift of Fear By Gavin De Becker. Learn how to act on your
internal survival signals to protect yourself from violence, abuse and the
hazards and threats imposed by others. Although written for potential
victims of stalking and violence, it is useful and empowering information for
anyone who perceives a threat in a situation that others do not acknowledge or
validate.
Healthy Schools Day April 7, 2015.
Parents can't take it for granted
that schools are the healthy places and safe havens we expect them to
be. Too many schools, old and new, create or ignore poor ventilation,
bad sanitation, and many health and safety code violations. For example,
the US EPA estimates that nearly 33,000 middle and high schools have
outdated or improperly stored explosives and other hazardous chemicals
in maintenance closets, labs and classrooms. It takes enormous courage,
persistence and creativity to overcome the status quo of indifference or
limited resources.
Healthy Schools Day reminds us to support the
leaders and join the partnerships working to protect children from
unhealthy and hazardous school conditions.
Read about Healthy Kids
Heroes at Heroes 2004 - 2015 (http://tinyurl.com/TX1937Hero).
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National Healthy Schools Day
http://www.nationalhealthyschoolsday.org/
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 and all week long!
National Healthy
Schools Day is coordinated by Healthy
Schools Network in cooperation with US
EPA and promotes the use of EPA's IAQ
Tools for Schools guidance as well
as other EPA environmental health guidelines
and programs for schools and children’s
health.
Participate locally, in your city or state, or nationally! Become
a new or continuing organizational partner for 2013. Email us for
information on how your school or group can be recognized!
See
the free online activity tools and suggestions, such as the all-new
Healthy Schools Day State/City Proclamation/Resolution toolkit, or the
Take Back Your IAQ Classroom Checklist. Visit our website for more
ideas.
Two free informational conference calls for new and returning partners:
Thursday, February 28th at 4:00pm EST.
Tuesday, March 5th at 12pm EST.
http://www.nationalhealthyschoolsday.org/
