Panel 3: Healthy Students for a Better Tomorrow: Promoting Physical and Mental Well-Being in Schools
Location
Ballroom
Start Date
19-7-2018 1:00 PM
Description
Research shows that healthier students are better learners--they are more likely to attend school and better able to focus in class and perform well on tests. Academic success can also be impacted by factors like whether students feel safe in school, and how adults respond to perceived misbehavior. Unfortunately, school can be an alienating place for many students—a recent national survey of 5th through 12th graders found that only 59% reported feeling safe at school. This panel will explore some of the many ways that educators, community members, and policymakers can come together to produce better student outcomes in the Delta by supporting health and well-being in schools. Panelists on the panel will speak to a range of topics impacting physical and mental health such as nutrition and physical education, bullying, trauma-sensitivity, supportive school discipline, mental health and wraparound services, and environmental safety.
Moderator: Susana Cervantes. Delta Directions Consortium and Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center
Panelists: Valeria Hawkins. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Leader; Aisha Carson. Sunflower County Systems Change Project and ACLU of Mississippi; Danai Winters. Student, Clarksdale High School
Relational Format
Conference Proceeding
Recommended Citation
Cervantes, Susana; Hawkins, Valeria; Carson, Aisha; and Winters, Danai, "Panel 3: Healthy Students for a Better Tomorrow: Promoting Physical and Mental Well-Being in Schools" (2018). Delta Regional Forum. 21.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/dr_forum/2018/schedule/21
Panel 3: Healthy Students for a Better Tomorrow: Promoting Physical and Mental Well-Being in Schools
Ballroom
Research shows that healthier students are better learners--they are more likely to attend school and better able to focus in class and perform well on tests. Academic success can also be impacted by factors like whether students feel safe in school, and how adults respond to perceived misbehavior. Unfortunately, school can be an alienating place for many students—a recent national survey of 5th through 12th graders found that only 59% reported feeling safe at school. This panel will explore some of the many ways that educators, community members, and policymakers can come together to produce better student outcomes in the Delta by supporting health and well-being in schools. Panelists on the panel will speak to a range of topics impacting physical and mental health such as nutrition and physical education, bullying, trauma-sensitivity, supportive school discipline, mental health and wraparound services, and environmental safety.
Moderator: Susana Cervantes. Delta Directions Consortium and Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center
Panelists: Valeria Hawkins. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Leader; Aisha Carson. Sunflower County Systems Change Project and ACLU of Mississippi; Danai Winters. Student, Clarksdale High School
