42 min
Making Schools Healthy Places for Learning Our Children Can't Wait
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- Education
Joe Bishop addresses school health with experts Alex Mays and Rochelle Davis.
As parents and a part of the Healthy Schools Campaign, Rochelle and Alex share how they became passionate for school health. From pesticides to sports to chronic health issues, they look at how such factors directly impact students’ ability to learn.
How do we define school health? What is the role of policy when it comes to school health? Find out on this episode of Our Children Can’t Wait.
Special Guest: Rochelle Davis is the Founder of the Healthy Schools Campaign and served as its President and CEO for over 20 years. Rochelle has extensive knowledge and experience in developing cross-sector partnerships to address system level change to support healthy schools, as well as policy development and advocacy at the local, state and federal levels.
Alex Mays was most recently the Senior National Program Director at the Healthy Schools Campaign. Her work focuses on changing policies and systems at the local, state and federal levels to advance school health and wellness. Her recent efforts include working with states and school districts across the country to strengthen their school Medicaid programs and building partnerships between school districts and health care systems to meet student health needs
Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is the Creative Director, and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.
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Joe Bishop addresses school health with experts Alex Mays and Rochelle Davis.
As parents and a part of the Healthy Schools Campaign, Rochelle and Alex share how they became passionate for school health. From pesticides to sports to chronic health issues, they look at how such factors directly impact students’ ability to learn.
How do we define school health? What is the role of policy when it comes to school health? Find out on this episode of Our Children Can’t Wait.
Special Guest: Rochelle Davis is the Founder of the Healthy Schools Campaign and served as its President and CEO for over 20 years. Rochelle has extensive knowledge and experience in developing cross-sector partnerships to address system level change to support healthy schools, as well as policy development and advocacy at the local, state and federal levels.
Alex Mays was most recently the Senior National Program Director at the Healthy Schools Campaign. Her work focuses on changing policies and systems at the local, state and federal levels to advance school health and wellness. Her recent efforts include working with states and school districts across the country to strengthen their school Medicaid programs and building partnerships between school districts and health care systems to meet student health needs
Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is the Creative Director, and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.
Join the CTS mailing list: new research, events, tools & resources, straight to your inbox.
Support the work of CTS with a financial gift here.
Follow CTS on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn, and share your thoughts with us by emailing ctschools@ucla.edu.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
42 min