Healthy Schools works alongside other Jeffco Departments to ensure all students have learning environments where they feel supported, healthy, safe and engaged. Many Healthy School Teams choose goals around increasing positive school climate.
Here are a few of our favorite partners:
Random Acts of Kindness
This foundation believes the positive effects of kindness are experienced in the brain of everyone who witnessed the act, improving their mood and making them significantly more likely to “pay it forward.” This means one good deed in a crowded area can create a domino effect and improve the day of dozens of people!
Visit the website to download our FREE K-8 lesson plans, lead a kindness project or form a kindness club at your school. Our curriculum features developmentally appropriate, standards-aligned lessons that teach kids important Social Emotional (SEL) skills
Day without Hate
Day Without Hate is a student led, grassroots organization that promotes nonviolence, unity, and respect in our schools. After the shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007, students at Standley Lake High School asked their classmates to wear white in order to show a commitment and trust in each other to make their school a safer place. The day was an overwhelming success.
Since then, students across Colorado and the nation have taken this incredibly positive day to their communities to say that we will not tolerate violence or hate, and we will reach out to friends and acquaintances and say, "We're all in this together."
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