2009 School Wellness Conference Update

The California School Boards Association, the California Department of Education and the California Department of Public Health will bring together a diverse group of school community leaders who play a role in creating sustainable healthy school environments. The conference will address critical health issues and their link to academic achievement, such as nutrition, physical education and activity, mental health, oral health, diabetes, indoor air quality, asthma and more.

Learn more about these events at http://swc.csba.org/

Learn how student wellness is linked to learning and student success
To see a fun and informative video about the upcoming School Wellness Conference that you can share with your colleagues, click here. You can also view this information on YouTube here.

2009 Keynote speakers

Dr. John Ratey, October 6
Dr. John Ratey is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. For more than a decade he taught residents and Harvard medical students as the assistant director of resident training at Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Dr. Ratey was the recipient of the 2006 Excellence in Advocacy award from the non-profit group PE4Life, for his work in promoting the adoption of regular, aerobic-based physical education. Most recently, Dr. Ratey authored SPARK: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. His groundbreaking research explores the connection between exercise and the brain’s performance.


Pedro Noguera, October 7
Pedro Noguera, offers a preview of his perspectives in an audio interview posted here.

Pedro Noguera is an urban sociologist professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University who focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions. At the School Wellness Conference, Noguera will address the need for schools and communities to adopt strategies that empower children and their families, as well as the importance of everyone in the community to collaborate.

Pre-Conference
Join us for the pre-conference, Finding common ground: Collaborating to prevent childhood obesity, on Monday, October 5, 2009. The pre-conference session will be complimentary to those who register for the conference. Seating is limited! Learn more about the pre-conference here.

Reduced rate!
The new School Wellness Conference room rate is $110 single/double, $130 triple, $150 quad plus applicable taxes. Call Marriott reservations at (800) 228-9290. Reference the School Wellness Conference and receive the conference rate of $139 single/double plus applicable taxes. Make hotel reservations early! The cut-off date for hotel reservations is September 13, 2009. Learn more here.