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Components of MCSD's School & Health Support Systems
The components of school and health support systems serve to main functions. First , schools provide structures that give students knowledge and skills to make decisions that positively impact their health and social-emotional well-being. Schools engage students in health, physical education, and social-emotional lessons and activities from prekindergarten through high school. Second, schools provide services to meet students' nutrition, physical and behavioral needs. Services are tiered and support the needs of individual students and the student body as a whole. They prove partnerships with families and collaborate with community organizations. The components, circling around the whole child tenets and practices, in ten equally distributed segments, represent structures to build lifelong health skills and provides services to meet the whole child's needs.
Supporting Students in Developing Health Behaviors
Supporting Students in Developing Health Behaviors
The following components demonstrate specific skills students can acquire to support their own health and well-being. Through dedicated health and physical education, structured physical activities, and social-emotional competencies, students develop lifelong skills to maintain healthy bodies and minds.
Services to Students and Families
Services to Students and Families
Meeting the needs of the whole child means providing nutrition, and physical and behavioral health services to students and their families. Our school offers child nutrition programs, including breakfast, lunch, and healthy snacks. Physical and mental health services are provided by licensed school personnel and through community partnerships with health services organizations.
Components of a Safe and Supportive School Environment
Components of a Safe and Supportive School Environment
Students learn best and thrive in safe and supportive learning environments. The elements of a safe and supportive learning environment include the physical environment that incorporates school safety measures as well as the overall climate and culture of the school buildings. It also integrates the well-being and health of its staff.
Engaging Others to Support Student Wellness and Success
Engaging Others to Support Student Wellness and Success
Students benefit from knowing they are surrounded by caring adults in school, at home, and within their local communities. The Marion CSD works to engage families and communities to best align efforts to support students' needs.
Family Engagement: Family engagement is a school's explicit inclusion of families in their children's learning and educational experiences. Marion is working to create systematic and multiple ways for our families to engage and contribute to their children's education and school. Our schools will provide family engagement opportunities that build strong relationships, increase two-way communication between home and school, give families information needed to support learning at home, and involve families in decision-making. Family engagement is a shared responsibility between school staff members, community partners, and families and should be proactive and reciprocal in nature. Marion families will be given the opportunity to provide feedback on the district's whole child practices and programs each year.
Community Involvement: School partnerships with community groups, organizations, and local businesses are essential to share resources and support students' learning, development, and well-being. Marion's students and families benefit when school leaders and staff solicit and coordinate information, resources, and services available from community-based organizations, businesses, cultural and civic organizations, social services agencies, faith-based organizations, health clinics, and colleges and universities. Collaborating to ensure resources are accessible and available to all is essential to effect community partnerships. Our local community agencies have a wealth of knowledge, resources, and services that can ensure Marion families and students are connected with supports to address their health, safety, college and career readiness, learning, and development.
Our Wellness Policy
Our Wellness Policy
The district is committed to the optimal physical and academic development of every student. For students to achieve personal, academic, developmental and social success, we must create positive, safe, and health-promoting learning environments at every level, in every setting, throughout the school year. The district will strive to align health and wellness efforts with other school improvement endeavors to ensure the optimal health and academic success for all students.
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