“Lori not only helped me update one of my health education units, but she reminded me of why I became a health teacher!”
Health Education Teacher, NYS AHPERD Conference, November 2022
Services provided to assist in the development of Health Education/Wellness Programs include:
- Revising your health education lessons/curriculum to be skill-based with age- and developmentally-appropriate health content
- Evaluating your current district curricula and wellness programs
- Creating and/or updating district policies and documents for wellness curriculum and programs (including backwards design and guidance documents)
- Ensuring updated terminology and content is in your health education program
- Implementing program evaluations for your needs
- Developing wellness policies aligning with your community’s needs
- Working with educators, administrators, and families to ensure the best curricula and programs are provided to children and youth
Services provided for Professional Learning and Development within schools include:
- Updating health education curriculum including Social & Emotional Learning
- Transitioning to updated sex education lessons supporting consent and healthy personal relationships
- Creating student-centered lessons and assessments
- Evaluating and revising assessments in Health Education Classrooms
- Supporting Personal Learning Communities
- Revitalizing Wellness Educators in the PreK-12 Setting
- Staying positive and effective during hybrid and online teaching/learning
If your school is ready to improve the health and well-being of your students, please reach out to Lori for more information, including curriculum outlines and pricing. Initial consultation of up to 30 minutes is no charge.
Contact Lori through email at superhealthcrusader@gmail.com OR schoolhealtheducators@gmail.com.
A fun fact about Lori – Since early in her career, Lori recognized the many dimensions of health and wellness. And, when teaching children and youth, the acronym SMEEPS or SMEEPS OF is taught for students to easily recall these dimensions:
Social – Mental – Emotional – Environmental – Physical – Spiritual –
Occupational – Financial
She has also been teaching about the Growth Mindset (how stress is a part of life and can empower our growth) and Mindfulness tools for almost 25 years. This includes authoring her newest book Tactile Tools for Social Emotional Learning Activities to Help Children Self-Regulate with SEL, PreK-5!
Recent consulting projects
- American Embassy in New Delphi, India updated to skill based curriculum
- Reviewing the 3rd Edition of the National Health Education Standards: Lori was a member of the Expert Review Group for these revised standards. Check out this edition here.
- Feedback to middle school district on Skill-Based Units: Lori provided feedback for other Health Educators who created skill-based lessons for middle school teachers.
- Revising Chicago Public School’s Sexual Health Education curriculum in grades K through 12: This revision work included one health education standard (skill) being focused upon within specific grade levels.
- Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction: This project included consulting with school health educators in creating skill-based units and authentic assessments.
- Mindfulness training: Completed coursework focusing on mindfulness practices in the PreK-12 school setting through Mindfulness Schools.
Click here to learn about Lori’s consulting work regarding Consent and Erin’s Law!
To talk with Lori about possible collaboration and consulting work, email her at superhealthcrusader@gmail.com or schoolhealtheducators@gmail.com.