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Get your students active with this traditional Blackfoot creation story.

Find out what to offer most often, sometimes, and least often for food purchased or provided at school.

Explore resources to advocate, initiate, and share about quality recess for all students. 

Explore active school travel projects in Alberta. 

Get tools to help after-school leaders and programs reduce sport and recreation injuries.

Learn how to plan and fund a school garden with these tips and tools.

Tap into training, events, and resources related to physical activity in after school programs in Alberta. 

See what other school authorities are including in their smoke-free policies

Download these activity cards to help elementary students explore creative movement and the Blackfoot, Cree, and Stoney Nakoda languages.

Explore case studies and promising practices for prioritizing wellness at the school authority level.

Discover 8 benefits of using the comprehensive school health framework to promote mental health.

Learn the science of brain development at your own pace with this free online course.

Promote staff wellness using simple steps and tools, and take part in our provincial recognition program.

Choose an evidence-informed resource for building students' social emotional skills.

Explore tools to help you recognize, assess, prevent, and intervene in school bullying.

Get guidance and training to recognize, prevent, and respond to signs of bullying in school.

Create compassionate classrooms and support mental wellness with materials put together by educators and mental health partners in Alberta.

Eat well with these visual tips and practical ideas (available in multiple languages).

Review national guidance on the provision of comprehensive sexual health education.

Chart your healthy school journey with national standards and supportive tools. 

Get tips to help recognize, celebrate, and share what you've learned about school health.  

Download this fillable resource to build your plan for active outdoor recess on cold weather days.

Review six steps to creating a community school garden, and read success stories from across Alberta.

Get tools to develop and implement evidence-based concussion protocols.

Build your plan for school health with this printable template and practical guidance.

Get to know healthy school communities through 10-minute e-learning modules.

Explore information and resources that encourage eating well at school. 

Start a conversation about what's going on at school within the comprehensive school health framework. 

This is a BC-based resource.

Learn how to develop, write, and implement school health policies.

Learn about healthy eating for a strong body, mind, and spirit. Use this tool alongside the new Canada’s Food Guide.

Learn protocols for connecting with Elders and Knowledge Keepers at school

Boost the energy level in your classroom with these quick, active, and fun ideas.

Browse resources to support equity, diversity, and inclusivity in K-12 schools.

Explore Alberta-based research on the essential conditions, and learn about a new tool to help reflect on, plan, and celebrate school health.

Learn the core and contextual conditions for comprehensive school health with this handy infographic.

Review Alberta's guiding document for K-12 wellness education programs of study.

Choose high-quality school health programs and resources with this helpful guide.  

Review the benefits of creating healthy learning environments, and learn what students have to say about health.

Explore information, resources, and services that support physical and mental health in Alberta schools.

Get practical advice to set up your school health team or start your journey as a school health champion. 

Give your school vending machines a healthy makeover with fun ideas and simple tools.

Encourage healthy food and drinks at school with these lively and colourful posters.

Find out what you can do to support a healthy relationship with food in your classroom and school.

Learn how to create a healthy fundraising policy for your school, and get inspired with ideas and examples.

Explore this e-toolkit for resources and tips from schools that have made the switch to healthy sporting events.

Harness the power of healthy food marketing with fun and friendly posters based on the 4Ps: product, pricing, promotion, and placement.

Improve student health and wellbeing by building more movement and less screen use into the school day and homework.

Get students and staff thinking about what a healthy school community looks like to them.

Get instructions for techniques to inform, consult, involve, collaborate, and empower communities.

Find out how the AHS Indigenous Wellness Core partners to provide accessible, culturally appropriate health services for First Nations, Métis and Inuit people in Alberta.

Get tips to guide the evaluation of school health policies.

Discover ways of supporting workplace wellness for teachers and other school staff.

Honour the role tobacco plays in many Indigenous cultures

Register for this e-module to learn why kindness matters in mental health, and get everyday tips to build a kind school community.

Watch how parents and schools in Alberta come together to support mental health with this 5-minute video.

Set up formal or informal mentoring programs to connect students with caring, supportive adults.

Learn how to deliver yoga and mindfulness techniques for your classroom with this self-directed online course.

Use this sample policy as a guide for developing smoke-free schools and school authorities

Activate recess with 20+ games and activities that use playground stencils, chalk, or taped lines.

Share the history and culture of traditional games.

Find ideas to connect kids and teens with nature.

Get lesson plans for outdoor physical activity with K-6 students.

Take a look at how health and education are coordinated and aligned in Canada.

Get tips to motivate and inspire parent engagement in school health. 

This is a US-based resource.

Assess readiness for policy change in a community or organization.

Find easy-to-implement, evidence-informed mental health practices for elementary classrooms.

Let students have their say on tobacco and vaping at school.

Track the progress of tobacco and smoke-free polices in Alberta

Reflect on what it means to examine an issue from a public health perspective.

Watch this short video to see what $1 can do to improve quality of life and reduce health care costs.

Use this tool to help ensure that every student has a positive connection to at least one adult at school.

This is a US-based resource.

Reflect on relationships within a continuum of supports, and get ideas to strengthen student-adult connections.

Discover tools and resources to make healthy public policy change easier.

Learn how restorative practices help school staff respond to unacceptable behaviour

Learn the benefits of recess before lunch and find out how to make it work at your school.

Get guidance to minimize inherent risk of physical activity at school.

Get ideas to build students' social emotional skills through lessons, instruction, and teaching practices. 

This is a US-based resource.
 
 

Learn about the experiences of active school travel champions in Alberta.

Start or improve your school breakfast program with this practical guide.

Use these prompts to decide whether a school food vendor offers what you're looking for.

Figure out if food served at school meets provincial guidelines and other health recommendations.

Get inspired with healthy eating lesson plans and classroom activities for K-12 students, developed by Registered Dietitians.

Find AMA School Safety Patrol program information and materials.

Review foundational ideas and evidence on social emotional learning, and learn through examples.

Encourage everyday practices that support social emotional learning in elementary school.  

Encourage everyday practices that support social emotional learning in high school.

Find guidance and learn skills to support school activities that are inclusive of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities (SOGI).

Take steps to make your classroom more inclusive of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities (SOGI).

Get ideas for healthy food and drink options at your next special lunch day.

Together with students, co-design approaches to curb tobacco and vaping

Learn how student voice shapes school communities and the education system in Alberta.

Get tips to move up the ladder of student involvement.  

Get to know what mentoring can do for your school community—the foundational ideas, key components, and types of programs.

Boost student engagement in school health with tips and advice from young leaders.

Learn best practices for co-designing meaningful learning experiences with youth.

Access recorded presentations and conversation guides developed by leading experts in student wellbeing. 

Find tools to support LGBTQ2S+ inclusive physical and health education.

Find information and resources to support sexual health promotion for youth with disabilities.

Find tips and tools to boost caregivers’ comfort in talking with kids and teens about sexual health.

Build your skills and confidence in teaching sexual health using our Alberta Education authorized resource.

Reflect on 10 reasons why comprehensive school health works for today's learners.

Build your plan for active school travel with these inspiring interventions, actions, and case studies.

Explore the roots of health promotion with this call for collective action and pledge to health for all. 

Explore how outdoor experiences shape learning with this 50-minute podcast.

Collect information about what's working well and what needs to be improved when it comes to a welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environment.

Gather perspectives from teachers about key aspects of a welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environment.

Get set to take unstructured play and learning outdoors with these fun and inspiring tools.

Set priorities by reflecting on urgency and importance. 

Discover innovative, curriculum-aligned resources based on best practices in tobacco and vaping prevention

Create a healthy learning climate and workplace with checklists for school system leaders. 

Understand the differences between traditional commercial tobacco products (like cigarettes)

Explore the role of traditional tobacco in ceremony, healing, and giving thanks

Stop stigma by sharing video-based personal stories from young people experiencing mental illness.

Explore research, practices, and tools about unstructured play and healthy child development.

Get tips to prevent active travel injuries in kids and teens.

Get tips to encourage a healthy relationship with food when you interact with students.

Get the latest updates and featured publications on health, happiness, and resilience in school staff.

Learn system-wide strategies to improve K-12 workplace wellbeing with this virtual series for education leaders.

Tap into positive psychology strategies that support teacher wellness, including mindfulness, gratitude, and compassion.

Learn about social and economic influences on health and explore how to reduce health inequities.

Reflect on the key competencies and foundational ideas of the CSH framework, and read fictional examples.

Consider how health is defined in Canada and learn what affects it.

Review helmet types and standards for wheeled activities, winter sports, and field sports.

Use best practices as a roadmap for mental health promotion in school policies, practices, and services.

Explore workplace wellness resources developed and supported by school superintendents in Alberta. 

Browse youth engagement videos, tools, and stories in this interactive e-book.