Program Chair, Skills-Based Health/Social Emotional Learning

Mary is the Program Chair of the Skills-Based Health/Social Emotional Learning Department at Cambridge College, Massachusetts.

As a college professor and retired public school health educator,  Mary has seen health education empower students with skills and knowledge, thereby helping them achieve personal health and academic success.

With her text, Skills-Based Health Education, published by Jones and Bartlett,  Mary provides a graduate credit course at Cambridge College or professional development as a consultant.

The second edition of Skills-Based Health Education is scheuled for release in September of 2018

The second edition aligns Skills-
Based Health Education with Social Emotional Learning and provides unit plans and worksheets for the classroom.

 

Health education consultant

Over the years, I have helped districts strengthen their health, physical education, and family and consumer science programs by

• providing skills-based health education training.
• using CDC tools to assess curriculum and instruction, then setting goals for improvement;
• aligning health, physical education, and family and consumer science curriculum  to state and national standards;
• providing professional development in assessment; aligning assessment, curriculum and instruction to state and national standards, and skills-based health and physical education;
• Using the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model to assess needs and set goals for improvement.

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Skills Based Health Education is part of a well organized and functioning Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child program. This CDC/ASCD model enhances health, social-emotional learning, and academic performance of students.

To learn how to implement the skills-based health education and the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child program  in your school,  please contact me.