Mary Connolly, Health Education Consultant

 It is my mission to improve the health, well-being, and academic performance of our youth by providing quality, skills-based health and physical education. 

After many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate health courses and health education in public schools, I have witnessed how health education improves the lives of our youth and prepares them to be productive members of our society.

I am uniquely qualified to work with you to improve your health, physical education, family and consumer science, or coordinated school health programs.

As the Director of Health and Elementary Physical Education for nine years. I wrote several state and federal grants.

I collaborated with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to write and implement health education assessment training and have completed the draft of Massachusetts Health Education Assessment Guidelines.

As a Cambridge College professor, I teach two graduate level courses

• Building and Evaluating the  Coordinated School Health Programs
• Implement ing Curriculum in the Health  Classroom.

By serving on the committee that revised the National Health Education Standards I understand the value of  

• current national standards from which states can update or revise their standards;
• partnerships to implement standards;
• equal access and equity of resources for health education;
• assessment in improving teaching and learning.

Over the past several years, I have served on the Massachusetts Health and Human Services Advisory Committee, the last two years as co-chair.

I have made numerous state and national presentations regarding health education assessment and the National Health Education Standards.

Currently, I am under contract to write a pre-service/graduate level skills-based text book that will teach students how to plan, write, implement, and assess skills-based health education.

 Recent Presentation

Massachusetts Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance

Annual Convention 11-3-09

"Teaching Skills-Based Health Education"

Renee Matos (Somerset Public Schools), Mary Connolly, Christina Baudis (Waltham Public Schools)

  During this presentation, Mary explained skills-based health education then Renee and Christina shared their classroom experiences teaching units on Standard 2-Analyzing Influences and Standard 3-Accessing Valid and Reliable sources of information, products, and services.