Health Literacy Month Resources for Health & PE

Skills-based health education provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to make health-enhancing choices and lead a healthy lifestyle.

Health literacy is an important measure of the effectiveness of health education and is critical to ensuring that students have the ability to address their own health needs now and in the future.

During Health Literacy Month, we’d like to give a big shout out to our nation’s health education teachers — and HPE teachers — for their work teaching life-changing skills to young people. Thank you!

New Tip Sheet!

Celebrate Your Own Health Literacy Month

Use this new resource to help celebrate Health Literacy Month in your school this October!

Download the tip sheet today for suggestions on how to brainstorm and plan an event that best meets the needs of your students, school and community!

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New Guidance Document!

Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education

This guidance document articulates best practices in school-based health education that support the implementation of effective health education as a critical component of any school system.

It can be used by key stakeholders such as health educators, physical educators, school nurses, principals, teacher evaluators, community members, and higher education faculty to evaluate current practices, identify areas for improvement, and make positive changes leading to stronger school-based health education programs.

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