Healthy Schools

Teachers’ job satisfaction and occupational burnout as independent research areas are
interesting, yet challenging domains of research in the field of educational leadership.
erefore, in recent years researchers’ focus tended to be on the possibility of joint
examination of these two research areas, which emanates from the need to design an
enriched quality support model in education, stimulating school effectiveness and creating
health promoting schools. e focus of the present study lies on the effort of profiling the
degree in which certain factors contribute to the formation of job satisfaction to EPAL
teachers, in combination with the study of occupational burnout. e key strategy of the
present study was to explore the effect of four factors in achieving job satisfaction among
teachers (the way of decision-making, the existing school climate, the feelings deriving from
work and the working conditions). ese will be examined in combination with the
investigation of occupational burnout and demographic characteristics. For the purposes
of the study, the use of a structured self-completion questionnaire as a tool was used and
data were subsequently analyzed.

While discourse on green and sustainability topics abounds, there is a lack of concise, practical, systems information aimed at making educational environments healthier and safer.

The Healthy Facilities Institute (HFI) Healthy and Safe Facility Handbook ─ School and College Edition provides actionable facts and steps to help you develop a system to:
 Improve and protect the indoor environment at your facility
 Provide better conditions for students, staff, faculty, and visitors
 Advance learning outcomes by enhancing safety and health

The audience for this handbook is not technical but general.  It is designed to make the complicated simple while still being accurate, thus empowering laypersons to understand, affect, and improve health and safety issues in schools and colleges.

The subject of healthier indoor environments should be well-understood by all, not just experts.  This guide will give you holistic information to move your educational facility toward a higher level of health and well-being to the benefit of the learning and teaching process.

The 2013/2014 national report in Canada focuses on the importance of relationships. Similarly, in trying to address the areas of concern identified in this Yukon Report, an interlocking nest of positive relationships is needed. It is the responsibility of families, schools,
peers, and communities to work together in an effort to improve the lives of Yukon adolescents. Unfortunately, relationships represent the area of greatest concern in the Yukon. It only takes one adult to make a real difference in a young person’s life. Let’s make sure that each and
every youth in Yukon has that significant adult.

[AMAZON LINK BELOW TO BOOK ITSELF -- TOC and book summary in downloadable .pdf] 

In the modern jungle of burgers, couches, and remote controls, obesity is an enormous and growing epidemic. Weight-loss books and diet gurus urge us to "listen to our bodies," but our instincts are designed for the African savannah, not food courts. The sugary and fatty foods that we, as hunter-gatherers, are programmed to forage used to be hard to come by. Now they're as close as the vending machine down the hall.

Radical changes are necessary and, fortunately, are biologically easier than small or gradual changes in diet. Barrett tells us how to reprogram our bodies, break food addictions, and ignore our attraction to "supernormal stimuli"—artificial creations that appeal to our instincts more than the natural objects they mimic. Barrett delves into scientific research—from animal ethology to evolution—to show the disastrous direction in which our instincts have led us, and how, using our intellect, we can get back on course.  . . . . . . . .An elegantly written and eye-opening analysis of what makes us fat. -- Steven Pinker, PhD, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works
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In this cogent, clearly argued, and thought-provoking book, Barrett shows how we are paying the price for our own plenty. -- David Spiegel, M.D. Medical Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; author of Living Beyond Limits
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Offers us a way to understand the pandemic of obesity that we find ourselves in. -- John Ratey, M.D. Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, co-author of Driven to Distraction

GIS map created, for Harry Cummings and Associates, as part of an evaluation to assess administrative capacity as part of the evaluation for Peel Region’s Healthy Schools Program with Peel District School Board and Peel-Dufferin Catholic School Board.