Here is yet another opportunity to bring critical media health literacy to the forefront of education—both in and out of schools. Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools is participating in the inaugural National Media Literacy Week (Nov 2-6) by conducting health literacy education workshops. Here is the announcement from NAMLE: Read more
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Overview of Obesity in Middle Schoolers
Here is a simple yet powerful video produced by undergraduate students at Clemson University as part of their “Health and Fitness” course in the Department…
Go ahead and bug me with The Good Stuff
Thank you, PBS Digital Studios, for reviving the 2013 (originally Google-funded) Internet program, “The Good Stuff,” which launched new episodes as of May 2015. The YouTube…
The State of Obesity
Did you know… Kentucky high school students have the worst obesity rate in the United States? Utah high school students have the lowest obesity rate…
Attend the 2015 NAMLE Conference
Interested in learning more about media literacy & media use in the classroom to promote health literacy?
Join NAMLE June 26 – 27 for its national media literacy conference. Educators, researchers, librarians and youth-media experts will
converge in Philadelphia for two energetic days of idea-sharing, brainstorming, and professional development focused on media in the classroom and media literacy. As a bonus, CEU credits are being offered to K12 teachers at no charge. Read more
Fed Up with the Obesity Crisis
If you haven’t seen the 2014 documentary, Fed Up, we highly recommend that you set aside 92 minutes of your time and snuggle up on the…
3 Minutes to Health Literacy
Ontario Physical and Health Education Association, aka Ophea, is a not-for-profit organization stationed in Canada. Their vision is congruent with the goals outlined in Healthy Teens. Ophea promotes…
Revving the Nutritious Lunch Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSOnFWdnkK0 It takes some serious guts and passion to set up healthy shop on site of a former McDonald’s. Kristin Richmond and Kirsten Tobey, two…
Harvard Discovers a New Planet
Researchers at Harvard University collaborated with teachers and principals of public middle schools to create an incredible interdisciplinary curriculum. Planet Health was developed with the…
This Generation is so On!
Healthy Teens sends a huge knuckle bump to everyone at generationOn! This global youth service organization is putting massive amounts of power in the hands…