BRSSD Prepares Students to Make Healthy Choices

Raising well-rounded students who make good choices and are ready to become successful adults is not just a lucky occurrence, it comes from the thoughtful planning of schools and of parents.

To this end, BRSSD has adopted curriculawhich gives students the social-emotionalfoundation needed to help them make theright choices as they mature and are givengreater independence.

Health Education Curriculum: Great Body Shop(GBS) is a comprehensive health education curriculum. Its mission is to equip children and their families with the knowledge and skillsneeded to make healthy choices throughout their lives.

Social-Emotional Learning: Second Step’s lessons in empathy, problem-solving and emotion management give students the foundation for responsible decision making.Elementary students learn howto make friends, manage their emotions, and to deal with peer pressure. Middle school students are given the tools to think carefully about the negative effect of substance use on themselves, their family and of their future goals. All BRSSD students are taught these lessons by a teacher or a counselor.

Yoga & Mindfulness PE Curriculum: Project ALERT (PA) is a researched based curriculum that not only teaches students about the drugs that they are most likely to be exposed to but changes the pro-drug mentality of many teenagers by encouraging them to analyze why teens would want to take drugs. The curriculum gives them the tools to make healthy choices around drug use. All 7th and 8th graders are taught these lessons by a classroom teacher.