Health is Vital for Student Success: An Overview of Relevant Research | Page 12

Teachers Understand
Social and Emotional
Connection to Student
Achievement

Linking Health and Learning Success Stories

A national survey of teachers found

Center Consolidated Schools: San Luis Valley, Colorado

that three out of four teachers

pregnancy and drug and alcohol abuse rates were high, the district started a youth

believe social and emotional learning
will improve student academic
achievement. Those who reported
successful social and emotional
learning programs in their schools
were half as likely to say their school
has a negative school climate.
Source: Collaborative for Academic,
Social, and Emotional Learning
(CASEL), The Missing Piece: A
National Teacher Survey on How

Center Consolidated Schools, located in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, has collected
student health and risk behavior data for over a decade. Knowing that teen

engagement process to give all students a voice in health and wellness. Students
focused on bettering the school climate, which included addressing bullying, and
made great strides.

Reports of
bullying on
school property
decreased from
33% to

18%

(2007 to 2012)

Social and Emotional Learning Can
Empower Children and Transform
Schools, 2013

Students
reporting a low
commitment
to school
decreased from
65% to

30%

The graduation
rate increased
from
81% to

90%

(2010 to 2012)

(2007 to 2012)

Students reporting
being absent from
school because of
safety concerns
decreased from
12% to

4%

(2007 to 2012)

Rangeview High School: Aurora, Colorado

Rangeview High School in Aurora, Colo., has worked hard to become a No Place
For Hate® school. Its student body