Anytime we lose a young person to suicide is one time too many. Tragically, most of today’s school shootings end in both harm to innocents and in the suicide of the perpetrators. Efforts to reduce s...
Suicide Prevention Week 2014 is September 8-12/World Suicide Prevention Day, September 10th As we mourn another suicide in recent headlines, we consider the tragic loss of life, and the pain and sadne...
Recent media attention has focused on yet another celebrity death caused by heroin overdose. The tragedy of high profile, celebrity deaths provides the educational community with an opportunity to ed...
The effort to make our schools and communities safer requires a comprehensive approach. Arming educators or even simply adding an armed school resource officer (SRO) is not an effective solution. Scho...
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a significant health challenge facing the United States. It is estimated that nearly 20 million new STD cases occur each year. While anyone can become infect...
For educators it can seem that stress is everywhere. Even positive events can be stressful. Stress can help people achieve peak performance – but too much stress can impair performance and be ha...
Educators know that children who are hungry cannot learn. Hunger is an everyday reality for millions of children across the country – in a series of recent surveys, one in four families in the U.S. wi...
This blog is co-written by HIN staff member Annelise Cohon and Principal Daisy Greene as part of our week-long celebration for National School Breakfast Week. As you may have seen this week, NEA HIN r...
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month — and May 1 through 7 is National Physical Education (PE) and Sport Week! Our friends at SHAPE America have put together fun facts you can shar...
If you haven’t already read R.J. Palacio’s beautiful, moving and sometimes heartbreaking book, Wonder, run — don’t walk — to your library or favorite bookstore and pick i...