Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications: 2025 Release ISE

Denise Seabert, PhD, has been preparing health teachers and providing in-service trainings for teachers and other school personnel for more than 20 years. Her career has been dedicated to professional preparation of health educators through service to state and national organizations and initiatives as well as textbook authorship. Denise provided leadership in Indiana’s obesity prevention efforts, HIV education for teachers, and academic standards for health and wellness. Currently she serves on the Eta Sigma Gamma National Health Education Honorary Executive Board and National Committee on the Future of School Health. She has served on the Board of Directors for the American School Health Association, NCHEC’s Division Board for Certified Health Education Specialists, and was a member of the CDC’s Training Tools for Healthy Schools national training cadre. Denise is professor emeritus at Ball State University.  She joined the University of West Florida as Dean, Usha Kundu, MD College of Health in July 2018.  Dr. Seabert received her BAEd in School Health Education from Western Washington University, MS in School and College Health from Indiana University, and PhD in Health Behavior with a minor in Curriculum from the University of Florida.

• SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH EDUCATION1: Whole school, whole community, whole child: A collaborative approach to learning and health2: Comprehensive school health education: Applying the science of education to improving health instruction3: Standards-based planning, teaching, and assessment in health education4: Building and managing the safe and positive learning environmentSECTION II: HELPING STUDENTS DEVELOP SKILLS FOR POSITIVE HEALTH HABITS5: Promoting mental and emotional health6: Promoting healthy eating7: Promoting physical activity8: Promoting safety and preventing unintentional injury9: Promoting personal health and wellnessSECTION III: HELPING STUDENTS TRANSLATE THEIR SKILLS TO MANAGE HEALTH RISKS10: Preventing intentional injuries and violence11: Tobacco use and electronic nicotine delivery systems prevention12: Alcohol and other drug use prevention13: Promoting sexual health14: Managing loss, death, and griefAppendix: Rocky Mountain Center for Health Promotion and Education Rubrics for the National Health Education Standards