Health and Wellness

Overview

Dalton’s K-12 Health & Wellness Program is committed to cultivating the student’s authentic self and equipping them with skills to navigate their social landscape mindfully. Specifically, if students are supported to understand their identity and embody reflective practices, they will have reached the first step in acquiring agency around their well-being.

With a focus on community, physical, mental, and social health, the program’s goal is to teach concepts and skills for students to assess and maintain their own health. They will learn to employ various decision-making skills and understandings to support and maintain health, and compassionately recognize that every person experiences their own health differently and in many cases, unequally Ultimately, students will be empowered, by the understanding that their personal health is symbiotically connected to the health of the larger community, to work for the greater health of all.