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Joseph R. Pye Elementary School’s Health and Wellness team has won $1,750 from Medical University of South Carolina’s Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness, which recognizes schools that promote healthy nutrition and physical activity among students.
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Joseph R. Pye Elementary School’s Health and Wellness team has won $1,750 from Medical University of South Carolina’s Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness, which recognizes schools that promote healthy nutrition and physical activity among students.
A Dorchester District 2 school received recognition and some money from the Medical University of South Carolina for its care for students’ health and wellness.
Joseph R. Pye Elementary School received the Wellness Award grand prize of $1,750 for the district from MUSC Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness, according to a DD2 press release.
The center’s school-based wellness initiative works to improve nutrition and increase physical activity for students and staff, who participate in the center’s School Wellness Checklist. The checklist offers a variety of evidence-based strategies for improving health in the following categories: getting started, nutrition, physical activity, social-emotional learning, wellness culture, staff wellness and sustainability.
The money will support JPES’s Health and Wellness Team. Also included in the grand prize was a trophy and a healthy breakfast provided for school staff.
Sand Hill and Oakbrook elementary schools placed second and third, respectively, with other schools throughout DD2 receiving other wellness awards.
Capturing Kids’ Hearts
Three more DD2 schools were recognized by Capturing Kids’ Hearts, national nonprofit that trains educators how to mentor to children.
Alston-Bailey, Oakbrook and Windsor Hill Arts Infused elementary schools are among just 377 schools throughout the country to win the nonprofit’s National Showcase Schools award. Showcase schools are school teams that go “the extra mile each day to successfully create a safe, welcoming environment that supports a high-quality education,” according to another DD2 press release.
According to its website, Capturing Kids’ Hearts helps train educators in cultivating relational capacity, improving school culture, strengthening trust between teachers and students, building self-managing classrooms, creating accountability, improving academic performance and fostering trauma-informed care.
Oakbrook has received the award four years in a row, while Alston-Bailey received it last year. This is Windsor’s first year to be awarded.
Other recognitions
DD2 has also announced awards and recognitions for individuals in the district.
From Alston-Bailey Elementary, student Reverdy Capers earned national recognition for his original song, “Great Day, Richard Wright,” for Flocabulary’s Black History rap competition. According to a DD2 press release, Capers was a top 10 finalist in the contest from among 760 submissions.
Flocabulary uses educational hip-hop videos and research-based curricular tools to increase academic performance through an emphasis on vocabulary and literacy across the curriculum.
From DuBose Middle School, business teacher Denise Harrel earned the SC Economics Teacher of the Year award from educational nonprofit South Carolina Council on Economic Education. According to the release, Harrel highlights the importance of personal finance and economics with her students and peers, advocates across the state and collaborates with SC Economics to connect with other educators.
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