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Whole-Person Education
Applied Wellness
Wellness for the real world
This unique-to-DSHA program is designed to mimic how individuals achieve whole-person wellness beyond high school: through reflection, contemplation, planning, and action. We will provide students with the framework and a variety of opportunities to practice and internalize this process so that wellness becomes more than a requirement – it becomes a way of life. A four-year, school-wide commitment allows students to grow into the ability to manage their wellness throughout high school and beyond.
Areas of focus for individual student wellness:
Areas of focus for individual student wellness:
- Spiritual health
- Intellectual health
- Physical health
- Mental, social, and emotional health
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
How It Works: Freshman and Sophomore Year
Twice each week during a scheduled class hour, students will take a structured Health & Fitness class via the Health & Wellness Department. This structured class focuses on their physical health as well as whole-person care including social, emotional, and spiritual well-being through a variety of programming.
Beginning sophomore year, students start to make structured choices and slowly onboard into the Applied Wellness program.
Beginning sophomore year, students start to make structured choices and slowly onboard into the Applied Wellness program.
How it Works: Junior and Senior Year
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The Applied Wellness Program
The mission of this program is to allow students to explore their self-advocacy and personal accountability through the process of assessment, choice, engagement, and reflection. This experiential program offers students with a variety of wellness experiences allowing them to learn more about themselves and grow along their own wellness journeys. -
Tracking & Reflection
Students are tracked weekly through reports derived from the Applied Wellness app. Weekly engagement is the foundation of the program and cannot be dismissed. There fore, wellness circles and one-on-one or small group discussions with staff are implemented, as needed, to ensure students stay on track within this choice-based program.
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Dynamic Experiences
The high school years are marked with seasons of change, growth, and challenges. As a result, students will choose their wellness experiences to accommodate the greatest need or interest at the time. However, we also encourage healthy risk taking where students jump outside their comfort zone and engage in something outside of their usual choices or interests. -
Applied Wellness Experiences
Experiences occur during the dedicated Applied Wellness hour:- Every student has an Applied Wellness hour incorporated into their schedule each semester.
- Students registered for a study hall may also use this time to engage in Applied Wellness activities.
- Students will use the Applied Wellness app to register for experiences.
For more information, contact:
Joanna McQuide, MS, DSHA '93
Applied Wellness Program Director
Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach
Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach
Applied Wellness Program Assistant
Applied Wellness via Student Services
The Applied Wellness program falls under the umbrella of Student Services at DSHA. The intention is to serve students in the fullest capacity possible – all to ensure that each girl can navigate her college-prep high school experience in a healthy manner, with resources tailored to meet her needs.
Applied Wellness Requirements
Applied Wellness is one unified program where students are encouraged to engage in multiple wellness experiences to learn about, support, and promote their own wellbeing. The intention is to meet student interest, choice, and need while offering opportunities for girls to step outside their comfort zone.
Students must complete a weekly Applied Wellness requirement.
Applied Wellness is experiential, student-focused, and not bound to a curriculum. There is no letter grade but rather a pass or incomplete. This program is grounded in the understanding that each student has different needs and will take different paths, so it is not connected to a traditional academic standard of grade achievement. However, if a student regularly ignores the weekly requirements, they may be placed into a non-choice track in order to assist them in the program. The non-choice track would be regularly reviewed and assessed to determine if the student can rejoin the choice-based program.
This program requires student sign-up and follow-through. Sign-up and tracking are housed within our Applied Wellness app.
There are weekly requirements and reflections that each student must engage in to pass the program. There is not a wellness domain that stands alone or should have a greater focus than the others. Students have the opportunity to engage in experiences that focus on their social, emotional, spiritual, diverse, and physical selves. Assigned Applied Wellness small groups will meet at scheduled times throughout the school year. These meetings and groups are marked on their schedule so they can plan accordingling.
The intention behind this structured choice is to allow students the freedom to grow in their understanding of themselves, relationships with others, embrace the full spectrum of humanity. We encourage healthy risk taking with the understanding that students will ebb and flow with their program selections. This process will allow the opportunity to flourish.
Students must complete a weekly Applied Wellness requirement.
Applied Wellness is experiential, student-focused, and not bound to a curriculum. There is no letter grade but rather a pass or incomplete. This program is grounded in the understanding that each student has different needs and will take different paths, so it is not connected to a traditional academic standard of grade achievement. However, if a student regularly ignores the weekly requirements, they may be placed into a non-choice track in order to assist them in the program. The non-choice track would be regularly reviewed and assessed to determine if the student can rejoin the choice-based program.
This program requires student sign-up and follow-through. Sign-up and tracking are housed within our Applied Wellness app.
There are weekly requirements and reflections that each student must engage in to pass the program. There is not a wellness domain that stands alone or should have a greater focus than the others. Students have the opportunity to engage in experiences that focus on their social, emotional, spiritual, diverse, and physical selves. Assigned Applied Wellness small groups will meet at scheduled times throughout the school year. These meetings and groups are marked on their schedule so they can plan accordingling.
The intention behind this structured choice is to allow students the freedom to grow in their understanding of themselves, relationships with others, embrace the full spectrum of humanity. We encourage healthy risk taking with the understanding that students will ebb and flow with their program selections. This process will allow the opportunity to flourish.
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