In this pathway, schools commit to the importance of community wellness, with a sharpened focus on student and teacher holistic health. By involving representatives from all stakeholder communities, the school co-designs a shared, common framework for holistic wellbeing, purposeful and personalized indicators, and a variety of opportunities for all community members to partake in a community dedicated to balance. 

Wellness can be an authentic focus for students impact projects and can be highlighted throughout all areas of the school such as: transdisciplinary studies, off-schedule events, student leadership programs, service learning, and physical and health education.  

Wellbeing initiatives often revolve around active engagement with some or all of the following strands:

• Intellectual

• Physical

• Social

• Emotional

• Mental

• Financial

• Spiritual

• Environmental 

• Occupational

School communities then explore personalized and contextualized indicators as subsets of the interdependent strands. In essence, student learning and community impact centers on the creation of sustainable wellness programs, the progress monitoring of wellness initiatives, and the participation in the lifelong pursuit of personal and collective, holistic wellbeing.

Pathway 9 in Practice