Access the latest research-to-practice brief from Johns Hopkins University and Harmony Academy.
School leaders have a clear role to play in supporting healthy learning within their schools and with their out-of-school time partners. Many school leaders want to implement healthy learning strategies but face key challenges when they attempt to integrate this programming into their school structure. Common challenges include lack of instructional time, inadequate implementation support, and limited common knowledge of healthy learning practices among teachers and support staff. We partnered with Johns Hopkins University to find research-based solutions and practices that school leaders and principals can activate for successful Harmony-Academic integration and outcomes, particularly when schools and communities implement the Harmony Curriculum.
Download our latest research-to-practice brief, full of best practices that support schoolwide implementation of healthy learning programs and practices.
This new research gives particular attention to strategies and research support related to Harmony, an evidence-based healthy learning program affiliated with National University, and to other approaches used by school leaders nationally, to promote effective implementation of Harmony-Academic integration in their schools. This report builds on work presented in an earlier brief developed for classroom teachers (Reilly, Yoder, Ross, et al., 2021). Access the brief for teachers here.
Learn more at harmony-academy.org.