The Core Concept of Building Resilience is that comprehensive health education enables students to thrive, persevere, and maintain a positive attitude and healthy bodies. Comprehensive health education teaches fundamental health concepts, promotes habits and behaviors that enhance health, and guides efforts to build healthy families, schools, and communities. I. Comprehensive health education fosters student resilience through the coordinated teaching of health, family and consumer sciences, and physical education.
Interdisciplinary instruction enriches the learning of fundamental health concepts and practices.
Student concerns, interests, views, and ideas are central to active learning and to the classroom assessment of comprehensive health education. Comprehensive health education requires collaboration and partnerships among all components of the comprehensive school health program. V. Comprehensive health education teaches students to acknowledge and respect similarities as well as differences among people. Comprehensive, sequential health education at every level, preschool through high school, is essential to lifelong learning and health for all students. Students will develop individual competence and versatility in movement skills, understand movement concepts, and relate physical activity to lifelong health.