Blog

HSC’s blog is here to help you stay up to date on the movement for healthier schools. Visit often to read about exciting work in Chicago and across the country.

A girl smiles at us and sits at a school desk. She holds a piece of paper in her left hand and a pencil in her right hand.
October 9, 2019

How Connecticut Is Addressing Students’ Mental and Physical Health
young African American students swinging on Space to Grow playground at Cather Elementary School in Chicago
September 10, 2019

Highlighting our Model in the Stanford Social Innovation Review
student at a Space to Grow ribbon cutting at Cook Elementary Schools
December 11, 2018

How We Supported Student Health + Wellness in 2018
Healthy Schools Campaign's Guillermo Gomez
June 28, 2018

A Big Thanks to Guillermo Gomez
Chicago Public School students at lunch
June 21, 2018

Improving School Food with Parents + Chicago Public Schools
Latino students playing soccer on the Space to Grow schoolyard at Gunsaulus in Chicago
May 29, 2018

Supporting Student Health + Wellness with Space to Grow
colorful numbers painted on a schoolyard play surface
April 10, 2018

How Morrill Is Adding Health + Wellness to its School Improvement Plan
student at Wadsworth Elementary in Chicago looking at camera
December 14, 2017

Making Progress in a Challenging Year
Prosser High School students chefs posing with fresh produce at Cooking up Change 2017 in Chicago
November 21, 2017

Prosser Wins Cooking up Change with International Inspiration
Cooking up Change student chefs wearing a chef jacket with Aramark logo standing in front of the Washington monument in Washington, D.C.
November 14, 2017

Why Cooking up Change Inspires School Food Provider Aramark
Chef Mark Steuer of Funkenhausen
October 31, 2017

Welcoming Chef Mark Steuer as a Cooking up Change Judge
October 24, 2017

Working to Get the Lead Out of Schools