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.

Two girls select fruit and lunch food items at a school cafeteria counter
January 23, 2020

Another Attempt to Weaken School Food
Chicago students standing in a classroom
December 19, 2019

Making Schools Healthier in 2019
Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy Principal Fernando Kim
November 11, 2019

Why Chicago and Illinois Should Support Green Schoolyards
Candace Moore, Chicago's Chief Equity Officer
November 11, 2019

How Accountability Supports Student Health
Dr. Doriane Miller, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago and Director of the Center for Community Health and Vitality at UChicagoMedicine
November 8, 2019

Increasing Access to Mental and Behavioral Health
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