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Welcome to the World Encyclopedia on School Health, Safety, Social, Economic and Sustainable Development (ie schools for all), a shared workspace used by several organizations as a place to exchange knowledge based on both research evidence and professional experience to promote the use of programs, policies and practices that can be acted upon in the real world.

This wiki-based web site is the home of a world wide collaborative effort by partner organizations to create and support a global knowledge translation and exchange program. This includes wiki-based summaries, webinars and web meetings, and the shared use of social media tools such as Twitter. Learn more about this knowledge exchange program. Watch our 20 minute recorded webinar presentation introducing this Encyclopedia and KE program as well as its accompanying and supporting information service for ISHN members.

We hope that we can enable readers to quickly find the latest information and avoid dupplicating the efforts of others through the production of wiki-based summaries such as glossaries and encyclopedia entries explaining key concepts as well as handbooks and extensive bibliographies/toolboxess of research and resources that are created and maintained by experts, practitioners, officials and policy-makers from countries around the world.

We thank the numerous writers, contributors, presenters and sponsors who have already provided their time, expertise and funds to this program.

Through the power of the Internet, we hope that our webinars, on line discussions and web meetings and wiki-based joint editing projects we will promote more effective and efficient practices, programs and policies.

Through the shared use of social media accounts such as Twitter, document sharing sites such as Scribd/DocStoc, bookmark sites such as Delicious, citation managers such as CiteULike and others, we hope that we can keep you up to date on research and resources on healthy schools, safe schools, community schools, eco-schools and many other approaches to promoting human development through schools. Click on the issues/aspects being discussed in our active calls for discussions/ contributors to find embedded Twitter-based news/research feeds and wiki-based collections of research. reports and resources. We will also be starting a "Quick Consults" page where experts and practitioners will be available on a scheduled basis to answer your questions posted in an instant message box during specified times and dates.

This type of summarized, quick response information is complementary to the articles published in peer reviewed journals, which are not able to include important aspects about the programs they have studied and do not include the wisdom gleaned from the experience of practitioners.

We hope to engage an ever-expanding number of practitioners, graduate students, managers, government officials and researchers in these discussions that will complement, consolidate and consider peer-reviewed articles and textbooks. Our plan is to seek small grants and in-kind contributions from around the world that will create these summaries on topics being studied and addressed by them, in order to share that work with others around the world.

We believe that the development and sharing of these topical and timely summaries will be of significant value to government departments/ministries and knowledge organizations who need to quickly assess the evidence and the experience with a selected topic before committing to larger scale inquiries or funding projects. Please see the roles and benefits to sponsors from this program.

We hope to make this program part of university classes and knowledge exchange organizations, offering them a shared, interactive and international venue for discussions in webinars, web meetings and wiki-based writing projects. Please see our description of the role and benefits for university faculty/classes and staff development/knowledge exchange officers.

We invite your suggestions and comments on the contents of these pages through the Discussion Forum and other tools of this web site. As well, any suggestions about our overall approach would be welcome. Please send the comments or questions to dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org

Active Calls for Discussions,
Contributors, Sponsors
Interested in participating? See our current calls:

Call re Core SH Concepts
Call re Nutrition Friendly Schools
Call re Monitoring & Reporting
Call re Behaviour Theories
Call re Substance Abuse Prevention and Schools
Call re Implementation, Capacity & Sustainability Issues
Call re Schools & Mental Health
Call re Physical Activity & Schools
Call re Equity, Disadvantage & Disparities (within High Income Countries)
Call re Integration of H&S programs within education systems
Call re Teacher Education & Development

How to Use this Wiki/Web Site

Navigate your way through this large web site by using the alphabetical listing or the listing of topics positioned within a synthesis statement of various approaches to school-based work. Also use the "calls for discussions/contributors" on various broad issues or aspects of school-based work to track how they are developing. There is also a customized search engine for this web site (upper right hand corner).

Learn how to "watch" and "unwatch" pages in this wiki by viewing this brief video. (Or, read these detailed instructions on managing your account from Wetpaint

Learn more about how to edit, add and move pages as well as make comments within this wiki in our video/web tour. (Or, go to these pages for detailed instructions on using "Easy Edit" to change the text on pages, or how to create, move or work with pages.)

Control the amount of email (from other members and about page changes) that you receive from this wiki. Learn how from our video/web tour on joining and creating a profile. (Or, read these detailed instructions on how to manage your wetpaint account or profile).
Check out our *Quick Consults" page, where we take your IM posted questions or skype calls as well as have informal web meetings calls with selected experts at designated times.

Other Resources & News

See our International blog (including Twitter, Facebook, Slideshare and other applications) on safe, healthy, green and community schools.

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