This page provides a list of webinars, web meetings, slide and video presentations that have been presented by the International School Health Network and its partners as well as other organizations that offer relevant sessions of international interest. (These additional sessions are identified regularly in the extensive ISHN information service, the School Health Insider, that includes a blog and private Twitter newsfeed for ISHN members as well as a freely available selection of items posted in our downloadable widget that can be published on your web site.)

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Date	Title/Speakers/Description	Access
February 1, 2012 15;00 (Ottawa/Washington time	Complexity, Constant Change & Fidelity to a Developed Program, Practice or Approach in School Health Promotion Linda Dusenbury, Researcher, Author, Consultant in Substance Abuse Prevention & Teacher Development This topic is a critical issue when adopting or adapting an existing program that has worked well in another community. Participants will discuss thisbrief summary of fidelityas well as the implications of being faithful to an approach or a program while recognizing the need to usean ecological and systems-based approach. Related topics such as implementation quality, teacher development, the duration and intensity of the intervention, sustainability and others are likely to be discussed in this session. Sponsored by a SMH Consortium Project funded by the Mental Health Commission of Canada	To register, add your name to thislistPlease ofregister participantsfforor this series of webinars./web meetings, To access the webinar, thisParticipants Linkwill be active about 15even minutesfor beforeviewing the start ofrecorded webinar.sessionComeadd your backname to this page and click on the linkatlist thatof time.participantsWe usually prepare background materials for each webinar and they will be posted on this web page. Subsequent to each webinar, we activate this link to the recorded webinarand/or slide presentations.presentations.
December 8, 2011	Inter-agency Policies, Collaboration & Leadership in School Mental Health Debra Lean, Chief Psychologist, Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board, Ontario Vincent Colucci, Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board, Ontario An research-based model from Ontario, Canada will be presented. This unique School-based Integrated Student Support Model (SISSM), which, within the context of exceptional school leadership and instruction, provides a framework for timely and evidence-based integrated and collaborative services to reduce, manage, and prevent barriers to learning for all students. Specific aspects such as Inter-agency agreements, joint procedures and service plans and other will be discussed by participants in this session. Important pitfalls will be also identified, described and discussed in the instant message feature of the session. Following the session, Canadian success stories will subsequently be invited to present and discuss their experiences and to pool their collective experiences in the wiki-based summary that will be prepared as a follow up to the session. Sponsored by a SMH Consortium Project funded by the Mental Health Commission of Canada	To register, even for viewing the recorded session, please add your name to this list of participants for this series of webinars so that we can include you in future discussions. Subsequent to each webinar, we activate this link to the recorded webinar and/or slide presentation.
November 22, 2011 at 15;00 Ottawa/ Washington time)	A Systems-based Approach and Systems Thinking in School Health Promotion: A Prerequisite for Integration with and within Education Systems Colleen Stanton, Consultant, Health Sustainable Systems, Ontario, Canada Bob Harper, Retired Superintendent of Education, York Region District School Ontario, Canada This session will begin with a presentation and discussion about a systems-based approach and proposed model for revising our basic strategies in promoting health and social development in schools. This model was developed through research and interviews with SH leaders from around the world. It suggests that there are three powerful influences on systems that enable ecological and systems-based approaches. They are empowering, shared and distributed styles of leadership, a culture of continuous learning and a recognition of the inter-relatedness of work and life. The second part of the session will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss a list of proposed topics for an International Discussion Group on integration with and within education systems.	To register, even for the recorded version, please add your name to this list of participants for this series of webinars so that we can include you in future discussions. Subsequent to each webinar, we activate this link to the recorded webinar and/or slide presentation.
November 21, 2011 at 15:00 Ottawa/ Washington time	Capacity and Capacity Building in School Health Promotion: An Overview Carmen Aldinger, Education Development Center, Boston, USA Tena Hoyle, Superintendent, Des Moines Municipal Schools, New Mexico, USA This discussion will discuss a definition of organizational capacity in SH promotion and then apply an eight-part WHO model of organizational capacity to define and discuss different types of operational capacities required at different levels in school, mental health and health promotion systems and agencies in order to sustain school mental health programs. Participants will be asked to comment on a draft summary prepared for the World Encyclopedia on School Health, Safety, Equity, Social and Sustainable Development. Sponsored by a SMH Consortium Project funded by the Mental Health Commission of Canada	To register, even for the recorded version, add your name to this list of participants for this series of webinars so that we can include you in future discussions. Subsequent to each webinar, we activate this link to the recorded webinar and/or slide presentations. For this webinar, we recorded a separate interview with Dr. Aldinger. (Note: The interview is contained within the recording of the November 21 session and when viewing the recording, you will automatically be switched into that interview. However, we forgot to turn off the recorded in the larger meeting room, so there is no activity between the 56:55 and 1:23:55 minute times. Use the slider bar at the bottom of the page to advance the recording past the silent time and pick up the remainder of the session.)
September 29, 2011	Pre-Conference Webinar: The Many Approaches to Human Development through Schools This webinar was part of several sessions leading up to the Quebec, Canada and international school health conference held in Montreal on November 28-29, 2011 Web Tour: - Representatives of the many approaches to school health, safety, equity, social & social development will briefly identify their work and their planned webinar. (Go to the ISHN listing of approaches and synthesis of common success strategies) - Discussion of implications of ecological and systems-based approaches to working with schools including multi-level systems thinking, systems change, etc Introductions to conference themes and online discussions: - Integrating health & social development within education systems led by Peter Paulus (Leuphana University, Germany) and Ian Young (IUHPE) (Go to the online discussion of integration within education systems) - Addressing indigenous cultures and contexts led by Shirley Tagalik (National Collaborating Centre on Aboriginal Health, Canada) (Go to the Indigenous School Health framework)	Click here to access the digital recording of the session.
September 15, 2011	Pre-conference Webinar: Social Media, Implementation/Capacity, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Teacher Education This webinar was part of several sessions leading up to the Quebec, Canada and international school health conference held in Montreal on November 28-29, 2011 Keynote: The Implications of Social Media on Youth, Schools & Health Promotion - Lawrence St. Leger (Honorary Professor, Deakin University, Australia) Introductions to conference themes and online discussions: - Implementation, Capacity, Sustainability & Systems Change led by Marthe Deschenes (Institut national de santé publigue du Québec) and Louise Rowling (University of Sydney, Australia) (Go to the invitation to online discussions about ICSSC)) - Promoting Equity, Addressing Disadvantage led by Dr. Michel Janosz (University of Montreal) and Dwayne Provo (Government of Nova Scotia, Canada) (See the invitation to online discussions on disadvantaged communities in high income countries) Applications in selected groupings of conference workshops - Nutrition & schools led by Mary McKenna (University of New Brunswick) (Go to the invitation to online discussions about nutrition and schools) - Physical Activity and Schools led by Trevor Shilton (Global Advocacy for Physical Activity) & Claire Blanchard (IUHPE) (Go to the invitation to online discussions on Physical Activity and Schools) - Teacher Education & Development led by Didier Jourdan (l’Institut universitaire de formation des maîtres d’Auvergne), Patricia Mannix McNamara(University of Limerick) and Helen Butler (Australian Catholic University) (Go to the invitation to online discussions on Teacher Education & Development in Health & Social Development)	(Go this sub-page for links to the digital recording, slide presentations, on-line discussion and other resources suggested by the speakers and participants)
July 6, 2011	Teacher Education & Development in Health, Personal and Social Development Education (Including Sexual Health) Patricia Mannix McNamara, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences, University of Limerick, Ireland Sharon Moyihan, Graduate Student, University of Limerick, Ireland Fred Renihan, Centre for the Study of Educational Leadership & Policy, SFU Helen Butler, Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia Health Promoting Schools Association This session will discuss how teachers can be better prepared to teach health education through their pre-service education in universities as well as in their induction into teaching and in-service training programs. Previous work funded by HC/PHAC in articulating the required competencies of health education teachers as well as a life-long teacher development model as well as updated work currently underway will be used to develop the web-based summaries. This first session will discuss in the structures and processes by which teachers are trained in developed countries. Subsequent sessions will examine studies documenting teacher practices/ perceptions/concerns and the competencies relevant to teaching health and sexual health. Free Access, Sponsored by the Sexual Health & STI Section, Public Health Agency of Canada in cooperation with the Canadian Association for School Health	Click here to access these web pages listing background and discussion materials for this webinar or web meeting: Teacher Education & Development(Glossary Term) Stages & Structures in Teacher Education & Development: High Income Countries(Glossary Term) Models & Approaches to Teacher Education & Development(Glossary Term) Teacher Education & Development(Bibliography & Toolbox) Click here to access the digital recording or presentation slides of this web meeting discussion. This recording of our web meeting includes a recorded interview with Dr. Fred Renihan, retired school administrator, education faculty Dean and Assistant Deputy Minister, discussing how teacher education and development works in school systems. Note: Once you are "in" the recorded interview with Dr Renihan, your browser will keep you there until you exit that web page. The two recordings overlap at the beginning and you will hear two sets of voices. Simply stop or start one session or the other using the sliding bar controls at the bottom of the page to eliminate the overlap. (Sorry, we are still learning how to use this technology)
June 30, 2011	Principles and Contextually/Culturally Relevant Programs/Practices to Prevent Substance Abuse among Aboriginal Youth This session will discuss how school-based and school-linked substance abuse programs can be developed and implemented in culturally relevant ways with the leadership and involvement of aboriginal students, schools and communities. Panel members will draw from several sources, including the Indigenous School Health framework developed by CASH in partnership with the NCC on Aboriginal School Health with leadership provided by indigenous nations, tribes and communities from around the world as well similar documents on empowering aboriginal youthandsupporting aboriginal families. Discussants will identify the key aspects of indigenous contexts and cultures that should be addressed in school substance abuse prevention programs. Free Access, Sponsored by a Health Canada project led by the Council on Drug Abuse	Click here to access the digital recording of the session. Click here to access this web page listing background and discussion materials for this webinar or web meeting.
June 21, 2011	Towards an Updated Comprehensive Model of School Sexual Health Promotion Jenny Owen, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK (Author of 2010 Health Technology Assessment of school-based and school-linked sexual health services) Jenny Walsh, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society La Trobe University on the Australian whole school framework This session will explore the different features of various statements, guidelines, models of comprehensive, coordinated and whole school frameworks for multiple interventions to promote sexual health. Although there are several recent international statements and guidelines on school sexual health education, there are few such descriptions of comprehensive, multi-intervention programs since they were first published in Canada and elsewhere in the 1990’s. Subsequent sessions will examine the evidence supporting multi-intervention programs in school sexual health promotion. Free Access, Sponsored by the Sexual Health & STI Section, Public Health Agency of Canada	Click here to access this web page listingbackground and discussion materialsfor this webinar or web meeting. Click here to access thedigital recordingor slides of this web meeting discussion
June 10, 2010	Linking Sustainability & Health: Some Selected Innovative Programs Daniel Fisher, UNESCO Chair Environmental Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany This session highlighted specific programs, policies and practices that have simultaneous impacts on human health and environmental sustainability. The focus will be on the nature of the program, how it developed and how partnerships were established with the different advocates and sectors promoting health, economic development, environmental sustainability and other aspects of human development.	Click here to access the digital recording or slides of this web meeting discussion. Please note that the recording started early, so please slide the control at the bottom of the screen to the 20 minute mark, when the presentation actually starts.)
June 3, 2010	Human Health and Environmental Sustainability: UNESCO Efforts Bernard Combes, UN Education for Sustainable Development Program, UNESCO The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), for which UNESCO is the lead agency, seeks to integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning, in order to address the social, economic, cultural and environmental problems we face in the 21st century. This webinar will describe the activities of theUNESCO Associated Schools program. In particular, the webinar will focus on UNESCO's 2009 Collection of Best Practices in Education for Sustainable Developmentand the similar 2009UNESCO advice for policy-makerson education for sustainable development	Click here to access the digital recording or slides of this web meeting discussion.
May 27, 2010	Health & Equity: A context for more equity: Low income communities Charles Basch,Richard March Hoe Professor of Health & Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA TheWHO Commission on Social Determinants of Healthhas identified the need for the health and other sectors to address poverty and disadvantage. AWHO Technical Committee meetingin 2007 called for action to address disadvantage in several contexts, including low income countries, aboriginal communities, communities disrupted by war and low income communities in high and middle income countries. This webinar will examine an agenda of issues and relevant programs for low income countries in these more affluent countries.	Click here to access this web page listing background and discussion materials for this webinar or web meeting. Click here to access the digital recording or slides of this web meeting discussion.
May 18, 2010	Linking health, equity and sustainability while building capacity for change Blake Poland, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto This session will introduce all of the key concepts of the 2010 International School Health symposium, showing why these three aspects of human and sustainable development need to be addressed in a coherent way. The complexities of ecological and systems-based approaches to settings such as schools will also be discussed in order to show how specific programs and practical actions are more powerful when they are situated within long-term plans based on deep understandings about the local situations and forces blocking progress.	Click here to access this web page listing background and discussion materials for this webinar or web meeting. Click here to access the digital recording or slides of this web meeting discussion.
January 20, 2009	Towards Monitoring Results in Health Education: Concepts, Measures and Work in Progress Koji Miayamoto, Analyst, Centre on Education Research & Innovation, OECD Katherine Wilbur, National Health Education Manager, Alliance for a Healthier Generation Christine Beyer,Health Education Consultant, Department of Education, South Carolina Nancy Hudson, Coordinator, Health Education Assessment Project, Council of Chief State School Officers Health education is a mandatory subject for students in almost all school systems and the social role of the school in promoting health and citizenship has been recognized as a critical component of effective schooling. This extended webinar session will explore how countries and states can develop monitoring systems in health education to ensure that their curricula and instructional programs are achieving intended results in regards to student learning. The session will begin with a presentation on the OECD "Social Outcomes of Learning" (SOL) project overview and Key Findings. Then participants will learn about the key concepts in measuring basic health literacy, higher levels of knowledge and skills and exploratory vocational programs leading to health and related careers. Work which has been done in two US states will be highlighted and the support to US states provided by the CCSSO programwill be described.	Click here to access this web page listing background and discussion materials for this webinar or web meeting. Click here to access the digital recording or slides of this web meeting discussion.
Jan. 13, 2009	National Monitoring & Reporting Systems: Case Study: United States Dr. Laura Kann,Chief, Surveillance and Evaluation Research Branch, Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA This session will highlight some of the monitoring and reporting activities undertaken in the United States, including the Youth Risk Behavior Survey and the School Health Policies and Programs Study as well as related tools such as state School Health Profiles. The session will highlight how this data is disseminated and used in several states as well as at the national level.	Click here to access this web page listing background and discussion materials for this webinar or web meeting. Click here to access the digital recording or slides of this web meeting discussion.