What is SCHOOL?
Great question! The most basic explanation is that the SCHOOL framework is a series of steps that will guide a group or wellness champion through developing, initiating, evaluating and maintaining an employee wellness program.
Need more? The letter-by-letter synopsis is as follows:
S – Structure of Leadership Support: The who, what, where, when, why and how case for a wellness program
- Useful strategies for engaging leaders and other colleagues in the issue of workplace wellness and plans for taking action
- Creating a vision and mission statement for wellness at the leadership level
- Setting leadership goals for wellness
- Identifying wellness readiness and capacity for change
C – Committee of Wellness: Steps and resources for creating or maintaining a wellness committee
- Types of committees and committee structures and roles and responsibility examples
- Representation and community partners interested in supporting school wellness
- Communications planning ideas and examples
- Recruitment and retention ideas
H – Health Assessments: Tools for marking baseline and benchmarking change as well as educating employees about their own health
- Health screening tools
- Interest and willingness surveys
- Setting benchmarks and intentions for programming
- Information on confidentiality considerations
O – Outline of Plan and Action: Strategic planning of initiatives
- Brainstorming activities and sources of inspiration
- Ideas for programs, initiatives and services based upon employee wellness interests and willingness
- Resources for budgeting
- Local business and community support opportunities
O – Operation of Plan and Action: Turning your plans into actions
- Day-to-day support and tools
- Checklists and how-to guidelines
- Volunteer information
- Communication and promotion of a program, initiative, activity or event
L – Learning and Progressing: Assessing initiatives, programs and activities to evaluate their impact and communicating the results
- Program evaluation tools and feedback models
- Managing committee retention
- Processes for integrating and sharing feedback