Coordinated School Health
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Coordinated School Health (CSH) connects physical, emotional, and social health with education through eight inter-related components. This coordinated approach improves students' health and their capacity to learn through the support of families, communities and schools working together. Coordinated School Health works with many partners to address school health priorities. Simply put, healthy students are better learners.
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Health Education
Health Education is a planned, sequential, pre k-12 curriculum and program that addresses the physical, mental, and emotional and social dimensions of health. WCS integrates programs and activities into students’ daily lives that assist the student to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors.
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Health Services
Health Services are provided and supervised by the school health nurses to appraise, protect, and promote the health of students. The WCS school nurses connect health care and education to provide holistic care for our students.
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Nutrition
Food Services assures access to a variety of nutritious, affordable, and appealing meals in school that accommodate the health and nutrition needs of all students. In addition, WCS schools have nutritional programs and health education that help students develop skills and habits in selecting nutritionally appropriate foods, and services as a resource and link with nutrition-related community services and educational programs.
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Physical Education/Physical Activity
Physical Education is a planned, sequential prek-12 curriculum program that follows national standards in providing developmentally appropriate, cognitive content, and learning experiences in a variety of physical activity areas, such as basic movement skills; physical fitness; rhythm and dance; cooperative games; team, dual and individual sports. WCS has incorporated an activity bus that contains activities and games to promote physical activity within the student and staff population.
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Healthy School Environment
The Healthy School Environment component relates to the quality of the physical and aesthetic surrounding; the psychosocial climate, safety, and culture of the school; the school safety and emergency plans: and the periodic review and testing of the factors and conditions that influence the environment. WCS continually assesses and updates the school environment to provide a safe learning environment.
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School Counseling, Psychological and Social Services
Counseling, mental health, and social services are provided to assess and improve the mental, emotional, and social health of every student. All WCS students have access to these services, including developmental classroom guidance activities, and preventive educational programs, in order to enhance and promote academic, personal, and social growth.
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Student, Family, and Community Involvement
Involvement of students, parents, community representatives, health specialists, and volunteers in schools provides an integrated approach for enhancing the health and well-being of students at school and in the community.
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School Staff Wellness
Teacher and other school employees are charged with educating and caring for one of our most precious assets – our students. Therefore, it is imperative that student employees are supported in their efforts to stay healthy and active so they can do their job most effectively. WCS offers our employees a positive work environment to provide our students with the best education possible.
Teachers meet once a month in the Grassland Middle School library for yoga taught by GMS Art Teacher Alli Taylor.
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Mini golf reward program
The WCS Coordinated School Health program is encouraging elementary students to get outside and get active.
WCS elementary students can play a free round of mini golf at SOAR Adventure in Franklin. To be eligible, a student just has to show some sort of proof he or she attends a WCS elementary school like a school t-shirt or some other form of spirit wear. In addition, students can earn four more opportunities for free rounds of mini golf throughout the school year by earning an A on each report card.
The district kicked off this exciting new opportunity with a mini golf competition on September 28. Administrators and student representatives from each school teamed up to see who could get the lowest score, with Grassland Elementary coming in first place. More detailed information can be found on the News page of your student's elementary school website.







































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Tennessee’s Coordinated School Health Initiative
The Tennessee Department of Education works in collaboration with the Tennessee Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement Coordinated School Health (CSH) in Tennessee. Based upon passage of The Coordinated School Health Improvement Act of 1999, Chapter 554 and the subsequent 2006 Public Chapter 1001, CSH was created and funded with state budget dollars to implement CSH to all school systems in Tennessee. Funds support the development of a local infrastructure to promote health and wellness for all students and staff and thereby decrease barriers that prevent students from achieving their full academic potential. For additional information visit The Department of Education Coordinated School Health website.
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Coordinated School Health Activity Bus
Loaded with lots of fun games and activities, the bus will travel to each elementary school in the district with the goal of getting students to be active and healthy.
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Gary Anderson
Executive Director Health and Safety
615-472-4004Mandi Thompson, BSN, NCSN
District Nursing and CSH Supervisor
615-472-4028Kristen Clifford, RN, BSN
School Health Coordinator
615-472-4089Ashley Filippo-DeGuire, RN, BSN
School Health Coordinator
615-472-4157Kim Haynie
Health Services Department Assistant
615-472-4086