Health Literacy Month Resources for
Health & PE
Skills-based health education provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to make health-enhancing choices and lead a healthy lifestyle.
Health literacy is an important measure of the effectiveness of health education and is critical to ensuring that students have the ability to address their own health needs now and in the future.
During Health Literacy Month, we’d like to give a big shout out to our nation’s health education teachers — and HPE teachers — for their work teaching life-changing skills to young people. Thank you!
Health Education Resources
SHAPE America’s National Health Education Standards provide a comprehensive framework for educators to deliver high-quality instruction. Use the standards-based health education resources below to guide your skills-based health education instruction and make a difference in the health and well-being of your students.
Health Ed Now Flyer
School-based health education has undergone a significant shift — from content-heavy, topic-driven lessons to a more dynamic, skills-based approach.
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Health Ed 101 Parent Flyer
Health Education in Schools 101 is a parent-friendly overview of what students learn in health education and why it matters. It helps families understand the goals, topics and benefits of health education while addressing common questions about health education class.
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Connecting Health Education Skills in PE
Are you a PE teacher who is also responsible for health education? Learn how to incorporate health education skills into your instruction.
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Student-Friendly HE Standards Posters
This popular classroom tool for health and physical educators has been updated and redesigned to help students understand and use the new National Health Education Standards.
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Inclusive Practices in Health Education
This SHAPE America guidance document includes recommended actions and skills-based standards examples for creating an inclusive learning environment in health education.
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Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education
This SHAPE America guidance document articulates best practices in school-based health education that support the implementation of effective health education as a critical component of any school system.
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Professional Learning for Health Education
SHAPE America offers a wide range of standards-based webinars and workshops to support your growth as a health and physical educator, whether you want to explore the fundamentals, gain new insights, or dive into hands-on learning. View all professional development options.
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Supporting Multilingual Learners Through Skills-Based Health Education
Gain insight into inclusive best practices that effectively support multilingual learners in diverse classroom settings, while exploring practical, ready-to-use instructional strategies that can be used to create more equitable, engaging, and accessible health education experiences.
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Inclusive Practices in Health Education
Dive deep into practical teaching strategies and key resources for creating an inclusive classroom environment , including ideas on how to integrate culturally responsive practices in a skills-based health education curriculum.
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Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education
This six-part webinar series is a complement to SHAPE America’s popular Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education guidance document. The series provides a deeper dive and gives practical examples that assist health educators in applying appropriate practices to their own teaching and classrooms.
Yes, I’m Interested!From Our Journals
SHAPE America membership includes a subscription to one or more of our peer-reviewed journals, with in-depth coverage of news, trends, and best practices. Here are a few articles we’ve selected for Health Literacy Month.
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The Need for Accessible Health Education
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A Skills-Based Approach for Navigating Misinformation and Disinformation in the Health Education Classroom
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Critical Health Education for Weight Inclusivity in Schools: Part 2
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How Would You Treat a Friend? Part 2: Activities to Boost Self-Compassion Within School Health Curricula
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More Than Just Game-Day Fuel: The Mental-Health Benefits of Proper Nutrition
Free health. moves. minds. Resources for Health & PE
SHAPE America’s health. moves. minds.®, powered by Booster program combines physical education, health education, and character-building activities to help students develop skills that support their physical, mental, and social-emotional well-being — while helping your school raise meaningful funds.
For the 2026-2027 school year, The Kindness Code invites students to explore six essential skills — self-awareness, self-control, respect, empathy, perseverance, and leadership — and discover how those skills can help them build stronger relationships, make thoughtful decisions, and create positive change.
Explore the health. moves. minds. Lesson Library for free, ready-to-use lessons, mini-lessons, activities, and supporting resources for students in grades K-12.
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