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Integrating health care at school

The PI practice of Systems Thinking encourages collaboration within and across organizational boundaries. This video describes how Avondale Elementary School District (AESD) and Bayless Integrated Healthcare provided an innovative example of systems thinking which reduces student absenteeism through organizational collaboration. Use this video and the accompanying questions to prompt a classroom discussion around how schools can reach outside their own walls to enhance the flourishing of all members of the learning community.

   Video

   20 minutes

   By: Principled Innovation® (PI)

   Educator-prep | Leader-prep


Making connections:

Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

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