SPHS & Challenge Success:
A Partnership for Healthy, Well Balanced Students
Our Mission Statement: In 2016, we chose to partner with Challenge Success to examine what a healthy and balanced high school experience looks like and how the perceived stressful race to college and beyond is increasing anxiety and stress in our children.  We are committed to partner with our families so that together, we will raise students to be independent, adaptable, ethical, and engaged as well as being healthy, motivated, and happy.  ​

What is Challenge Success?
​Challenge Success evolved from the Stressed Out Students Project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. It works with schools and families to develop research-based strategies that provide students with the academic, social, and emotional skills needed to succeed now and in the future.
Our Priority Areas for 2022-2023
​Parent Education - We will have many evening events for parents (and students). Including, but not limited to:
  • September 6, 2022 - Generation Sleepless : Why TWEENS and TEENS Aren't Sleeping Enough and How We Can Help Them. Psychotherapist and sleep specialist Heather Turgeon will speak to our parents on zoom on September 6th and then to students at an assembly during the school day on September 7th..
  • TBD - College Stress - We will educate parents about this stress and provide ways to alleviate it, as well as give a practical timeline of how to prepare for college applications throughout high school.
  • TBD - Counselors - Everything You Always Wanted To Know About the Many Things Counselors Do For Your Kids
  • Parent Discussion Groups  - A time to discuss relevant topics to our student's well-being. We are aiming to have one every month or so.

Workload
  • A subcommittee of students and teachers will be created to figure out how to increase engagement at school, so it feels more meaningful

Sleep
  • Investigate whether school activities could change to encourage more sleep and the work/life balance in its relation to sleep for students
  • Also, see above Parent Education

I Wish My Teachers Knew - Student Campaign​​​

I Wish Other Students Knew - Student Campaign
RSVP to see Heather Turgeon, author of "Generation Sleepless" on Tuesday, September 6 @ 6:30pm on ZOOM
Newly created "I Wish My Parents Knew" Video by the students at SPHS
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Parents hoped this school year might be ‘normal.’ It hasn’t turned out that way | Washington Post

Beyond the Classroom: Celebrating the Late Bloomer | NAIS

Why You Shouldn't Go To Harvard | Malcolm Gladwell

Other Recommended
Click on the image below to see what South Pasadena High School has already done to benefit students.