Lori has taught skill-based health education since 2002. She knows 7 of the 8 National Health Education Standards (NHES) align with life skills. Yet, not all of these life skills are taught in the same way.

Currently, Lori is researching how future health educators learn how to teach skill-based health education in which her current findings include:

Three (3) overall types of life skills aligning with the NHES:

Therefore, she created the Decision-Making Flowchart for Skill-based Health Education to help current and future health educators plan, instruct, and assess PreK-12 School Health Education:

Contact Lori at superhealthcrusader@gmail.com to learn more.

Stay tuned for more tools coming in 2026, including how to use the 5-step approach for the NHES!

One example includes: