and social outcomes. Enhancing quality of life and positively changing social indicators are ultimate desired outcomes of health education and promotion.This emphasis on health, social,economic,and other environmental factors as determinants of students readiness to learn gives credence to school health as a vehicle for accomplishing the mission of schooling. It is the articulation and employment of a continuous-improvement, health-promotion process that will bridge barriers between school health and the mission of schooling and lead to broader, more longterm outcomes related to graduation rates, truancy, school connectedness,sense of safety,and elimination of health and education disparities. Thus,we must begin the process of health promotion in schools with these outcomes in mind.