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Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. It is a full day set aside for students, teachers, and staff in Jordan School District to prioritize their health and wellness at home and in school. The second annual Health and Wellness Day is Friday, February 10th. And while there will be no in-person school for students that day, they are invited to participate in a Wellness Quest with family and friends. On this episode of the Supercast, we explain what the Wellness Quest is and how something called the "SELFIE" model is at the heart of the Wellness Quest curriculum.

We're here in our little studio talking to Casey Pehrson, the school psychologist at Herriman High School. Casey, thanks for joining us.

Casey Pehrson:
Glad to be here. Thanks for having me.

Anthony Godfrey:
Health and Wellness Day is coming up. It's our second annual Health and Wellness Day, which is set aside to focus on the health and wellness of our staff members, our parents, and our students educated with Jordan School District. And we're just excited for that day and we want to really talk about how we can each focus more on our own personal health. Casey, you've developed a program called the “SELFIE" Method that you've presented over 150 times. You presented it to our administrators in our opening conference and it's an acronym that reminds us of all the things we ought to be doing to help keep ourselves healthy. So can you go through the acronym? Tell us a little bit about where it started and tell us about yourself as well.

Casey Pehrson:
Yeah, so as was mentioned, my name's Casey Pehrson. I'm the school psychologist and I'm at Herriman High School. And this is my eighth year at Herriman High but my ninth year in Jordan School District, so I've also worked at East Lake Elementary and South Hills Middle School. So the "SELFIE" method is an acronym that was actually kind of developed based on experience at all three levels of education. So in elementary, middle school, and high school. But in "SELFIE" the ‘S’ stands for sleep, the ‘E’ is for exercise, ‘L’ is for light, ‘F’ is for fun, ‘I’ is for interaction and ‘E’ is for eating right. And these are kind of elements of self-care. But really, I call it your ticket to thrive because when you do these things you feel better. But a lot of times these things fall to the bottom of the list. We don't take time for them.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah, they're at the bottom of my list I'm afraid.

Casey Pehrson:
You’re not the only one.

Anthony Godfrey:
They need to move up. They need to move up. So that's why we're here. Let's talk about let's just work our way through the list. Let's start with sleep.

Casey Pehrson:
Yeah, so sleep. We as a society, we stink at sleep. We're really bad at it. And we tend to stink at sleep in one of three distinct ways. So the number one way that we all stink at sleep is we don't get enough. So if you're not getting enough sleep at night, you're in the majority because that's a lot of us. So for elementary-age kids, they need 9 to 11 hours of sleep per night. For adolescents, they need