RE peer educators kick off health education
More than four dozen RE juniors and seniors launched the 2018-19 Health Information Project at Ransom Everglades on Oct. 18. The junior and senior leaders, known as Peer Health Educators, have undergone training with HIP, a Miami-based health education non-profit that empowers students to take ownership of important health and wellness issues.
RE's Peer Health Educators met with the school's freshman class during the advisory period to present the first of eight teaching modules for the school year. HIP, created in 2009 to improve the student health education model in high schools, offers a student-taught curriculum that covers topics including drugs and alcohol, mental health, sexuality and nutrition. The goal is to promote safe, healthy, informed and thoughtful choices.
HIP, which is currently partnering with 57 other Miami-Dade County public and independent high schools, has provided training for juniors and seniors to assist more than 33,000 ninth-grade students during the 2018-19 school year.
Albert Adatto, a member of the mathematics and computer science faculty, has served since HIP's start at RE as the faculty sponsor. Ilija Wan-Simm '19 is president and Jake Schwartz '19, Margo Squire '19, Joseph Bolduc '19, Maggie McDowell '19 and Nikki Jagid '19 are board members.
RE's Peer Health Educators
| Ilija Wan-Simm '19 |
| Jake Schwartz '19 |
| Margo Squire '19 |
| Joseph Bolduc '19 |
| Maggie McDowell '19 |
| Nikki Jagid '19 (board) |
| Abigail Roberts '19 |
| Ada Hevia '19 |
| Alex Mendelson '19 |
| Aliya Hollub '19 |
| Anderson Murphy '19 |
| Calliste Skouras '19 |
| Carlos Souffront '19 |
| Eliza Kirk '19 |
| Emma Danon '19 |
| Grace Waibel '19 |
| Jessica Lee '19 |
| Julia Bernstein '19 |
| Julia Johansson '19 |
| Luke Elegant '19 |
| Marley Rywell '19 |
| Matthew Rocha '19 |
| Oliver Stern '19 |
| Salma Zreik '19 |
| Sarah Rahman '19 |
| Sunna Martinsdottir '19 |
| Wes Cusack '19 |
| Abby Sekoff '20 |
| Alec Leyva '20 |
| Annabel Franklin '20 |
| Asher Lieberman '20 |
| Cornelia Ehlebracht '20 |
| David Civantos '20 |
| Emilia Decker '20 |
| Ernesto Poma '20 |
| Hallie Leeds '20 |
| Jack Fitzpatrick '20 |
| Katie McKenney '20 |
| Lucas Allraum '20 |
| Maia Gold '20 |
| Meredith Hutchinson '20 |
| Mia Landman '20 |
| Nick Namias '20 |
| Preston Edmunds '20 |
| Robert Moret '20 |
| Ryan Ellison '20 |
| Tea Elbaz '20 |
| Vashti Claybrook '20 |
| Viv Freyer '20 |
| Willa Tom '20 |
| Yasmina Haddad '20 |
| Zoe Tsoukas '20 |
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.