Sleep Matters: Students’ Changing Sleep Clocks K-12 and School Start Times

DS School Start Time Task Force, DS Wellness Committee and

DS Challenge Success Present...

Sleep Matters: K-12 Students' Changing Sleep Clocks and School Start Times

Monday, March 4th

6:30 - 8:00pm

DSMS Choral Room, 2nd Floor Dover-Sherborn Middle School

Please join us for an informative evening with acclaimed sleep researcher and Sherborn resident, Dr. Chuck Czeisler, PhD, MD, FRCP. Dr. Czeisler will address the following topics:

The Science of Sleep
How the Sleep Cycle changes from elementary school to middle and high school
Sleep as it relates to health & wellness, academic & athletic performance, and student safety
Outcomes from schools that have adjusted start times

Immediately following Dr. Czeisler's presentation, there will be a School Start Time Q&A with DS Superintendent Dr. Andrew Keough, High School Headmaster John Smith, and Chickering School Principal Laura Dayal.

About the Speaker

Dr. Czeisler is a Stanford MD/PhD and the Director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, he works as Chief of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has spent over 30 years researching the relationship between human sleep and the physiology of the human circadian clock, and has earned numerous accolades and awards for his research in sleep medicine. For more information on Dr. Czeisler's work, please click on his Harvard Sleep Education link: http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/portal/ .

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This event is sponsored by DS School Start Time Task Force, DS Wellness Committee and DS Challenge Success.

DS Challenge Success is generously funded through a grant from DSEF and a private donation.