Ward Melville High helps staff de-stress with relaxing music, soft lighting (Newsday)

Karen Clemmer 9/30/195:19 PM

By Joie Tyrrell for Newsday, September 29, 2019

District officials are touting a newly created wellness room at Ward Melville High School as a lesson in serenity, where the surroundings help teachers and staff de-stress over the course of a hectic workday.

The "WellVille" classroom, part of the wellness program in the Three Village school district, has been transformed into an "experience," with soft lighting, relaxing music, and lounge chairs, school officials said. The room, believed to be unique among Long Island schools, opened this month.

"I have always believed that if you have happy, healthy teachers, that trickles down to happy, healthy children — and guess who that trickles down to? Happy, healthy parents," said Debbi Rakowsky, the district's wellness social worker who wrote the proposal for the program and designed the space.

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