🎙️ Sleep, Screens, & Student Well-Being

About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of sleep and screen time on children's learning and mental health with experts in the field.

😴📱 Sleep and screen time play a powerful—and often underestimated—role in how children learn, behave, and feel each day. In this episode of The West Ada Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Eric Roy of St. Luke’s Children’s Treasure Valley Pediatrics and Tracey Garner, the district’s Health Services Supervisor, to unpack the real questions families and educators are asking about student sleep, screen use, and mental health. 🧠 The conversation explores the connection between sleep and learning, anxie...

People in this episode

Host: West Ada School District

Guests: Dr. Eric Roy, Tracey Garner

Topics covered

• sleep
• screen time
• student well-being
• mental health
• education
• learning

Keywords

• sleep
• screen time
• student well-being
• mental health
• education
• learning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: St. Luke’s Children’s Treasure Valley Pediatrics

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