Interim Assistant Superintendent for the Division of Health and Wellness
Rachel Sadlon serves as the Interim Assistant Superintendent for the Division of Health and Wellness at the 乌鸦传媒 of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE). In this role, she leads the agency’s school health and wellness portfolio which includes the administration of federal and local child nutrition programs, health and physical education, school-based mental health, and school health policy. In addition, Rachel leads OSSE’s strategic priority, Foster Student and Staff Well-being, where she oversees cross-cutting physical, mental, social-emotional health, and student attendance initiatives.
Directly prior, Rachel served as the Director of Healthy Schools and Wellness Programs for the Division of Health and Wellness since 2023. Rachel has proudly led teams in launching the Advancing the Recruitment and Retention of Our Workforce (ARROW) initiative to build DC’s school mental health workforce pipeline; redesigning the Whole Child and Educator Wellness grant program; overseeing implementation of the DC Environmental Literacy Plan; and coordinating training and technical assistance for health and physical education teachers on Healthy Schools Act requirements.
Prior to joining OSSE, Rachel served as the Associate Director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Before her time at CHHCS, Rachel worked for Middletown Public Schools in Middletown, CT, managing the federally funded Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant program. Rachel began her career in youth prevention programs and positive youth development in Connecticut. Rachel has 15 years’ experience in K-12 school health programs and services, prevention science, and community health.
Rachel attended the University of Connecticut, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Public Health degree. She earned a graduate certificate in Health Policy from the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES®) through the National Commission for health Education Credentialing, Inc.