Organization: Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
In drafting a Local School Wellness Policy, Residential Child Care Institutions (RCCIs) may choose to use statements from this model policy as written and/or revise them to meet local needs and reflect community priorities.
Organization: South Carolina Department of Education
Local school wellness policy tools including a checklist with the list of required components and best practices for each and an example of a district wellness policy triennial report.
Organization: UCONN Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health
The WellSAT 3.0 is a wellness policy scoring tool to help you compare your written local school wellness policy to a model policy. It provides a quantitative score that identifies areas of excellence and opportunities to strengthen your written policy. The WellSAT-I is an interview tool to help you measure the extent …
Organization: Office of the State Superintendent of Education
These resources are intended to position LEAs to meet and exceed all the requirements of the Local Wellness Policy (LWP), while also supporting LEAs in tracking all updates and implementation efforts on an annual basis. They include a LWP template, a guide on the background and requirements for the LWP, …
Organization: UCONN Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health
This resource assists LEAs with meeting the USDA’s triennial assessment requirements. It includes assessment requirements, steps for completing the triennial assessment process, and resources.
Organization: Healthier Generation
This training module will support district leaders in sustaining and implementing Local School Wellness Policy (LWP) efforts by providing technical assistance , professional development , and connecting to resources to support local districts and sch
TNTG Year:2017
Target audience: wellness committee, school administrators, school personnel Objectives Understand importance of collaborating with community health professionals. Identify health partners and how to connect to build healthy school environments
TNTG Year:2017
Class provides information on the development, structure and cognitive function of the brain, while highlighting nutrition’s impact on cognition and academic achievement; covers best practices on how schools can play a role in optimizing nutrition.
TNTG Year:2017
Target Audience - Schools, PE teachers, Health/Wellness teachers Class Objectives: -Define Brain Breaks, -Discuss benefits of Brain Breaks - Learn how to implement Brain Breaks - Brain Break Ideas -Tools and Resources for Schools
TNTG Year:2017
Schools can use this resource to help them find alternative options to food rewards. This resource outlines benefits of active rewards and includes ways to recognize achievement with physical activity rewards along with implementation tips.
TNTG Year:2017
Schools can use this resource to encourage walking or biking to school. This resource: - Outlines benefits of walking or biking to school - Provides tips to getting started and implementing - Addresses solutions to perceived challenges
TNTG Year:2017
This resource can be utilized to promote recess before lunch and encourage schools to increase unstructured physical activity during the school day. It explains the benefits of morning recess and outlines challenges and solutions to implementing.
Organization: Alliance for a Healthier Generation
This 20-minute micro learning will provide an overview of the USDA standards and nutrition guidelines that govern the sale of foods and beverages available to students on campus during the school day also known as Smart Snacks.
Organization: Friends of the Earth
The Organic School Food Roadmap is a practical “how-to” guide, developed to help school food service teams make organic purchasing decisions and overcome key challenges when buying organic foods.
TNTG Year:2017
A workshop to help school food service professionals and community members learn how a local school wellness policy can help create healthy environments.
TNTG Year:2014
Organization: SDSU Extension
This poster provides an overview of the PhotoVoice and Farmer's Grow MyPlate activities that were developed for students in grades 7-12 and k-4. The objective of these activities were to engage students in assessing the school lunchroom environment as well as to increase their nutrition knowledge and willingness to try …
Organization: Maryland State Department of Education
Engaging families in student health and wellness is essential for encouraging healthy behaviors at home and at school. Students with families who are actively engaged with their school are more likely to have better attendance, healthy behaviors, and higher academic achievement. This Parent Workshop is one of three in a …
Organization: Maryland State Department of Education
Engaging families in student health and wellness is essential for encouraging healthy behaviors at home and at school. Students with families who are actively engaged with their school are more likely to have better attendance, healthy behaviors, and higher academic achievement. This Parent Workshop is one of three in a …
Organization: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Serivces
This resource can assist members of the school community including principals, school food service, teachers, janitors and parents with implementing a schedule in which recess proceeds lunch. The toolkit provides the rationale for scheduling recess before lunch and easy to follow steps for implementing this concept.
Organization: Iowa Department of Education
This material was developed through a FY 2016 TNTG. Monthly newsletter featuring school wellness, school nutrition, and physical activity/education resources, training, and best practices.
Target audience: School Wellness Committee members and appropriate school staff Purpose: To provide resources and guidance on wellness policy development and implementation Includes: 1) Wellness Training Workshop 2) Team training with SHI focus 3) Model Wellness Policy 4) FACT SHEET: Wellness Policy Implementation 5) TEMPLATE: Triennial Assessment 6) FACT SHEET: …
Organization: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
This resource is designed to assist school districts with developing comprehensive policies that incorporate new policy requirements while establishing a framework for accountability. The resource provides information on required policy components and includes best practices that will assist schools with creating and maintaining a strong wellness policy.
Organization: Iowa Department of Education
A guide for LEAs to complete their School Wellness Policy Triennial Assessment
Organization: Iowa Department of Education
Resource to incorporate nutrition education and physical activity into the classroom. "This material was developed through a FY 2016 TNTG."