1. Building the Foundation: A Toolkit for Healthy Environments

2. Using The FSNE Toolkit Collaborator Training Presentation Slides
This power point presentation has been created for your use in collaborator and train-the-trainer presentations using the FSNE Toolkit to promote policy, system and environmental changes that can be made in preschools, Judy Centers, classrooms and out of school programs.

3. Using The FSNE Toolkit Collaborator Training Presentation Slides
Before using the slide presentation, you will want to modify the slide contents to address your collaborators: preschool and Judy Center teachers, school classroom teachers and school staff including administrators, librarians, health educators and other subject specialists and out of school program providers.

4. Using The FSNE Toolkit Collaborator Training Presentation Slides
Familiarize yourself with any wellness policy activities currently underway at the site.
Promote contents that will enhance PSE change
Are there existing motivators for behavior change at the site(trying to reach green level status, etc.)

5. Using The FSNE Toolkit Collaborator Training Presentation Slides
The toolkit contents allows you to adapt the slides to your collaborators:
Tailor the toolkit contents to the collaborators at your site
Prioritize the toolkit contents to share – which changes will your site be most willing to adapt?

6. Using The FSNE Toolkit Collaborator Training Presentation Slides
Use dialogue learning format for discussion. Summarize discussions and focus on positive actions that can result. Assist collaborators in setting realistic goals for PSE changes specific to their site.

7. Using The FSNE Toolkit Collaborator Training Presentation Slides
The toolkit presentation slides can be adapted to be used in various ways:
During a staff meeting
At the end of a training
Summarized and included in follow-up s with website information

8. Using The FSNE Toolkit Collaborator Training Presentation Slides
Transition slide

9. FSNE Toolkit
The “toolkit” is a series of resources to help teachers enhance their schools healthy eating and physical activity environments.
The goal of these resources is the implementation of policy, system and environmental (PSE) change at the classroom level.

10. Teacher Roles
Teachers have a role in empowering students to make healthy choices.
Lessons and activities shape how students approach health and wellness.
Teachers can facilitate the development of lasting healthy behaviors by offering healthy eating occasions and time to be physically active.

11. Toolkit Content Areas (as of November 2016)
Be A Role Model
Be Active
Gardening for Nutrition
Healthy Beverages
Healthy Celebrations
Classroom – Cafeteria Connection
Promotional Events and Monthly Themes
Worksite Wellness
Resources

12. FSNE Toolkit

13. Be A Role Model
Teachers who role model healthy behaviors in their classroom can have an enormous impact on choices children make related to healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.
Children are more likely to embrace and adopt habits if they see adults in their lives demonstrate these same healthy behaviors.

14. Be A Role Model
For this activity, please stand up and form a line in the front of the room. Count off by 4’s. Now form 4 new groups.

15. Be A Role Model
In your group, share ways you are a role model to your students and their families and identify an area to improve as a role model.

16. Be A Role Model Who would like to share?
What are some ways you are a role model to your students, their families and other school staff?
After today, how do you plan to further your role as a classroom role model for your students?

17. Teachers as Role Models Example PSE’s
Model healthy eating behaviors by consuming healthy foods and beverages.
Participate in nutrition education classroom tasting activities.
Share positive out-of-the–classroom healthy eating experiences with students.
Walk during recess and lunch time with students.
Eat lunch in the cafeteria with students.

18. Be Active
Children should engage in physical activity every day. Research has shown that physical activity and movement throughout the day can help youth improve their concentration, memory and classroom behavior. It is recommended that children participate in at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity every day.

19. Be Active
Physical activity and movement can be broken up into small segments of 5-10 minutes each.
Short movements can:
Get students energized
Help students focus on learning
Help with attention, memory and cognition
Aide cardiovascular function and metabolism

20. Be Active
For this activity, please stand up and walk around the room and find the other attendees with the same food sticker on their name badge.

21. Be Active
In your group, please discuss ways you can have the children add movement to their day. Can you think of a way to add movement during discussion of specific subjects? Can you think of ways to add movements or short physical activity breaks between subjects?

22. Be Active Who would like to share?
What are some ways you can add movement and short physical activity breaks in your classroom?

23. Be Active Example PSE’s
Incorporate five-minute physical activity breaks during the morning announcements to the entire school or just your classroom.
End each day with a few minutes of physical activity.
Create a “healthy behaviors” section on the classroom bulletin board.
Offer non-food incentives or a competition between classes/teachers for achieving activity goals.

24. Healthy Celebrations
Celebrations are great opportunities to promote a healthy lifestyle, provide a consistent message and create excitement around nutritious choices.
When food is part of a special event, offer a variety of healthy options including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products and water.

25. Healthy Celebrations
Turn to the person sitting next to you and discuss:
the special events and holidays you celebrate in your classroom and the ways you celebrate these special events.

26. Healthy Celebrations Who would like to share?
What are some ways you can have healthy classroom celebrations?
Which idea will you try in your classroom?

27. Healthy Celebrations Example PSE’s
Encourage parents to provide fruits, vegetables and whole grain snacks for classroom events. Provide parents with a “wish list” of healthy celebration food items.
Consider extra recess or class games for a non-food celebration.
Invite a “special guest” to spend classroom time interacting with the students as a reward.
Consider having students create edible “food art” for classroom celebrations.

28. Healthy Beverages
Access to drinking water throughout the day gives students an opportunity to stay hydrated which may improve their cognitive function, dental and physical health.

29. Healthy Beverages
For this activity, we are going to divide into groups based on color. Using the colored index card on your table, walk around the room and find others with the same colored index card.

30. Healthy Beverages With the members of your new group, discuss:
the types of beverages allowed in your classroom and the ways you can encourage students to bring or select healthy beverages.

31. Healthy Beverages Who would like to share?
What are some ways you can have healthy beverages available in your classroom?
What do you plan to try in your classroom to allow students to have access to water?

32. Healthy Beverages Example PSE’s
Encourage students to carry water bottles throughout the school day.
Include age-appropriate size water bottles on the list of items parents can donate to the classroom.
Reinforce the importance of drinking water throughout classroom lessons.
Have students create healthy beverage posters to be placed in the classroom, hallways, and on doors.

33. Gardening for Nutrition
The benefits of gardening programs in schools are numerous and varied. Gardening programs provide education and outreach to build school and community awareness of local foods and encourage consumption of fruits and vegetables through gardening.

34. Gardening for Nutrition
In addition to gardens, schools can partner with local farmers, and encourage the consumption of local produce to gain a better knowledge of farming, healthy eating, local foods and seasonality. 

35. Gardening for Nutrition
For this activity, please walk around the room and find a partner who you have not worked with today.

36. Gardening for Nutrition
With your partner, discuss ways you can incorporate farm to school programming in your classroom teaching and activities.

37. Gardening for Nutrition
Who would like to share?
What are some ways you can add farm to school activities to your classroom throughout the school year?
How do you plan to incorporate farm to school programming into your classroom in the next month?

38. Gardening for Nutrition Example PSE’s
Celebrate Maryland Homegrown School Lunch Week during the second week of September. Discuss local produce offered in the school cafeteria.
During October, plan National Farm to School activities including tasting local fall produce available at Farmers’ Markets.

39. Classroom – Cafeteria Connection
Coming Soon!

40. Promotional Events & Monthly Themes
Coming Soon!

41. Worksite Wellness
Coming Soon!

42. FSNE Toolkit: Resources
Resources for each section of the toolkit will eventually be available on the site.
Resources provided offer suggestions to promote healthy behaviors in preschool, classrooms, throughout the school, in out of school programs and at home.

43. What are your questions?

44. Toolkit is located online at:

45. Toolkit information Toolkit information