1. School Health and Physical Education

2. Jamie Sparks @JamieSparksCSH Audra Deli-Hoofnagle @AudraCSH #KYSHAPE #KYCSH #KYPAL #KYSWARM
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3. Partners Water Bottle Sneaker Pedometer PAL Training_PPT Deck
Three sets of partners for the day’s activities
Learning Partners
Ask participants to find their learning partner card. Instruct everyone to stand. Ask individuals to find a person in the room who they don’t know or don’t know well, introduce themselves to one another and then agree to be learning partners.
Note: if the group is small (25 or less), use two partner icons rather than three.
October 2013

4. Local Wellness Policy Its Purpose and Its Power
Local Wellness Policy Training Workshop
Division of School & Community Nutrition and Coordinated School Health
Fall, 2014

5. What is a Local Wellness Policy (LWP)?
An important tool for parents, LEAs and school districts in:
promoting school wellness.
preventing and reducing childhood obesity.
providing assurance that school meal nutrition guidelines meet the minimum federal school meal standards.

6. Legal Authority Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004
Reauthorization Act of 2010: Healthy, Hunger- Free Kids Act
New Local Wellness Policy Proposed Rule is currently under review- tentative effective date: July 1, 2015

7. Purpose of a Local Wellness Policy
Obesity is a preventable disease.
Check out the growth
of obesity in the US
over the past 25 years!

8. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1985
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)

9. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2009
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% %–29% ≥30%

10. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2010
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% %–29% ≥30%

11. Childhood Obesity in Kentucky
Childhood obesity is defined as a BMI at or above the 95th
percentile for children of the same age and sex.

12. The purpose of the Local School Wellness Policy is to help create a school environment that promotes nutrition and physical activity to help stop increasing obesity rates.

13. The purpose of the Local School Wellness Policy is to help create a school environment that promotes nutrition and physical activity to help ALL STUDENTS LEARN BETTER, ACHIEVE MORE AND SUCCEED IN SCHOOL.

14. Process Check Water Bottle
PAL Training_PPT Deck
Process Check
Does district policy have an impact on students and staff?
What do you think is the greatest potential for effective wellness policies for education outcomes?
What do you think is the greatest potential for effective wellness policies for health outcomes?
Water Bottle
October 2013

15. Implementation Timeline
Targeted Proposed Rule Implementation Date.
July 2015
SAs review LEA’s Local Wellness Policy during an Administrative Review to ensure that all requirements are met.
SY 13-14
LEAs should begin working toward implementing new requirements established by the HHFKA.
SY 11-12
HHFKA places new provisions on Local Wellness Policies. Greater emphasis on implementation, evaluation, and publicly reporting on progress.
2010
Districts required to establish a Local Wellness Policy.
2006
Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act is passed, which requires all LEAs participating in the NSLP to create Local Wellness Policies by 2006.
2004

16. Current Federal Requirements
Each LEA participating in NSLP (or other CN programs) must establish a local school wellness policy for all schools under its jurisdiction.
Each LEA must designate one or more officials to ensure that each school complies with the local wellness policy.

17. What is required in Kentucky schools?
Federal: 2004 Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act - Local Wellness Policy
KRS K-5 Wellness Policy
KRS Nutrition and PA report
KRS The Kentucky accountability system includes program reviews for practical living and career studies (PL/CS)
*PLCS Program Review has multiple references to the CSH model and specifically identifies CSH committees as part of the school culture. PL/CS Program Review will help schools develop a sustainable CSHP.

18. TEAM TIME: What about your district?
Who has been involved in the District Wellness Policy?
How many SBDM’s have passed a School Wellness Policy?
What information and data is included in the Nutrition and PA report ? Who does the report?
How are your schools doing with the health education and physical education elements of the PLCS Program Review?

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22. Program Review & Wellness Policy Connection
Demonstrator 1. Policies and Monitoring
School leadership establishes and monitors implementation of policies, provides adequate resources, facilities, space and instructional time to support highly effective PLCS instructional programs.

23. CSH in Program Review: Curriculum and Instruction
A Coordinated School Health committee utilizes a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program
(CSPAP) to increase the quality of the physical education instruction as well as increase physical activity opportunities throughout the school environment.

24. District Wellness Policy
Program Review
District Wellness Policy
School Wellness Policy

25. How to put it all together and give it the power to succeed.
Local Wellness Policy
Build a Strong Team
Assess Your Needs/ Environment
Draft Policy
Adopt Policy
Implement Policy
Measure and Evaluate
Communicate Results

26. Build a Strong Team
Build a Strong Team
Publicly announce committee formation so others know to join if interested.
Build Committee Framework:
Decide a meeting time and place.
Create a template for notes and documentation.
Ideas for Committee Members: Parents, Students, Representatives of SFA, School Board members, School Administrators, Teachers (including PE and School Health Professionals), and the Public

27. Assess Your Needs/ Environment
Perform an assessment of your school nutrition environment.
Examples of a few assessments:
WellSAT (
Alliance for a Healthier Generation- Healthier Schools Program Inventory
Use your assessment to determine what should go into your policy.

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35. TEAM TIME: What about your district?
What is your district’s score?
How does it compare to other district’s scores in this region?
How can the WellSAT tool be utilized to improve your district’s wellness policy?

36. Draft Your Policy What must be included…
Draft a Policy
What must be included…
1. Specific goals for nutrition promotion and education, physical activity, and other school-based activities that promote student wellness;
2. Nutrition guidelines to promote student health and reduce childhood obesity for all foods made available in each school district;
3. Permit parents, students, representatives of the SFA, teachers of physical education, school health professionals, school board members, school administrators, and the general public to participate in the development, implementation, and the review and update of the policy;
4. Inform and update the public about the content and implementation of the wellness policy;
5. Be measured periodically on the extent to which the LEA is in attaining the goals it set for wellness and make this assessment available to the public.

37. Public Notification
Ensure that the public is made aware of the efforts of your committee with regard to the local wellness policy.
The public must be informed of the local wellness policy: updates, goals reached, assessment and ways to be involved.

38. Adopt Policy
Adopt Policy
Once your team has drafted or revised a policy and worked to gain support of key stakeholders, the team faces challenges of getting the school board or other governing body to approve it.
Things to consider:
What is policy adoption process for district?
Timeline to get the local wellness policy reviewed and on agenda?
Does the local wellness policy impact other policies?
Are there costs related to the policy being adopted?
What are benefits to adopting policy?
Successful policies have the full support and understanding of all parties involved!

39. Implement Policy Making the policy work:
Establish realistic time frames.
Specify an individual(s) to be responsible for evaluating and enforcing.
Find and share resources on school wellness activities.
Use an action plan to specify what data will be collected and used to assess progress.

40. Measure and Evaluate Considerations: What are you measuring?
Can you list 3 ways your district has been working to meet local wellness policy goals?
What has been accomplished?
How many schools, students, staff, parents, etc. participated in events and programs?
Did you do what you planned to do?
How often does the committee review the policy and plan?

41. Lastly, Communicate the Results
Inform the public (including parents, students and others in the community) about the content and implementation of the local wellness policy.
Proactive communication will inform, educate, and build district wellness efforts.
Communication methods:
Website
District communications:
Automated phone calls, s, texts
Student handouts
Parent mailings
Student handbooks
Local newspaper, television and media outlets

42. TEAM TIME: What about your district?
How does your district measure and evaluate it’s current wellness policy?
How does it communicate the results of the annual nutrition and physical activity report?

43. Questions?

44. Process Check Sneaker With your sneaker partner:
PAL Training_PPT Deck
Process Check
With your sneaker partner:
Share a new idea related to wellness policy.
How will your district engage additional team members for this process and who?
What process for measuring and communicating results would work best in your school district?
Sneaker
October 2013

45. schools.healthiergeneration.org

46. Healthy Schools Program in Kentucky
Graduated HSP sites
Rural Delta
On Jacy’s List
Tracey’s Recently Added
On Tracey’s List
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47. PROGRAM REVIEW ALIGNMENT
HEALTHY HUNGER FREE KID ACT
2014 Healthy Schools Program Framework
Sample PA/Nutrition Report

48. Pedometer Find your pedometer partner.
PAL Training_PPT Deck
Find your pedometer partner.
Discuss benefits of the Healthy Schools Program from the viewpoint of:
School administrator
Food Service Director
District assessment/instructional supervisor
State Dept of Education
Pedometer
Content Knowledge, Leadership, Communications and Promotion, Collaboration
Ask participants, individually, to think about and answer these questions:
“What compels you to become a PAL, why do you want to lead this initiative?” Write down one of the PAL competencies that you are skilled at. Identify one of the PAL competencies that you would like to develop further. Write your answers in your PAL process guide. We will return to these in a few minutes.
October 2013

49. ACTION PLAN