Patricia Suppe
Alvord USD
Healthy Schools - You can be the game changer
YOU, as a physical educator, can be the catalyst for change. YOU should play a key role in developing a culture in which physical activity and physical education are foundational to academic success. In this session participants will leave with strategies to develop a successful wellness program. YOU can empower your sites to create a healthier school environment.
Main Points:
1.How do you influence your school to create a culture that is healthy and positively affects teaching and learning?
2.There are multitudes of leaders in any school. How do we integrate these influences into a more coherent and less contradictory message on health?
3.Healthier kids have higher attendance rates, higher test scores, and healthier behaviors in class.
4.Inspiring Physical Educators and Health Educators to become Champions for Wellness
5.Motivate Physical Educators and Health Educators to be a catalyst for change in their school site environment.
6.To demonstrate how Physical Educators can play a key role in empowering sites to achieve Wellness goals
7.Helping to motivate schools to create healthier active living communities
8.To share with Physical Educators and Health Educators how they can help their staff, students and communities create healthier lifestyles together.
Objectives:
1.Participants will be able to identify needs for a healthier school communities.
2.Participants will be able select methods from successful schools that help to create Wellness programs that incorporate strategies that change school environments.
3.Participants will be able analyze the progress of schools that have incorporated the “Health Schools Program”.
4.Participants will be able to develop “action plans” that can help sites become “Healthier Schools”.
5.Participants will have the resources to create community and district partnerships that enhance site wellness councils.
6.Participants will understand their impact on student academic success and school connectedness
7.Participants will understand how to enforce site and district Wellness policies without being the “food police” on their campus.
Goals:
1.To motivate all school staff to “Jump on board” and support school site change.
2.To encourage all Physical Educators and Health Educators to be the leaders on their school site Wellness councils.
3.To help Physical Educators and Health Educators to realize their potential to elevate their role as Wellness leaders in their school communities.
4.To share with Physical Educators and Health Educators how they can be the leaders to make schools more physically active schools, outside the walls of Physical Education.
5.To give leaders the resources and guidance needed to help meet updated federal requirements for breakfast and lunch programs.
6.To empower Physical Educators and Health Educators to be the leaders on their campus to create a healthier school culture.
7.To support Physical Educators and Health Educators as they create “Action Plans” to enhance their school site “Wellness programs”.
8.To provide resources to create Employee Wellness programs that turn staff into role models for our kids.
9.To enable sites to utilize their site “student organizations” and “parent organizations” and empower them to make school site changes in school health.
10.To share with Physical Educators and Health Educators how they can utilize the Alliance for a Healthier Generations “Healthier Schools Program” guidelines to effectively change school policies and create a framework that sets specific actions plans to make a healthier school environment.
11.To help utilize “Healthy School” programs to affectively change school policies and create framework that specifies action plans to make healthier schools.
Expected learning outcomes:
1.To have the skills necessary to create opportunities of collaboration with site, district, an communities around school wellness.
2.To have the capabilities to develop a quality and comprehensive school wellness council.
3.To possess the skills necessary to lead school sites to create a healthier community.
4.Identify and describe components of a Healthier school environment.
5.To motivate Physical Educators and Health Educators to lead their sites in creating a strong health and wellness program that changes the school environment to support academic achievement and personal well-being.
Friday 12:15 - 1:15 pm
Cypress
YOU, as a physical educator, can be the catalyst for change. YOU should play a key role in developing a culture in which physical activity and physical education are foundational to academic success. In this session participants will leave with strategies to develop a successful wellness program. YOU can empower your sites to create a healthier school environment.
Main Points:
1.How do you influence your school to create a culture that is healthy and positively affects teaching and learning?
2.There are multitudes of leaders in any school. How do we integrate these influences into a more coherent and less contradictory message on health?
3.Healthier kids have higher attendance rates, higher test scores, and healthier behaviors in class.
4.Inspiring Physical Educators and Health Educators to become Champions for Wellness
5.Motivate Physical Educators and Health Educators to be a catalyst for change in their school site environment.
6.To demonstrate how Physical Educators can play a key role in empowering sites to achieve Wellness goals
7.Helping to motivate schools to create healthier active living communities
8.To share with Physical Educators and Health Educators how they can help their staff, students and communities create healthier lifestyles together.
Objectives:
1.Participants will be able to identify needs for a healthier school communities.
2.Participants will be able select methods from successful schools that help to create Wellness programs that incorporate strategies that change school environments.
3.Participants will be able analyze the progress of schools that have incorporated the “Health Schools Program”.
4.Participants will be able to develop “action plans” that can help sites become “Healthier Schools”.
5.Participants will have the resources to create community and district partnerships that enhance site wellness councils.
6.Participants will understand their impact on student academic success and school connectedness
7.Participants will understand how to enforce site and district Wellness policies without being the “food police” on their campus.
Goals:
1.To motivate all school staff to “Jump on board” and support school site change.
2.To encourage all Physical Educators and Health Educators to be the leaders on their school site Wellness councils.
3.To help Physical Educators and Health Educators to realize their potential to elevate their role as Wellness leaders in their school communities.
4.To share with Physical Educators and Health Educators how they can be the leaders to make schools more physically active schools, outside the walls of Physical Education.
5.To give leaders the resources and guidance needed to help meet updated federal requirements for breakfast and lunch programs.
6.To empower Physical Educators and Health Educators to be the leaders on their campus to create a healthier school culture.
7.To support Physical Educators and Health Educators as they create “Action Plans” to enhance their school site “Wellness programs”.
8.To provide resources to create Employee Wellness programs that turn staff into role models for our kids.
9.To enable sites to utilize their site “student organizations” and “parent organizations” and empower them to make school site changes in school health.
10.To share with Physical Educators and Health Educators how they can utilize the Alliance for a Healthier Generations “Healthier Schools Program” guidelines to effectively change school policies and create a framework that sets specific actions plans to make a healthier school environment.
11.To help utilize “Healthy School” programs to affectively change school policies and create framework that specifies action plans to make healthier schools.
Expected learning outcomes:
1.To have the skills necessary to create opportunities of collaboration with site, district, an communities around school wellness.
2.To have the capabilities to develop a quality and comprehensive school wellness council.
3.To possess the skills necessary to lead school sites to create a healthier community.
4.Identify and describe components of a Healthier school environment.
5.To motivate Physical Educators and Health Educators to lead their sites in creating a strong health and wellness program that changes the school environment to support academic achievement and personal well-being.
Friday 12:15 - 1:15 pm
Cypress