Iowa Department of Education

Local School Wellness Policy, Support Materials and Resources.

This material provides additional resources that can be used to help schools develop Local School Wellness Policies. Links to the Iowa online assessment tool and the Iowa Association of School Boards School Wellness Policy materials are included.

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Students Taking Charge to Support Healthier Schools

This is a PowerPoint from an ICN workshop for students and staff to address the involvement of students to assist in implementing their Local School Wellness Policy. Students and staff were provided websites and a demonstration of resources that can be used with their peers or younger students to promote better nutrition and physical activity practices.

 Students Taking Charge to Support Healthier Schools (12.53 MB 2007-02-12 11:23:32)

 Action Plan (34.5 KB 2007-02-12 11:06:40)

 Student Questions for Florida Video (19.5 KB 2007-02-12 11:13:25)

 Nutrition Education Resources (27 KB 2007-02-12 11:08:45)

School Wellness ICN Workshop Resources

Bureau of Nutrition Programs and School Transportation in conjunction with IPTV and Iowa Partners:Action for Healthy Kids provided information on policy development. A panel of school administrators and staff presented information in the live broadcast in two of the ICN sessions.

Check for training to be rebroadcast by going to the workshop title, click on the link to the IPTV registration, scroll to the bottom of the description and if registration is available for a future date it will be indicated by a blue font "Register Here". The school can register its ICN room to receive the rebroadcast training through following the online registration process.

School Wellness I: Introduction

     http://www3.iptv.org/iowa_database/event-detail.cfm?ID=5621  

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School Wellness II: Policy Process

    http://www3.iptv.org/iowa_database/event-detail.cfm?ID=5619

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School Wellness III: Goals that Work  

    http://www3.iptv.org/iowa_database/event-detail.cfm?ID=6435 

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School Wellness IV: Implementation

This material provides additional resources that can be used to help schools develop Local School Wellness Policies. Links to the Iowa online assessment tool and the Iowa Association of School Boards School Wellness Policy materials are included.

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