NEW Health, Physical Education and Nutrition Standards

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NEW Health, Physical Education and Nutrition
Standards

• Christine Philley, CFCS
• School Health Administrator
• Dale Dieckman, ATC, CSCS
• Physical Education Specialist
• Office of Healthy Schools
• Mississippi Department of Education

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An Alarming Trend

• We are in danger of raising the first generation
  of American children who will live sicker and die
  younger than their parents generation.
• Childhood obesity is one of the most urgent and
  serious health threats confronting our nation.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - 2007

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Why?

• If schools do not deal
• with childrens health
• by design, they deal
• with it by default.
• Health is Academic, 1997

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Every day in Mississippi, we have an opportunity
to reach

• 493, 302 public school students
• 152 School Districts
• 618 Elementary Schools/225 Secondary Schools
• Over 68,000 adults work as teachers, school
  building staff, or school district staff

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Why Coordinated School Health?

• It is difficult for students to be successful in
  school if they are

• Depressed
• Tired
• Being bullied
• Stressed
• Sick
• Using alcohol or other drugs
• Hungry
• Abused

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Why Coordinated School Health?Six behaviors
account for most of the serious illness and
premature deaths in the U.S.

• Tobacco Use
• Abuse of alcohol and other drug use
• Unintentional injuries and violence
• Sexual Behaviors resulting in HIV, sexually
  transmitted diseases or teenage pregnancy
• Poor eating habits
• Inadequate physical activity

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Coordinated School Health Program
Physical Education
Health Education
Family and Community Involvement
Health Services
Health Promotion for Staff
Nutrition Services
Healthy School Environment
Counseling, Psychological Services
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MASLOWS HEIRARCHY AND COORDINATED SCHOOL HEALTH
Health Education
Motivated and Learning
Physical Education
Health Services
Nutrition Services
Sense of Positive Self-Esteem
Counseling, Psychological and Social Services
Sense of Belonging and Importance Sense of Being
Loved and Appreciated
Healthy School Environment
Health Promotion for Staff
Family/Community Involvement
Free of Fear and In A Safe place
Physical Health
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Why Coordinated School Health?The alternative is
costly

• Hidden Costs to Schools
• Measurable Costs to State
• Measurable Costs to Schools

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The Hidden Costs

• Extra staff time needed for students with low
  academic performance or behavior problems caused
  by poor nutrition and physical inactivity.
• Costs associated with time and staff needed to
  administer medications needed by students with
  associated health problems.
• Healthcare costs, absenteeism, and lower
  productivity due to the effects of poor
  nutrition, inactivity and overweight among school
  employees.

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Measurable Costs to our state Absenteeism means
(2007-2008 figures)
Reduced

• Statewide Enrollment 493,302
• ADA Statewide 470,679
• Statewide Attendance 95
• 4,574 per student based on fully funded MAEP
  (2007-2008)
• Statewide schools leaving 102,562,802 on table
  (not taking into consideration local
  contribution)

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Measurable costs to our schoolsReduced
Absenteeism means

• School District 3,000 Students
• Each 1 attendance improvement
• 137,220

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• School Health
• Policy
• Development

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2007 School Health Policy Development

• Healthy Students Act (House Bill 732/Senate Bill
  2369 - Section 37-13-134)
• Mandates 150 minutes per week of physical
  activity based instruction K-8
• Mandates 45 minutes per week of health education,
  K-8
• Requires ½ Carnegie Unit of physical education
  for graduation, 9-12
• Appropriates funds for a physical education
  coordinator to be housed at MDE

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2007 School Health Policy Development

• Healthy Students Act (House Bill 732/Senate Bill
  2369 - Section 37-13-134)
• Requires the State Board of Education to
  establish regulations for child nutrition school
  breakfast and lunch programs to include how food
  items are prepared, time allotted for the
  consumption of breakfast and lunch, extra food
  sales, marketing and retail fast foods.
• Defines the duties of the School Health Councils
  to include a coordinated approach to school health

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• Health Education
• Guidelines

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For Grades K - 8

• 45 Minutes of Health Education per week
• Can be achieved in many different ways
• Taught by certified Health Teacher
• Integrated into on-going academic classes
• Taught by resource speakers (doctors, nurses, law
  enforcement officials, counselors, health unit
  professionals, etc)

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For Grades 9-12

• 1/2 Carnegie Unit of Instruction in Comprehensive
  Health Education required for graduation
• This is already an existing requirement

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• Physical Education Rules Regulations

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150 Minutes of Physical Education/Activity Based
Instruction for Grades K-8

• Can be achieved in many different ways
• A total of 50 minutes per week must be in
  physical Education
• Activity-based instruction in the regular
  classroom
• Supervised recess activity
• Extracurricular activities (7-8) that are
  sanctioned by the Mississippi High School
  Activities Association

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Grades 9-12

• 1/2 Carnegie Unit of Physical Education required
  for High School graduation beginning in the
  2008-2009 school year
• This is a new requirement

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HEALTH IN ACTION IS

• A collection of web-based lesson plans written by
  highly qualified educators from across the state
• Lesson plans that are linked to web-based
  resources, classroom materials and videos
• For all classroom teachers
• Lesson plans that can be implemented in
  classrooms, gyms or on the playground

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HEALTH IN ACTION IS (continued)

• Lesson plans that link school health education
  and physical education with core academic
  subjects
• Lesson plans that are based on State and National
  Standards for Health and Physical Education
• Age appropriate lesson plans that are based on
  competencies prescribed by state Health and
  Physical Education frameworks

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WHY HEALTH IN ACTION?

• To assist teachers, schools and school districts
  in implementing the requirements of the MS
  Healthy Students Act.
• To provide resources to support the
  implementation of quality health education and
  physical education/activity based instruction in
  classrooms across the state.

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Committed to Move Quality PE Program

• One grant per district
• District must have certified PE Instructor
• District must match grant for equipment 11
• Project components
• Physical Best Training and Materials
• Fitnessgram Software
• Incentive payments to schools for data submission
• Required Training Participants
• School Principal
• Certified PE Instructor

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Committed to Move
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• Nutrition Standards Development Process

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Research Based Decisions

• Relationship between nutrition and health and
  nutrition and learning
• Students need adequate time to eat
• Recess before lunch may provide benefits to
  students
• Family education is the key to building a healthy
  future for all Mississippians
• Aggressive marketing is a must

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The Nutrition Standards address

• Healthy food and beverage choices
• Healthy food preparations
• Marketing healthy food choices
• Food preparation ingredients and products
• Allotment of time for lunch and breakfast periods
• Availability of food items
• Methods to increase participation in programs

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Programs Already In Place

• 5 Star Food Grants
• Nutrition Integrity Grants
• Star Food Marketing Program
• News Releases designed to promote the quality of
  food service in schools
• Development of a 12 minute video to highlight
  food safety issues for foods being brought to
  school

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Nutrition Integrity Grant

• Strategy Replace frying with combi-oven in 20
  school sites with large number of weekly servings
  of fried foods
• Goal Decrease fat and calorie consumption in
  food served in schools
• How
• Equipment Combi-Oven
• Require 1/3 school match for equipment
• Training at school site

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5 Star Food Grant

• Strategy Improve preparation and presentation
  of fruits and vegetables in school meals in 100
  schools
• Goal Increase fruit and vegetable consumption
• How
• Equipment sectionizer and slicer
• Training with chef and at school site with MSU
  agents
• Pre and Post Consumption pattern assessments
• Benchmark payments

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5 Star Food Grant
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Summary

• School Nutrition Programs must play a central
  role in modeling good nutrition.
• These standards go beyond the USDA Standards
• Healthy eating patterns are important for
  children to promote cognitive development,
  prevent health problems and reduce
  under-nutrition.

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Coordinated School Health Programs An
Investment In Our Future

• Schools could do more than perhaps any other
  single institution in society to help young
  people, and the adults they will become, to live
  healthier, longer, more satisfying, and more
  productive lives.
• Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development

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Coordinated School Health

• Make it a reality in your school!!

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