Project EAT ( Educate, Act, Thrive)

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Project EAT ( Educate, Act, Thrive)

• Started 10 years ago
• Reaches 1,000 teachers and 24,000 students
• Implemented in Grades K -12
• Supply materials, curriculum, professional
  development and technical assistance

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Developing Integrated Nutrition Education Lessons

• Ask teachers where they want to integrate.
• Modify existing curriculum to meet the needs of
  the school site and the Network.
• Pilot the Integrated Nutrition Education (INE)
  lessons.
• Modify lessons based on input.
• Send to the Network for approval.
• Offer it to appropriate sites and teachers

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Implementation Timeline for INE Before the
teacher meeting

• Collect calendars from the district and create a
  master calendar.
• Collect pacing guides if available or other
  instructional planning tool.
• Create invitations and send.
• Research Harvest of the Month options.

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Implementation Timeline for INE Content of the
meeting

• Create calendar.
• Share best practices by grade level.
• Request additional feedback problem solving.
• Complete paperwork for extra duty time (do
  everything you can while theyre together)

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Implementation Timeline for INE After the meeting

• Master calendar created.
• Master list of teachers created.
• Email list created for sending INE materials to
  teachers.