Healthy Children Ready to Learn: A White Paper on Health, Nutrition, and Physical Education
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell recently delivered his second annual State of Education Address, which outlined a new initiative that emphasizes health education, physical education, nutrition, and a healthier school environment. This document describes the California Department of Education's perspectives and plans to ensure that students are healthy and ready to learn.
Linking Education, Activity and Food (LEAF) Evaluation Report
Executive Summary of evaluation findings from the LEAF program, along with executive summaries from each of six evaluation reports. The reports cover the findings from the pilot implementation of SB 19's nutrition standards for food and beverages sold and served in 16 middle and high schools.
Nutrition Competencies for California's Children, Pre-Kindergarten - Grade 12 (Updated Feb-2008)
These competencies define what students need to know and be able to do at each grade level to make healthy food and other lifestyle choices toward wellbeing and success in school and in life. Curriculum leaders and teachers can use this tool to determine the priority nutrition concepts and skills to emphasize in their classrooms and a scope and sequence for nutrition-related health education curricula. This document supplements the California State Board of Education-adopted Health Framework for California Public Schools with nutrition-specific competencies.
Nutrition to Grow On
A garden-enhanced nutrition education curriculum for upper elementary school children.
School Nutrition…by Design! (PDF; 647KB; 45pp.)
A tool that provides the design principles behind developing a healthy school nutrition environment. It provides quality indicators within each design principle that, taken together, reflect the “ideal” for a school nutrition environment. It also provides recommended strategies the school community can implement to create a nutrition environment that supports the development of healthy lifestyles during and after school. Finally, it provides a set of resources and examples that change managers within the school community can use while “designing” their own implementation strategies.
Assessment and Planning Tool (DOC; 188KB; 23pp.)
This
assessment and planning tool, to be used in conjunction with School Nutrition...by Design!, will help you determine the status of your school nutrition environment and establish a starting point for implementing strategies that will move your students toward better health.
Strategies for Success II - 2001 (PDF; 403KB; 73pp.)
Enhancing academic performance and health through nutrition education.
Taking Action for Healthy School Environments: Linking Education, Activity, and Food in California Secondary Schools (PDF; Outside Source)
This CDE publication illustrates promising practices in nutrition and physical activity policy development and implementation that have been field-tested and found successful in over 18 California middle and high schools. It also provides recommendations for leaders at every level—school, district, community, and state—to take action toward ensuring school environments that support health for students of all ages.
