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Activity For Healthy Activity For Healthy Kids: Challenges & Kids: Challenges &
OpportunitiesOpportunities
Activity For Healthy Activity For Healthy Kids: Challenges & Kids: Challenges &
OpportunitiesOpportunitiesGrowing Healthy Kids in Kentucky WorkshopGrowing Healthy Kids in Kentucky Workshop
September 25 & October 22, 2002September 25 & October 22, 2002
Jim TackettJim Tackett
“A healthy school is one that integrates community, family, and schools to provide for students a positive continuum of intellectual, physical, social and emotional development on which to base lifelong decisions.”
NASBE Healthy Schools Network
Setting the Scene in the U.S.
• The percentage of overweight U.S. children has nearly doubled in the past 20 years.
• 69% of young adolescents reported regular participation in vigorous physical activity while only 38% of youth ages 18-21 engaged in like behavior.
• Daily enrollment in physical education classes dropped from 42% to 29% from 1991 to 1999.
Centers for Disease Control, 2002
Setting the Scene in Kentucky
• In the past week, 59% of high school students participated in vigorous physical activity for at least 20 minutes on at least three day of the past week.
• Nearly 25% of high school students participated in a physical education at least once per week.
• Approximately 30% of students spent 20 minutes or longer actually exercising in high school physical education class.
• On an average day, nearly 19% of high school students watched four or more hours of television.
2001 KY YRBS
“Exercise and recreation are as necessary as reading.”
Thomas Jefferson
Current Challenges to Physical Activity
• Shrinking budgets• Time constraints• Accountability importance• Equipment and facility demands• Teacher comfort• “Active” role models• “Old” stereotypes vs. “New” research• Personnel limitations
Every study shows that children are more attentive after recess –
as the kids would say, “Well, duh!”
Tony Pellegrini
Current Opportunities in Physical Activity
• Available funding• Current research• Curriculum standards• State support• Collaboration• Resources
Resources
Kentucky Dept. of Education Program of Studies, Core Content for Assessment, Academic Expectations
Centers for Disease Control School Health Index, Physical Activity Guidelines
National Association of State Boards of Education
Fit, Healthy & Ready to Learn
National School Board Association
School Health Resource Database
National Association for Sports and Physical Education
National Physical Education Standards
Web Resources• Kentucky Department of Education
www.kentuckyschools.org• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
www.cdc.gov• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation & Dancehttp://www.aahperd.org
• American School Health Associationhttp://www.ashaweb.org
• National School Boards Associationhttp://www.nsba.org
• National Association of State Boards of Educationwww.nasbe.org
Resources
• KDE Health & Physical Education consultantConnie Shackelford [email protected]
• Regional Cardiovascular Health CoordinatorsRenee White [email protected] Embry [email protected] Swetlick [email protected] Tackett [email protected]
“After all of the arguments have been made for one side or the other, it gets down to one thing: movement is about living and living is about learning.”
Eric Jensen