K-12 Obesity Prevention Partnerships District teams meeting

School Health & Wellness Institute

October 30, 2017

Lauren Kelsey School Partnership Coordinator

Alaska Obesity Prevention & Control Program

Overview of the Morning

Reconnecting/ icebreaker

“The business meeting” Envisioning your

healthy school School Employee

Wellness

This afternoon • Targeted Outreach &

Communication Workshop

• Hot topics/trouble shooting

• Marketing Regulations • Wrap Up

– Review SHWI agenda – Bike rack/next steps

Overview of the Morning

Reconnecting/ icebreaker

“The business meeting” Envisioning your

healthy school School Employee

Wellness

It’s Business Time

“The business meeting” Contract review of

deliverables Highlights of this years

priorities Focus on sustainability

Key K-12 grantee activities 1- Support a School Wellness Team to assess current

federally mandated school wellness policy development, adoption, implementation, and enforcement.

2- Improve the school nutrition and physical activity environment.

3- Monitor student health risk behaviors, height & weight status & district physical activity and nutrition environment.

4- Promote events, activities, and school success stories using local media.

5- Participate as a member of the state taskforce Alaska Alliance for Healthy Kids.

6- Meet grant administrative, personnel, and fiduciary requirements.

1. Support a School Wellness Team to assess wellness policy development, adoption, implementation & enforcement (1 of 2) • HOORAY that everyone has passed/ updated their wellness policy!!!

– Seriously, HOORAY

• Maintain/strengthen the District Wellness Team to put policy into action

• Maintain records/reports to comply with the requirements of the HHFK Act of 2010.

Spiraling Back Systems Change Game

Systems Change is a multi-year process… → Awareness → → Preparation →→→Practice →→→→ Mastery/Integration →→→→→ Renewal

1. Support a School Wellness Team to assess Wellness policy development, adoption, implementation & enforcement (2 of 2)

• Complete School Health Index and WellSAT to demonstrate progress since year 1. – No need if already completed last year/after the your

wellness policy update – School Health Index can be used as required

assessment for ESSA Title IV funds – Sustainability tip: complete the School Health Index as

a part of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation Healthy Schools Program

2. Improve the school nutrition and physical activity environment • Work toward achieving at least the Bronze Award Level of the HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC).

– Complete the Smarter Lunchrooms Checklist for 1+ site – Submit an application for 1 site

• Participate in the Healthy Futures Challenge for elementary school students. – increase # of schools, # of students, or # of logs turned in – Good feedback loop for SB 200 minutes for elementary

2. Improve the school nutrition and physical activity environment

• Implement additional evidence-based strategies as locally appropriate (optional) – Sustainability: keep thinking of the pyramid – Increase sites/options for food service—go

breakfast! – Farm to School, Safe Routes to School

3. Monitor student health risk behaviors, height & weight status, and district physical

activity and nutrition environment • Maintain/work to institutionalize a

system to collect student height and weight measurements

• Support School Health Profiles in Spring 2018 – Encourage (bird dog?) principals and lead

health teachers

• Communicate/use results from Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) – Interested in a local report? Contact Lauren and Ellie

4. Promote events, activities, and school success stories using local media

• Increase public awareness about risks of childhood obesity, program activities and successes, how the community can support you

• Submit at least 2 stories for Play Every Day blog • Alphabet soup: PSA for PED on PSE • Sustainability tip: Sign up for the Play Every Day weekly

blog; AK Obesity listserv, and national sources like Alliance for Healthier Generation

5. Participate as a member of the state taskforce Alaska Alliance for Healthy Kids

www.akhealthykids.org

• Health & PE Workgroup

3-4 pm every 4th Thursday

*next two are on 3rd Thurs due to holidays

Next call is rescheduled to Thurs. Nov 16

6. Meet grant administrative, personnel, and fiduciary requirements.

Maintain the following: • Staffing 0.5 FTE coordinator • Professional development • Budget management • Quarterly reporting • Ongoing communication with SOA staff

Budget & Quarterly Reporting • Key Dates (plus or minus)

– October 30—Quarter 1 reports/invoices for activities & expenditures July1-Sept 30

– January 30—Q2 reports/invoices (will include the midyear survey monkey)

– April 30—Q3 reports/invoices—spend plan if underspent

– July 30—Q4 year end reports including WellSAT/wellness policy assessment

Professional Development Upcoming local PD opportunities of interest • 2017 Alaska Afterschool Conference November 16-14, Westmark Hotel, Fairbanks • PLAAY Summit (Positive Leadership for Active

Alaska Youth) February 23-24, 2018, ANTHC, Anchorage • Alaska School Nutrition Conference February 12-15, 2018, Anchorage • Other Potentials: PE/PA and/or Systems

Thinking/Systems Changing Game trainings at ASD Summer Academy, Alaska School Leadership Institute?

Thoughts on Sustainability: planning for future years

Practice Saying NO Practice Asking for YES Practice NOT being the leaders

Co-leading… Not always most efficient, but worth it.

Planning for the future Activities focusing on sustainability • Ongoing policy communication: develop/share

orientation materials for new staff on policy (classroom rewards, celebrations, PA breaks), new volunteers (Smart Snacks, fundraisers)

• Strive for participation in full range of federal school meal programs

• Explore additional funding—join ESSA planning teams for Title IV funds, join AKObesity/AK Adolescent Health listserv, write sample grants

• Continued participation in YRBS, Student weight status reports will make you more competitive for future funding announcements

Questions?

Don’t forget the Bike Rack

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RECESS!! Let’s take a break

Go Noodle—Moose Tube Peanut Butter in a Cup

2:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPCGfa44bF0

Create your Healthy School • Make your own or join up with another

from your district team • Include at least one image or physical

object • No other guidelines (yet)

Spheres of Influence

"Connecting Learning and Health in Schools: Findings from a Message Research Study “ RWJF/Edge Research/GMMB, Webinar 9/20/17

Create your Healthy School Share 1-2 items with a partner at your table

Create your Healthy School • Mark something that did not exist

before your district started the OPCP school partnerships

• Mark something else that still doesn’t exist, but you have hopes for…

Create your Healthy School Pick a new partner to share your vision

Create your Healthy School Group Share-- “A-ha’s” from your vision (or

from another's)

Create your Healthy School Hands up if you addressed these themes

– Physical/built environment – Nutrition/PA – Health education – Wellness team/teamwork or partnerships – Policies that support health – Staff support

• Employee wellness • Professional development • Supportive district leadership/community

Create your Healthy School Hands up if you addressed these themes

– Safety – Social/emotional learning or mind/body

connection – Discipline – Family/student/community engagement – Fairness/equity – Academics/student achievement

This afternoon • Targeted Outreach &

Communication Workshop

• Hot topics/trouble shooting

• Marketing Regulations • Wrap Up

– Review SHWI agenda – Bike rack/next steps

Marketing in Schools:

□ “Athlete of the Year” branded

bottles

□ “Can’t sell? Can’t market”

EEK

“In the game, the fastest man alive, sprinter Usain Bolt, picks up gold coins as he races across the screen. He runs faster and gains fuel if he hits a (SPORTS DRINK) icon, but he slows down and loses fuel if he hits a water droplet.”

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/health/gatorade-settlement-bolt-california/index.html

Copycat Products • Meet Smart Snacks, but… • Harm reduction? Unfortunate loophole

We can do this!

We need to create an Alaska where every child lives, learns and plays in an environment filled with healthy choices. We can do this if we work together.

Additional Questions?

Don’t forget the Bike Rack

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Post Card to Myself

1. Grab a post card 2. Write down 3 things

you’re inspired to do when you return to work

3. Fill out to your work address

4. Drop it in the box at the end of the session

5. We’ll mail it to you in 2 months when you’re not swamped from being out of the office at a training

Healthy School Vision to Myself

1. Make sure your nameis on your vision

2. Write down 3 thingsyou’re inspired to dowhen you return towork

3. We’ll mail it to you in 2months when you’renot swamped frombeing out of the officeat a training

Go Noodle—Koo Koo Kangaroo

3:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxtwzroMTQ

Pop-See-Ko: KooKoo Kangaroo

• Hey Lauren! • Hey What?

• Are you ready? • For what?

• To Pop! • Pop What?

• Pop-See Ko!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxtwzroMTQ

Pop-See-Ko: KooKoo Kangaroo • My hands are high, my feet are low, and

THIS is how I Pop-See Ko • Her hands are high, her feet are low, and THIS is how she Pop-See Ko’s…

(everybody—make the motion) Pop-See Ko…Pop Pop See Ko Pop-See Ko…Pop Pop See Ko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxtwzroMTQ

Alaska’s Physical Activity in School Law • Directs Alaska schools to establish guidelines to

provide opportunities for students K-8 to achieve a minimum of 90% of the recommended 60 minutes a day of physical activity during each full school day.

• This equates to at least 54 minutes and may include physical education classes or classroom-based physical activity as well as opportunities for unstructured physical activity, such as recess.

• SB200 is in effect as of October 16, 2016 Source: AS14.30.360, amended April 2016 by SB200 ‘Mandatory Physical Activity in Schools’

USDA Final Rule

• We have a deadline!

• It’s soon, but it’s do-able!

• Schools must be in compliance with all USDA local wellness policy regulations by June 30, 2017

• Lots of new resources

http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/guide-smart-snacks-schools

Share the message: physical activity time supports academic achievement

20 students taking the same test

After 20 minutes of

Sitting Quietly 3 8 µV After a 20 minutes of

Walking Source: Hillman, Pontifex, Raine, Castelli, Hall, & Kramer, A. F. (2009). The Effect of acute treadmill walking on cognitive control and academic achievement in preadolescent children. Neuroscience, 159, 1044-1054.