Whole School Approach

Food $ense Approaches to improve student health and performance as part of a Policy, Systems, and Environmental

Approach to Wellness

•Empower students to make better food choices.

•Strive to improve academic performance through increased physical activity and better food choices.

•Increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and whole grains among students, staff and families.

•Build relationships with students, teachers, staff and parents to foster healthy eating habits.

•Support improvement plan and classroom curriculum with nutrition education.  

Whole School Goals

 

Nutrition in the…

Cafeteria

Increased consumption of plain over

chocolate milk

Classroom

Fiber Relay Race

Garden

Measuring plants

 

Nutrition and … Athletics

Healthy bag lunches for games away from Shelton &

Chocolate Milk following home games

Sponsored by Shelton Climbers Touchdown

Club

Nutrition Educators offered samples of pasta

salad, recipes, and educational displays at Community Pride Night

 

Nutrition and … Healthy Concessions

Food $ense can offer resources for Healthy Concessions to provide families with healthy options to choose from when eating at concession stands. A survey conducted last spring at SHS during a Weight Lifting meet showed that customers would prefer more healthy choices.

 

 

More strategies to use as part of the

Whole School Approach•Farm-to-School•Behavioral Economics/Smarter Lunchroom•School Wellness Policy

 

Farm to School/SNAP-Ed*F$ Bulletin Boards• F2S school wide taste tests info• F2S Harvest of the Month flyers

F$ Classroom/School Announcements• Link current F2S and F$ topics• F2S Harvest of the Month

messages

F$ materials use in F2S Activities• Fruit/Veggie skits in F2S garden

clubs

* Examples from Walla Walla

 

In Whatcom County, Food $ense partners with Whatcom Farm-2-School to promote the Harvest of the Month.

 

What is Smarter Lunchroom Design?

1. Environment affects our choices

2. Food decisions are automatic

3. Cornell University

4. Food psychology

 

Smarter Lunchroom Activities

Data1. Waste study2. Production records3. Taste tests4. School wide attitude

survey

Student work1. Chef for a day2. Photograph posters3. Videos4. PowerPoint

Focus groups1. Student

perceptions 2. Naming salads3. Chef for a day

 

Behavioral Economics

Key Concept: NudgeAn environmental cue or structure that influences people to behave in a certain way.*

*Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness. Neork; Knopf

 

……nudges can be implemented anywhere in the environment and anytime during the day or week.

Take every opportunity to nudge.

 

F$ Classrooms• Identify favorite foods of

teachers/staff• Display student art

emphasizing healthy foods

Cafeteria/Food Service Participation• Give healthy foods FUN names• Feature/create brand loyalty for

local foods• Put chocolate milk behind plain

milk

More Nudges*

*Examples from Walla Walla

School Wellness PolicyResources are in your packet. Interested community members who would like to sit on the wellness policy advisory committee include:• Sarah Fulkerson, Registered Dietician, MGH• Kim Goldsby, Girls Fastpitch Coach, SHS• Jeanne Rehwaldt, Food $ense Supervisor

Federal legislation stipulates that wellness policy address

the following areas:Goals for nutrition education, physical activity, and

other school-based activities

Nutrition guidelines

Guidelines for reimbursable school meals

A plan for measuring implementation of the policy

Stakeholder involvement (parents, students, representatives of the school food authority, the school board)

 

What’s Next?Mapping Our Way Forward•Which of these ideas might work for Shelton School District? •Schools can use different strategies

•What are your questions?

R. Jeanne RehwaldtFood $ense Nutrition

& Master Gardener Programs

360-427-9670 Ext. 688 rehwaldt@wsu.edu