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PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES FOR ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATORS
Whether you are a teacher, student, parent, administrator, community member or school food service personnel, this page from the CDC’s Healthy Youth! website will provide you with a quick Summary of Adolescent and School Health Tools. The publications reviewed discuss food safety, adolescent health, school nutrition, local wellness policies, physical activity and education, healthy eating, tobacco use prevention, asthma, injury and violence prevention.
Success Stories: Selected Summaries from Making It Happen reviews five of the schools in the publication and explains what approaches were used to bring healthy changes to their school districts. This web page provides a great snapshot of some wonderful ideas and easily adopted practices to make any school a healthier environment.
Making It Happen, Six Approaches to Improving Student Nutrition. This website provides a compilation of suggested methods to improve the school nutrition environment.
California Department of Education Student Health, Supportive Schools, and Academic Success is a selection from the California Department of Education, Getting Results: Developing Safe and Healthy Kids, Update 5 (2005). This report reviews original research from WestEd on the link between health and academic success, and offers suggestions on putting research into action in schools.
The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action (2007). The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) calls on parents, educators, policymakers, and communities to join forces to ensure our children become productive, engaged citizens. ASCD's Commission on the Whole Child advances five major recommendations for ensuring that all children are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
Learning compact Full Report (pdf)
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance (2004) is a summary of the committee’s findings and recommendations prepared in response to a request from Congress for a prevention oriented action plan to tackle the alarming rise in childhood obesity. The IOM committee has developed a comprehensive national strategy that recommends specific actions for families, schools, industry, communities, and government. The report's action plan lays out explicit goals and recommendations for preventing obesity and promoting healthy weight in children and youth in various segments of society. It also explores the actions needed to initiate, support, and sustain the societal and lifestyle changes that can reverse the trend among our children and youth.
The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity (2004) is an issue brief that reviews more than 40 studies on the role of media in the nation’s dramatically increasing rates of childhood obesity and explores what researchers do and do not know about the role media plays in childhood obesity. It also outlines media-related policy options that have been proposed to help address childhood obesity and identifies ways media could play a positive role in helping to address this important public health problem.
School Employee Wellness: A Guide for Protecting the Assets of Our Nation’s Schools (2006) is a comprehensive guide that provides information, practical tools and resources for school employee wellness programs. It will help schools, school districts, and states develop and support the implementation of school employee wellness programs that promote employee health, improve workforce productivity, and reduce the costs of employee absenteeism and healthcare. |
