You know that healthy kids learn better. And you want to make sure that you give students in your district a chance to eat healthy foods and stay active so they can focus in the classroom, achieve academically, and reach their full potential. But what strategies can you, as a local education leader, utilize to ensure a school environment that fosters healthy eating and physical activity? On December 1, at 2:00pm EST, join national experts and local policymakers for an in-depth discussion of cost-effective, collaborative strategies that state and local policymakers, including school boards and administrators, can use to address childhood obesity.
The two-hour webcast, Leadership in Action: Policymakers Addressing Childhood Obesity through Collaboration and Policy Change, is hosted by NSBA and will highlight the Leadership for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit, a resource for state and local policymakers to collaborate in creating healthier schools and communities through policy change. The webcast will focus on two strategies from the Toolkit that help local school leaders collaborate with other policymakers: “Safe Routes to School programs” and “joint-use agreements.”
BoardBuzz thinks both of these strategies not only keep students healthy but are also real boons to a district’s budget if the district knows how to effectively collaborate and partner with their local municipal leaders and other community stakeholders to share resources in implementation. And with childhood obesity rates rising, poor student health contributing to lower academic achievement, and tough economic times continuing, what district wouldn’t want to learn how to leverage effective partnerships to address all of these issues?
The webcast, which is supported by Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and produced in partnership with the Education Solutions Global Network, an activity of the Missouri School Boards Association, will provide the information, tools, and resources you need to create healthier environments for students in your schools and community.
The event begins at 2:00pm EST (1:00pm CST, 12:00pm MST, 11:00am PST). It is free, but registration is requiredplease register here.
What cost-effective and collaborative strategies has your district used to address childhood obesity or other health issues? Buzz at us!
As a first grade teacher, I have seen an increase of obese children in my classroom over the years. At the same time I see some schools cutting out or limiting recess time for kids to make more time for academics. The majority of my students live in apartments and don’t have safe yards or areas to play outside of school time. We must give our students time to run and play if we expect them to be able to focus when it is time to learn. We must also give them the time to exercise in order to help combat the increase in childhood obesity.