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We provide guides for advocating for effective policy changes as well as practical tools for incorporating health and wellness into schools. Browse through our resources or select an audience to see curated resources.
Chicago Public Schools’ Pathways to Excellence in School Nutrition
This plan documents and make publicly accessible the district’s high school meal nutrition standards and health promoting initiatives and outline an action plan to provide healthy school food to all CPS students. This strategic plan was created in collaboration with the CPS School Food Advisory group co-convened by Healthy Schools Campaign.
Integrating Health and Wellness into a School Improvement Plan
This webinar provides tips for engaging in an authentic school improvement planning process that involves a variety of stakeholders and practical ways you can integrate student health and wellness in your school improvement plan. The webinar is geared toward a Chicago audience but has relevant information for all schools.
How to Integrate Health and Wellness Goals into a Continuous Improvement Work Plan
This toolkit lays out a simple framework to assist schools in incorporating health and wellness into their school improvement plans—and ensure all students have the opportunity to be the best learners they can be.
Fit to Learn Tip Sheet: Healthy Celebrations and Rewards
Celebrations and rewards are a big part of school culture. Help students make nutritious food choices all day long! Beyond regular meals, snacks are sometimes offered during in-class …
Fit to Learn Tip Sheet: Physical Activity
Physical activity during the school day helps students focus better in the classroom, increases social skills and encourages an active lifestyle. Activity in the classroom is also …
Fit to Learn Tip Sheet: Healthy Fundraising
Schools have many options for successfully raising money while keeping school wellness a priority—without relying on sales of unhealthy foods. Learn more about easy ways to hold healthy …
Fit to Learn Tip Sheet: Nutrition Education
Good nutrition can go far beyond the cafeteria—into the classroom! Nutrition education can be a separate curriculum or it can be woven into existing standards-based curricula. …
Addressing Nutrition and Physical Activity through ESSA Implementation
June 2017 This resource is a supplement to “State ESSA Plans to Support Student Health and Wellness: A Framework for Action” and provides more detailed ESSA implementation recommendations …
Addressing Chronic Absenteeism through the Every Student Succeeds Act
This webinar–hosted by Healthy Schools Campaign, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and Attendance Works–shares the opportunities ESSA presents for supporting schools and communities in addressing chronic absenteeism and to hear how states are working to integrate chronic absenteeism into its state ESSA plans.
Addressing Mental Health and Wellness through ESSA Implementation
This resource is a supplement to “State ESSA Plans to Support Student Health and Wellness: A Framework for Action” and provides more detailed ESSA implementation recommendations for supporting mental health and wellbeing.
Addressing Chronic Absenteeism through ESSA Implementation
This resource is a supplement to “State ESSA Plans to Support Student Health and Wellness: A Framework for Action” and provides more detailed ESSA implementation recommendations for supporting mental health and wellbeing.
State ESSA Plans to Support Student Health and Wellness: A Framework for Action
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) recognizes the vital role that health and wellness play in education. This document focuses on supporting advocates who are interested in working with state-level policymakers to develop state ESSA plans. It provides practical resources and emphasizes several key areas with the greatest potential impact on student health.