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Healthy Concessions Guide

Concession stands often carry very few healthy options. This 7-page PDF offers ideas on healthy foods for school concession stands. It offers suggestions based on "Go", "Slow", and "Whoa" guidelines. It provides healthy serving size guides and substitution ideas for "whoa" foods.

Available at: https://www.nemours.org/content/dam/nemours/wwwv2/filebox/service/healthy-living/growuphealthy/healthyconcession.pdf

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2. Foods at School and School Sponsored Events
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Healthy Fundraisers

Action for Healthy Kids offers 2 PDFs that include ideas for non-food, healthy food, and physical activity-promoting school, club, or team fundraisers.

Available at: http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/storage/documents/parent-toolkit/fundraisers-food-sales-f1.pdf

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http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/storage/documents/parent-toolkit/fundraisers-family-health-f1.pdf 

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Aces & Bike to School Day

ACES Day is an international celebration emphasizing physical activity among students and helps combat child obesity. Michigan schools participate in a variety of ways, including walking parades around the school, dance aerobics classes to music and field days consisting of outdoor events.

Stemming from the success of Walk to School Day, Bike to School Day is held annually on the Wednesday of the first full week in May, which coincides with National Bike Month. In Michigan, schools can register to get materials to help with planning, stickers for the students, bicycle safety instruction booklets, technical assistance, and a certificate of participation signed by the governor to display at the school.

The Michigan Fitness Foundation coordinates both events on the same day with help from Safe Routes to School, the Michigan Department of Transportation and Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan.

Available at: http://www.michiganfitness.org/aces

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Fuel Up to Play 60 Resources

Building awareness about nutrition and physical activity through the Fuel Up to Play 60 program will help you get students and other adults excited about the ways this program can help your school’s nutrition and physical activity environment and increase student achievement. Use these tools and resources to announce your participation, garner support from staff, school board, parents and others, and highlight progress as you and your students increase everyone’s opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity.

Find promotional resources under the 'Program Tools' tab on the far right.

Available at: https://school.fueluptoplay60.com/tools/promotion-tools.php

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School Gardens

Gardening at school can be a great way to get kids to eat healthier, be physically active, and learn about how plants grow. University of Georgia Extension has a webpage with resources for school gardens. The list of resources includes how to get started, tending your garden, theme gardens (pizza, alphabet, and more!), grant opportunities, and even gardening curriculums by grade!

Available at: http://extension.uga.edu/k12/school-gardens/

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Walk to School Day

International Walk to School Day highlights the joy that comes from walking to and from school, and the need to ensure that they have safe routes to do so. Held annually on the Wednesday of the first full week in October, Walk to School Day is often a kick-off for a larger Safe Routes to School Program. In Michigan, schools can register to get materials to help with planning, stickers for the students, technical assistance, and a certificate of participation signed by the governor to display at the school.

Available at: www.saferoutesmichigan.org/w2sd

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Healthy Fundraisers

Action for Healthy Kids offers 2 PDFs that include ideas for non-food, healthy food, and physical activity-promoting school, club, or team fundraisers.

Available at: http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/storage/documents/parent-toolkit/fundraisers-food-sales-f1.pdf

and

http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/storage/documents/parent-toolkit/fundraisers-family-health-f1.pdf

 

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3. Eliminating Marketing of Unhealthy Foods

Social Media Sites

There are several social media sites where you can promote all the great things you are doing to promote wellness at your school. Discuss social media, who will be responsible for the content and posting, and where it fits with your local wellness policy at a school wellness team meeting. Learn more here:

• Facebook: www.facebook.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com
• Pinterest: www.pinterest.com
• Twitter: www.twitter.com
• Youtube: www.youtube.com

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Aces & Bike to School Day

ACES Day is an international celebration emphasizing physical activity among students and helps combat child obesity. Michigan schools participate in a variety of ways, including walking parades around the school, dance aerobics classes to music and field days consisting of outdoor events.

Stemming from the success of Walk to School Day, Bike to School Day is held annually on the Wednesday of the first full week in May, which coincides with National Bike Month. In Michigan, schools can register to get materials to help with planning, stickers for the students, bicycle safety instruction booklets, technical assistance, and a certificate of participation signed by the governor to display at the school.

The Michigan Fitness Foundation coordinates both events on the same day with help from Safe Routes to School, the Michigan Department of Transportation and Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan.

Available at: http://www.michiganfitness.org/aces 

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2. Physical Activity and Physical Education
3. Other opportunities to be physically active

School Gardens

Gardening at school can be a great way to get kids to eat healthier, be physically active, and learn about how plants grow. University of Georgia Extension has a webpage with resources for school gardens. The list of resources includes how to get started, tending your garden, theme gardens (pizza, alphabet, and more!), grant opportunities, and even gardening curriculums by grade!

Available at: http://extension.uga.edu/k12/school-gardens/ 

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Launch Your Day with Breakfast Stickers

Colorful 2” stickers to use as part of your school breakfast promotion events. Available to Team Nutrition Schools.

 

Available at: http://www.fns.usda.gov/launch-your-day-breakfast-stickers

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Summer Meals Webinar

Summer Meals Program experts, partners, and special speakers provide resources, technical guidance examples, and best practices to make Summer Meals Programs a success.

 

Available at: http://www.fns.usda.gov/sfsp/2015-summer-meals-webinars

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Chef Designed School Breakfast

A resource designed to:  promote the importance of breakfast,  provide information on alternate breakfast serving style options, offer recipes that appeal to students’ tastes and meet the National School Breakfast (SBP) Meal Pattern (implemented July 1, 2013) and, encourage cost control requirements by utilizing USDA Foods (USDA Commodities)

 

Available at: https://sde.idaho.gov/cnp/shared/Chef-Designed-Breakfast-Book.pdf
 

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Discover School Breakfast Toolkit

 For those who have an interest in increasing access to the School Breakfast Program, determining the type of meal service most suited to their needs, and developing a marketing plan that will capture and keep their customers.

 

Available at: http://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/discover-school-breakfast-toolkit

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Start School with Breakfast: A Guide to Increasing School Beakfast Participation

A guide that seeks to promote alternative breakfast service models—breakfast in the classroom, grab n’ go and 2nd chance breakfast, among others—to educators, school professionals and those associated with the school community. 

 

Available at: http://neahealthyfutures.org/wpcproduct/start-school-with-breakfast-a-guide-to-increasing-school-breakfast-participation/

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Tools for Schools: Serving Whole Grain-Rich

A collection of policy guidance, resources and recipes to help foodservice directors serve whole grain-rich foods.

 

Available at: http://www.fns.usda.gov/healthierschoolday/tools-schools-serving-whole-grain-rich

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Fact Sheets for Healthier School Meals

A collection of fact sheets developed by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service to help schools implement the major recommendations from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the nutrition foundation for all school meals programs.

 

 

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Chef Designed School Lunch

A resource to help schools use a variety of USDA Commodities, meet the USDA Meal Pattern (implemented July 1, 2012) for Grades K-8 and 9-12, provide a two-week cycle menu that utilizes four to nine different USDA Foods per meal to minimize school food costs, and appeal to students’ preferences and tastes while incorporating a wide variety of healthy foods.

 

Available at: https://sde.idaho.gov/cnp/shared/Chef-Designed-School-Lunch.pdf

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Comfortable Cafeterias

A PDF of a PowerPoint Webinar that explains how pleasant and positive mealtimes at school can set the stage for better learning, better behavior, and improved health.

 

Available at: https://www.educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/1213_np_sw_comfortablecafeteriawebinarslides.pdf

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Fruits and Vegetables Galore: Helping Kids Eat More

A tool for school foodservice professionals packed with tips on planning, purchasing, protecting, preparing, presenting and promoting fruits and vegetables.

 

Available at: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/fruits-vegetables-galore-helping-kids-eat-more

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Recipes for Healthy Kids: Cookbook for Schools

A large-quantity cookbook that features foods both children and adults should consume more of: dark green and orange vegetables, dry beans and peas, and whole grains. Print copies free to schools and child care centers.

 

Available at :http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/recipes-healthy-kids-cookbook-schools

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Health and Academic Achievement

A collection of quick facts, research articles, and tools from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to communicate the link between healthy eating, physical activity, and improved academic achievement.

 

Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/health_and_academics/index.htm

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2. Background and Requirements

Alliance for Healthier Generation-Wellness Policies

A comprehensive online how-to guide, with plenty of additional resources, that walks you through four steps to creating a school wellness policy: Convene your committee; Refresh your policy; Put policy into practice; and Evaluate and communicate.

 

Available at: https://www.healthiergeneration.org/take_action/schools/wellness_committees__policies/

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2. Create a Local Wellness Policy

Alliance for a Healthier Generation - Wellness Policies-Implementation

An online how-to guide for creating a school wellness policy. Work through this section when you are ready to implement your policy: Put Policy Into Practice.

 

Available at: https://www.healthiergeneration.org/take_action/schools/wellness_committees__policies/putting_policy_into_practice/

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2. Implement a Local Wellness Policy