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Through Healthy Food and Fitness Policies Student Wellness: A Healthy Food and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide Produced by California School Boards Association and California Project LEAN (Leaders Encouraging Activity and Nutrition) 2006 Copies of the Guide are available for $20. To order, contact: California School Boards Association 3100 Beacon Blvd. West Sacramento, CA 95691 (800) 266-3382 Fax: (916) 371-3407 email: [email protected] www.csba.org © 2006, California School Boards Association and California Project LEAN. This material may not be reproduced or disseminated without prior written permission from the California School Boards Association. CSBA 2006 Executive Committee LUAN RIVERA President DR. KATHY KINLEY President-elect Paul chatMan Vice President DR. KERRY CLEGG Immediate Past President SCOTT P. PLOTKIN Executive Director CSBA Project Staff MARTIN GONZALEZ Assistant Executive Director, Governance and Policy Services DIANE GREENE Senior Consultant Judy cias Director, Policy Update Services and Assistant Legal Counsel California Project LEAN Project Staff PEGGY AGRON Program Chief VICTORIA BERENDS Marketing Manager CYNDI GUERRA-WALTER Consultant LUZ MARÍA RODRIGUEZ Marketing Specialist For a list of reviewers see Appendix A. STUDENT WELLNESS: A HEALTHY FOOD AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY POLICY RESOURCE GUIDE Table of Contents Preface........................................................................................................................................................4 I. INTRODUCTION Impact of Nutrition on Academic Achievement............................................................................................5 Impact of Physical Activity on Academic Achievement .................................................................................6 Impact on Physical, Social and Emotional Health ..........................................................................................6 Extent of the Problem .................................................................................................................................7 Implications for Schools ............................................................................................................................10 II. PROVIDING A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM ON NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY What Districts Can Do...............................................................................................................................17 What School Boards Can Do .....................................................................................................................19 III. POLICY DEVELOPMENT The Board’s Role in Policy ..........................................................................................................................21 Policy Development Process ......................................................................................................................22 Nutrition Policy Development Worksheet ..................................................................................................22 Physical Activity Policy Development Worksheet ........................................................................................33 IV. SAMPLE BOARD POLICIES BP 0200 Goals for the School District ...........................................................................................42 BP 3312 Contracts ....................................................................................................................... 44 BP/AR 3550 Food Service/Child Nutrition Program .............................................................................48 BP/AR 3553 Free and Reduced-Price Meals .........................................................................................52 BP/AR 3554 Other Food Sales ............................................................................................................56 BP 5030 Student Wellness ............................................................................................................60 BP/AR 6142.7 Physical Education ..........................................................................................................64 BP/AR 6142.8 Comprehensive Health Education ....................................................................................67 V. CASE STUDIES Capistrano Unified School District: Ban on Soft Drinks and Junk Food .......................................................71 Eastside Union High School District: Competitive Food Sales and Physical Activity Opportunities ...............73 Eureka City Unified School District: Nutritional Standards for All Foods Sold on Campus ............................75 Folsom Cordova Unified School District: Healthier School Meals ................................................................77 Los Angeles Unified School District: Ban on Soft Drink and Junk Food Sales, Improving Physical Education........ 79 Oakland Unified School District: Ban on Soft Drinks and Junk Food Sales ..................................................81 San Francisco Unified School District: Comprehensive Nutrition Policy .......................................................83 Vista Unified School District: Healthier Foods and Beverages in Vending Machines ....................................85 VI. RESOURCES 87 VII. APPENDIX Appendix A. Special Recognition ...............................................................................................................95 Appendix B. Glossary ................................................................................................................................97 Appendix C. Fact Sheets ...........................................................................................................................99 1. Nutrition, Physical Activity and Academic Achievement .....................................................................100 2. Nutrition and Youth Health Statistics ................................................................................................102 3. Physical Activity and Youth Health Statistics ......................................................................................104 4. In-School Marketing to Children and Youth ......................................................................................106 5. California High School Fast Food Survey............................................................................................108 6. Prevalence and Specifics of Districtwide Beverage Contracts in California’s Largest School Districts .......109 7. Food and Beverage Marketing on High School Campuses Survey ...................................................... 111 8. School Health Policies and Programs Study ....................................................................................... 112 9. Creative School Fundraising Ideas ..................................................................................................... 113 10. Constructive Classroom Rewards: Promoting Good Habits ................................................................ 114 11. Coordinated School Health Program ................................................................................................. 116 12. School Health Councils ..................................................................................................................... 117 13. The New Nutrition Standards: Implications for Student Wellness ...................................................... 118 14. School-Based Marketing of Food and Beverages: Implications for School Boards ..............................123 STUDENT WELLNESS: A HEALTHY FOOD AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY POLICY RESOURCE GUIDE Preface Camille Sauvé Petaluma City Elementary and High School District In 2000, the California School Boards Association entered Margot Tobias into a partnership with California Project LEAN (Leaders Acalanes Union High School District Encouraging Activity and Nutrition) to educate school board members on the critical link between nutrition, Margie Wakeham physical activity, health and academic achievement, and to Irvine Unified School District provide districts or school board members with tools and Special thanks are also extended to CSBA’s Policy sample policies to support a healthy school environment. Services staff for making sample board policies and The result was the 2003 publication of the “Healthy Food administrative regulations available for this Guide, Policy Resource Guide.” This “Student Wellness: A Healthy as well as to the California Department of Health Food and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide” is a Services, California Obesity Prevention Initiative for its revised and expanded version of the “Healthy Food Policy extensive review of the Guide. The Targeting Student Resource Guide.” It includes new information on local Learning Project, a joint effort of CSBA and four wellness and physical activity resources, sample policies, other state school boards associations (Illinois, Maine, case studies and fact sheets. Pennsylvania and Washington), graciously allowed its Invaluable to the development of the “Healthy Food work on policy development to be adapted to create Policy Resource Guide” was the participation of CSBA’s the Policy Development worksheets. The section on the Children’s Health Task Force. The task force was chaired Board’s Role in Policy is based on CSBA’s publication, by CSBA Past President Marilyn Buchi, and included the “Maximizing School Board Leadership.” In addition, following board members: