Student Health
The new guidelines define key agreements for providing a safe, nourishing environment for teaching and learning. The guidelines booklet includes clearly written and colorfully illustrated descriptions of each guideline.
It offers helpful suggestions about what works and what doesn’t work in practice toward making schools “a place where our values...
Making the Case is a set of tools comprising a two-minute video, a PowerPoint that users can customize for their presentations, a PDF packed with research, and an at-a-glance infographic. The tools summarize extensive research that documents the links between school food, better nutrition, academic success, and student health.
They also highlight...
Schools can use this online self-assessment and planning tool to improve their health and safety policies and programs. It's designed to be easy to use and completely confidential. The SHI is based on CDC’s research-based guidelines for school health programs, which identify the policies and practices most likely to be effective in reducing youth health...
Smarter Lunchrooms use easy no-cost and low-cost changes to encourage students to select, eat, and enjoy healthier foods in school without eliminating their abiliy to choose. The Movement's mission is to equip school lunchrooms with evidence-based tools that improve eating behaviors and thus improve the health of children. These interventions can also...
