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Successful Students Eat Smart and Move More is a social marketing intervention intended to create a buzz around school wellness policies, so that policies are implemented, monitored, evaluated, discussed regularly and modified as needed to meet the changing needs of schools, staff and students. Successful Students resources support each of the Local Wellness Policy (LWP) requirements.
Nutrition Education and Physical Activity
The LWP shall include goals for nutrition education, physical activity and other school-based activities that are designed to promote student wellness in a manner that the local educational agency (LEA) determines is appropriate.
Successful Student Resources
Food For Thought is a K-5 curriculum that allows for teaching the nutrition objectives of the Healthful Living Standard Course of Study while integrating the concepts of healthy eating and physical activity into Math and English Language Arts. To download the 30 lesson plans, click HERE.
Energizers are classroom-based physical activities that integrate physical activity with academic concepts. These are short (about 10 minutes) activities that elementary and middle school classroom teachers can use to provide activity to students to help meet the requirement of the North Carolina State Board of Education's Healthy Active Children Policy. Activities can be downloaded HERE.
Nutrition Guidelines for All Foods Available During the School Day
The LWP shall include nutrition guidelines selected by the local educational agency for all foods available on each school campus under the local educational agency during the school day with the objectives of promoting student health and reducing childhood obesity.
Successful Student Resources
Action Tools are two-page handouts that describe how Local Wellness Policies can impact the food and physical activity environments at school, and how a healthy school environment promotes student and school success. Use these to talk with local school board members, school administrators, School Health Advisory Councils and PTA groups to get them involved in these important issues.
- Celebrations at School
- Classroom Rewards
- Concessions
- Foods from Home
- Fundraising
- Making Eating Enjoyable
- School Stores
- Vending
White Papers provide a more detailed look at the seven key behaviors in the North Carolina Obesity Prevention Plan.
- Breastfeed Your Baby
- Choose To Move More Every Day
- Enjoy More Fruits And Vegetables
- Prepare And Eat More Meals At Home
- Rethink Your Drink
- Right Size Your Portions
- Tame The Tube
Guidelines for Reimbursable School Meals
The LWP shall include guidelines for reimbursable school meals, which are no less restrictive than the program requirements and nutrition standards set forth under the 7 CFR Part 210 and Part 220.
Successful Student Resources
Action Tools are two-page handouts that describe how Local Wellness Policies can impact the food and physical activity environments at school, and how a healthy school environment promotes student and school success. Use these to talk with local school board members, school administrators, School Health Advisory Councils and PTA groups to get them involved in these important issues.
- Celebrations at School
- Classroom Rewards
- Concessions
- Foods from Home
- Fundraising
- Making Eating Enjoyable
- School Stores
- Vending
Students Succeed with School Meals: The Healthy, Low-Cost Choice is a promotional tool kit designed for use by Child Nutrition professionals in North Carolina. The items are intended to promote the school meals program to families, teachers and principals. The tool kit was developed after conducting focus groups with these three audiences and getting input from managers, supervisors and directors. Materials and messages reflect the needs of all the groups. The kit can be downloaded HERE.
Measuring Implementation of Local Wellness Policy
The LWP shall include a plan for measuring implementation of the Local Wellness Policy, including designation of one or more persons within the local educational agency or at each school, as appropriate, charged with operational responsibility for ensuring that each school fulfills the district's LWP.
Successful Student Resources
Involvement of School Community
The LWP shall include community involvement, including families, students, and representatives of the school food authority, the school board, school administrators, and the public in the development of the school wellness policy.
Successful Student Resources
General Resources on Local Wellness Policy include a brochure, family flyer and PowerPoint presentation that describe how Local Wellness Policies impact student and school success.
Community Relations/Media Toolkit will help you gain support from your community. Use these resources to educate families, teachers and the community at large on the importance of your Local Wellness Policy.
Media
- Sample Feature Article (Word)
- Sample Feature Article (PDF)
- Sample Op Ed Article (Word)
- Sample Op Ed Article (PDF)
- Sample Press Release (Word)
- Sample Press Release (PDF)
- Working With The Media (PDF)
PTA Newsletters
- January - School Stores
- February - School Celebrations
- March - Classroom Rewards
- April - Foods From Home
- May - Making Eating Enjoyable
- June - Promoting Local Wellness Policy
- July - Establishing Community Support
- August - Wellness Policy 101
- September - Student Success With PA and Nutrition
- October - School Vending
- November - Fundraising
- December - School Concessions
Ads
Additional Resources to Support Local Wellness Policy
Materials and Resources were presented at trainings for school and community personnel working with Local Wellness Policy in North Carolina.
Speaker Presentations
- Bell To Bell Nutrition Integrity
- How Well Are We Doing With Wellness
- Where There Is A Will There Are Many Ways