Coordinated School Health Program
School Health Coordinator: Stanley
Cooper
Stanley
Cooper started off as a high school teacher at Evergreen High School in
Colorado. The subject he taught was
anatomy. Stanley Cooper was always interested in the human body, but became
more interested in health when his wife and he had a son who was diagnosed with
diabetes as a young child. After that happened to his son he not only was the
anatomy teacher at his school but also started health programs there. As the
years went he discovered he enjoyed spending his time teaching people about
health and nutrition. He then began to develop a Health and Nutrition group
within his county of Jefferson in Colorado. His health and nutrition group grew
more than anyone in the county expected and in result got the attention of Cass
County in North Dakota. Although Cass County has a Food, Nutrition, and Health
Program Stanley Cooper has been hired to provide Cass County schools with extra
knowledge about health and nutrition, to put on programs, and activities for the
schools. Stanley Cooper has eight other board members working with him to
spread the knowledge about health and nutrition. He will hold School Health Council
meetings on the first Thursday of every month, and will also have presentations
for the School Board the second Monday of every month. These presentations will
tell the School Board what programs and activities will be going on in Cass
County high schools the following month. Stanley Cooper plans on going to each
high school in the county and teaching them about Myplate as one of his
programs. An example of one of his activities is holding a carnival, one day
out of the year for each school, in the summer, that has many different
physical activities to do such as: three-legged race, hula hooping competition,
tug a war, bike races, and more. Also at this carnival it will not have
carnival junk food but nutrition fun food and at each station there will be a
sign that says what carnival food this replaces and how many less calories it
is and what it does for your body. We will do activities like this during the
kids physical education classes at the beginning of the year to start the kids
off with a positive attitude about physical education classes. To let you know
Stanley Cooper a little more we will provide some information about him: he is
Caucasian, a male, a Republican, he is 41, is married, and has 2 kids.
Step 2
Brooks
Bollinger is from Bismarck, North Dakota. He has decided to dedicate some of
his time to Cass County Coordinated School Health Program because he know the
obesity is a problem for America, but he wants to fight it off the best he can
and has decided to help Cass County. Brooks Bollinger played college football
at the University of Wisconsin and went on to get drafted by the New York Jets.
By getting someone who has succeeded in life and made his name known into the
high schools of Cass County will make students listen to what Brooks Bollinger
has to say about health and nutrition. He will visit schools in Cass County
once every year to talk about the importance of eating right and exercising.
The State of Maine Learning Results says students
will understand how to reduce their health risks through the practice of
healthy behaviors. We believe that our Coordinated School Health Program will
teach the county of Cass the same thing through activities and programs, like Brooks
Bollinger coming to talk to students and the carnival idea. That way we will
teach the idea of importance of health and fitness but have fun.
Meetings: What: The meetings that will be held will discuss how well
the program is doing, improvements that can be made, if the current programs
and activities are working to improve education about health and nutrition, and
answer any questions about the program.
Location: Cass
County Board of Education
When: School Health
Council meetings on the first Thursday of every month starting August and end
in May
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Will Consist
of:
·
Getting
the support of the community so they will fund some of the activities we have
planned.
·
Show
how physical education that has been cut from some schools and how it affected
that school.
Step 3
Advertisement
·
On
the homepage of Cass County’s website, www.casscountynd.gov, there will be a advertisement telling the people of Cass County what
the Coordinated Health Plan has planned for Cass County schools.
·
There will also be a advertisement in Cass County Reporter listing the time
and date of the meeting.
·
There
will be three billboards spaced accordingly in Cass County
Billboard:
Cass County Schools
“Teaching Students Exercise
can be FUN!”
Meeting for
Public: Cass County Board of Education
August 8, 2011 6:30
Step 4
Board Members
(8):
Carter Williams: Businessman in Cass
County
Betsy Miller: President of PTA in Central Cass High School/Parent
Clay Simpson: Basketball Coach of West Fargo High
School/Parent
Michel Mann: Physical education teacher at Sullivan
Middle School
Kelsey Hollis: Involved with PTA at North High
School/Parent
Wayne Long: Businessman in Cass County/Parent
Scott Wagner: Commissioner in the Cass County
Government
Cory Steiner: Principle of West Fargo High School
There are
five districts and one person will be on each district, except for the three
largest districts will have two board members on those districts. All board
members will teach each district the same concepts of health and fitness except
if one district has a specific need. Each district will have the same
activities as well as the same amount of activities. By assigning one, or two,
board members to a district it allows for each school in those districts to get
personal attention.
Step 5
Our vision
for the Coordinated School Health Plan is to focus on Physical Education and
Physical Activity. In doing so we belief we will better our P.E. classes and
make our kids of Cass County enjoy exercising and show them there are many different
ways to exercise.
The things
listed below are going to lead us in the right direction of improving Physical
Education and Physical Activity.
·
Improving
P.E. classes
o
High
school, Middle school, and Elementary
§ The Physical Education teachers will
attend the Nutrition and Health Conference every year.
§ The Physical Education teachers must
take their students outside 4 days a week during the months of August-October
and March-May.
§ Have a Physical Fitness Test at
beginning and end of each school year.
o
High
School
§ Learn about a new sport every week:
Baseball, Football, Rugby, Badminton, ect.
§ Practice the new sport you have
learned for the week.
§ Have a short test on the rules of the
game for the sport you learned that week
§ Once a month have a scavenger hunt and
the clues be about the games you learned that month
o
Middle
School
§ Learn about a new sport every week:
Baseball, Football, Rugby, Badminton, ect.
§ Practice the new sport you learn for
the week.
§ Have a day once a month that the kids
vote on their favorite sport for the month and get to play it.
o
Elementary
School
§ Learn about a new basic sport every
two weeks: Baseball, Volleyball, Football, Soccer, ect.
§ On Fridays have station day, each kid
as a station with a fun activity and after ten minutes they rotate to a new
station.
·
Carnival
Day
o
High
school, Middle school, and Elementary School will have it.
o
There
will be fun activities set up like tug-a-war, three-legged races, basketball
free throw competition, and many more.
o
There
will be tables set up that have healthy food at them and on each table there
will be a sign that says what this healthy snack or drink replaces at a
carnival and what are the benefits of eating the healthy one verses the non
healthy one.
·
Brooks
Bollinger
o
He
will come and talk about how P.E. influenced his life and promote physical
fitness.
·
Have
a survey at the end of each school year and ask the students if they belief the
Physical Education class at their school was necessary and fun.
Step 6
Show this chart to committee and tell
them if we do not get Physical Education up to satisfactory needs then it will
soon be taken away from the students. Those counties who have Physical
Education should take full advantage of it.
Figure 7. Percentage of U.S. high school
students attending daily physical education classes. Data from the Youth Risk
Behavioral Surveillance System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(14). [A text
description of this chart is also available.]
How effective are school PE programs in preventing obesity and promoting physical activity? School boards are receiving mixed messages about PE. On one hand, government organizations like the CDC recommend that all schools require daily PE for all students from kindergarten through 12th grade. On the other hand, the predominant conclusion emerging from research studies is that typical school PE is of low quality when compared with ideal PE instruction. School boards, principals, and teachers facing other competing goals, especially academic achievement, may conclude that if existing PE is of limited value, it should be abolished or at least reduced in favor of other academic instruction. However, PE in elementary schools as currently implemented nationwide (and not ideal instruction) plays an important role in containing excess weight gain among girls (13).
·
Health is when we eat correctly, develop healthy exercise and
postural habits and combine these with maintaining a positive outlook.
·
Health Components
o
Physical, Emotional, Social, Environmental,
Mental, and Spiritual
·
Community- a social group of any size who share
government
·
Partnership- an association that has a common
goal and come together because of that goal
We will have a committee party at the end of each year and the district that got the best score on the yearly survey will win a free dinner to the place of their chose.
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