Sign on today and tell the district to adopt the revised wellness policy that will prioritize student health and wellbeing and ensure the district is meeting current federal standards.
The new policy includes recommendations developed by family leaders that:
- Frames student health and wellness within a racial health equity framework
- Enhances accountability for communication and implementation of the policy
- Develops stronger language to support enforcement and implementation of the policy
- Provides better communication with families about the wellness policy
- Includes language about the importance of play based learning
- Strengthens language to ensure recess isn't taken away as a form of punishment
- Adopts a new clause in support of safe routes to school for all students
- Develops a breastfeeding policy for students and staff
- Creates a new policy that says food shall not be used as a reward or punishment
- Updates current nutrition sections to meet federal school meals requirements
- Updates the healthy, physical activity and nutrition education pieces to meet current New York State Department of Education guidelines
- Strengthens language to support professional development for educators and staff on the importance of student health & wellness
- Prioritizes throughout the policy that implementation occur within an inclusive and culturally responsive and sustaining framework
- Adopts comprehensive language to address healthy marketing in schools
- Encourages healthy fundraising and celebration guidelines
- Ensures communication of school meals menus to students and families
- Supports farm to school initiatives to improve school meals
- Includes the School Breakfast Program within nutrition and school meals sections
- Establishes a RCSD Meals Advisory Council
- Identifies how educators can work with support services to address health in the classroom.
Sign on Today! By signing you agree that the RCSD School Board should adopt the newly revised district wellness policy.
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Stop punishing children for being children. Start teaching the whole child. No more taking away recess. Movement matters!
The Children's Agenda organizationally stands with Healthi Kids in full support of these wellness policy recommendations.
Prioritizing health in schools promotes better and more equitable pathways to learning.
Health and wellness encompass all aspects of school. It is very difficult to be academically successful if you aren't physically and mentally healthy.
Lack of health (all dimensions) is an immediate detriment to learning, impacting motivation, ability to process and retain. You can build all other curricular considerations - in vain. If students are not in a position to learn, it is erroneous to think they can be successful. This is true during school age, but also considering the life skills (balancing health considerations) which will be necessary for a fruitful life.
what actually happens is so dependent on the teachers or school. All kids need good food and play!
It is essential that we adopt the revised wellness policy. Please act accordingly.
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Sign on today and tell the district to adopt the revised wellness policy that will prioritize student health and wellbeing and ensure the district is meeting current federal standards.
The new policy includes recommendations developed by family leaders that:
- Frames student health and wellness within a racial health equity framework
- Enhances accountability for communication and implementation of the policy
- Develops stronger language to support enforcement and implementation of the policy
- Provides better communication with families about the wellness policy
- Includes language about the importance of play based learning
- Strengthens language to ensure recess isn't taken away as a form of punishment
- Adopts a new clause in support of safe routes to school for all students
- Develops a breastfeeding policy for students and staff
- Creates a new policy that says food shall not be used as a reward or punishment
- Updates current nutrition sections to meet federal school meals requirements
- Updates the healthy, physical activity and nutrition education pieces to meet current New York State Department of Education guidelines
- Strengthens language to support professional development for educators and staff on the importance of student health & wellness
- Prioritizes throughout the policy that implementation occur within an inclusive and culturally responsive and sustaining framework
- Adopts comprehensive language to address healthy marketing in schools
- Encourages healthy fundraising and celebration guidelines
- Ensures communication of school meals menus to students and families
- Supports farm to school initiatives to improve school meals
- Includes the School Breakfast Program within nutrition and school meals sections
- Establishes a RCSD Meals Advisory Council
- Identifies how educators can work with support services to address health in the classroom.
Sign on Today! By signing you agree that the RCSD School Board should adopt the newly revised district wellness policy.
9 Comments
I am a college professor in the field of health and wellness. Health and wellness are the most foundational pieces of academic success. There is much research to support this. Please vote in favor of helping our students by advocating for health and wellness.
Stop punishing children for being children. Start teaching the whole child. No more taking away recess. Movement matters!
The Children's Agenda organizationally stands with Healthi Kids in full support of these wellness policy recommendations.
Prioritizing health in schools promotes better and more equitable pathways to learning.
Health and wellness encompass all aspects of school. It is very difficult to be academically successful if you aren't physically and mentally healthy.
Lack of health (all dimensions) is an immediate detriment to learning, impacting motivation, ability to process and retain. You can build all other curricular considerations - in vain. If students are not in a position to learn, it is erroneous to think they can be successful. This is true during school age, but also considering the life skills (balancing health considerations) which will be necessary for a fruitful life.
what actually happens is so dependent on the teachers or school. All kids need good food and play!
It is essential that we adopt the revised wellness policy. Please act accordingly.
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I am a college professor in the field of health and wellness. Health and wellness are the most foundational pieces of academic success. There is much research to support this. Please vote in favor of helping our students by advocating for health and wellness.