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Activity For Healthy Activity For Healthy Kids: Challenges & Kids: Challenges &

OpportunitiesOpportunitiesGrowing Healthy Kids in Kentucky WorkshopGrowing Healthy Kids in Kentucky Workshop

September 25 & October 22, 2002September 25 & October 22, 2002

Jim TackettJim Tackett

“A healthy school is one that integrates community, family, and schools to provide for students a positive continuum of intellectual, physical, social and emotional development on which to base lifelong decisions.”

NASBE Healthy Schools Network

Setting the Scene in the U.S.

• The percentage of overweight U.S. children has nearly doubled in the past 20 years.

• 69% of young adolescents reported regular participation in vigorous physical activity while only 38% of youth ages 18-21 engaged in like behavior.

• Daily enrollment in physical education classes dropped from 42% to 29% from 1991 to 1999.

Centers for Disease Control, 2002

Setting the Scene in Kentucky

• In the past week, 59% of high school students participated in vigorous physical activity for at least 20 minutes on at least three day of the past week.

• Nearly 25% of high school students participated in a physical education at least once per week.

• Approximately 30% of students spent 20 minutes or longer actually exercising in high school physical education class.

• On an average day, nearly 19% of high school students watched four or more hours of television.

2001 KY YRBS

“Exercise and recreation are as necessary as reading.”

Thomas Jefferson

Current Challenges to Physical Activity

• Shrinking budgets• Time constraints• Accountability importance• Equipment and facility demands• Teacher comfort• “Active” role models• “Old” stereotypes vs. “New” research• Personnel limitations

Every study shows that children are more attentive after recess –

as the kids would say, “Well, duh!”

Tony Pellegrini

Current Opportunities in Physical Activity

• Available funding• Current research• Curriculum standards• State support• Collaboration• Resources

Resources

Kentucky Dept. of Education Program of Studies, Core Content for Assessment, Academic Expectations

Centers for Disease Control School Health Index, Physical Activity Guidelines

National Association of State Boards of Education

Fit, Healthy & Ready to Learn

National School Board Association

School Health Resource Database

National Association for Sports and Physical Education

National Physical Education Standards

Web Resources• Kentucky Department of Education

www.kentuckyschools.org• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

www.cdc.gov• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,

Recreation & Dancehttp://www.aahperd.org

• American School Health Associationhttp://www.ashaweb.org

• National School Boards Associationhttp://www.nsba.org

• National Association of State Boards of Educationwww.nasbe.org

Resources

• KDE Health & Physical Education consultantConnie Shackelford cshackel@kde.state.ky.us

• Regional Cardiovascular Health CoordinatorsRenee White rwhite@kde.state.ky.usJennifer Embry jembry@kde.state.ky.usJoyce Swetlick jswetlic@kde.state.ky.usJim Tackett jtackett@kde.state.ky.us

“After all of the arguments have been made for one side or the other, it gets down to one thing: movement is about living and living is about learning.”

Eric Jensen