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Healthy Schools
QACPS Wellness Policies and Practices
Willie Waits Supervisor of Instruction Queen Anne’s County Public Schools
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Outcomes: To communicate the feedback/results of the statewide
review of QACPS wellness policy.
To highlight district and school wellness initiatives.
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Maryland Wellness Policies and Practices Project (WPPP)
Maryland Wellness Policies and Practices Project (WPPP)
Goal: To enhance opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity for Maryland students by helping schools and school systems create and implement strong and comprehensive written wellness policies.
Federal Legislation
Written LWPs (School System)
LWP Implementation
(System & School)
Enhanced Opportunities for Health and
Wellness
Improved Child Health & Academic
Performance
Quality
Implementation
Impact
Communicate
Monitor
Build
Recommendations
Feedback
to School
Systems
Spring
Wellness
Meeting
Technical
Assistance
Maryland Wellness Policies & Practices Project: 2012-2013 Survey Components
Strength and Comprehensiveness of Written Wellness Policies
Statewide School System Implementation of Wellness Policies and Practices
School-Level Implementation of Wellness Policies and Practices
School-Level School Health Councils
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Quality of Written Wellness Policy Queen Anne’s County vs. Maryland School Systems
(Mean Score)
100 100
88
93
100
96
61
53
57
42
72
57
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Nutrition Education &
Wellness Promotion
USDA Child Nutrition
Programs
Competitive and Other Foods
& Beverages
Physical Education & Physical
Activity
Evaluation Overall Score
Comprehensiveness Scores:
Comprehensiveness Queen Anne's Comprehensiveness MD
WellSA
T W
eigh
ted
Score
Quality of Written Wellness Policy Queen Anne’s County vs. Maryland School Systems
(Mean Score)
89
71
44
64
100
74
34
30
14
23
38
28
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Nutrition Education & Wellness
Promotion
USDA Child Nutrition Programs Competitive and Other Foods &
Beverages
Physical Education & Physical
Activity
Evaluation Overall Score
Strength Scores:
Strength Queen Anne's Strength MD
Implementation: Schools
School Administrator Survey
Targeting: “The person who had the responsibility of supporting implementation of wellness policies in our schools, preferably an administrator”
State-Wide Response Rate 56% (757/1356)
Queen Anne’s County Response Rate 86% (12/14)
School-Level Implementation of
Wellness Policies & Practices
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% of School Administrators reporting that
their School System…
Queen
Anne’s
Maryland
had a school health council to address
general health and wellness issues
25% 47%
provides technical assistance to schools for
evaluating local wellness policy
implementation in schools.
25% 28%
provides public updates on the content and
implementation of local wellness policies.
25% 36%
has a mechanism in place to encourage
teachers and school health professionals to
participate in developing and updating
local wellness policies.
33% 43%
School-Level Implementation of
Wellness Policies & Practices % of School Administrators reporting that their School
System…
Queen
Anne’s
Marylan
d
monitors implementation of the local wellness policy. 36% 29%
provides annual progress reports to the school
system on school-level implementation of local
wellness policies.
73% 20%
communicates the status of school-level
implementation of local wellness policies to school
staff and/or parents and families.
18% 27%
provides opportunities for parent and/or student
input on wellness policy implementation.
9% 15%
has secured funds from the school system or
outside/private funds to support nutrition and
physical activity priorities for students and staff.
0% 22%
has activities involving families to support and
promote healthy eating and physical activity among
students.
9% 21%
has integrated nutrition and physical activity goals
into the overall school improvement plan.
36% 18%
Implementation: Schools
% of School Administrators reporting that their School
System…
Queen Anne’s
County Maryland
had a school health council to address general health and
wellness issues 25% 47%
% of School Administrators reporting that their
School…
Queen Anne’s
County Maryland
monitors implementation of the local wellness policy. 36% 29%
has integrated nutrition and physical activity goals into
the overall school improvement plan. 36% 18%
Implementation: Schools School-Level School Health Councils
Compared to schools without a school health council in place, schools with a school health council or wellness team were more likely to
• monitor the implementation of the local wellness policy
• integrate nutrition and physical activity goals into the overall school improvement plan.
47%
53%
Maryland
% with a School
Health Council
% without a
School Health
Council
25%
75%
Queen Anne's County
% with a School
Health Council
% without a School
Health Council
Recommendations: System Level Implementation
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1. Maintain a system-level school health council that is
broadly representative of the system and community.
2. Identify resources to fund a position/stipend to support
implementation of wellness policy provisions
3. Develop wellness policy implementation and monitoring
plans and communicate them to students, families, and the
community
4. Train administrators and staff to support designing,
implementing, promoting and evaluating wellness policies
Communicate
5. Report Wellness Policy goals and action steps to the Local
School Board regularly.
6. Communicate school system’s wellness initiatives with
school-level wellness councils and school administrators.
7. Inform the public regarding progress in wellness
policy implementation and wellness practices
Monitor
8. Conduct regular wellness policy meetings to review and
revise wellness policies.
9. Measure semi annually or annually the progress made in
attaining the goals of the school system wellness policy.
10. Provide school-level guidance and technical assistance
on the evaluation and reporting of wellness policy
implementation.
Recommendations:
School Level Implementation
Build
1. Establish a school based wellness team, with a
designated coordinator, that is broadly representative of the
school and community.
2. Develop school wellness goals and implementation
plans that connect with school improvement team goals.
3. Identify resources to support implementation of wellness
policy provisions at the school.
Communicate
4. Communicate and promote the importance of healthy
eating and physical activity for students, families, and the
community.
Monitor
5. Gather and report school-level data on wellness policy
implementation.
Health Education: Instructional Program
Elementary PreK-5: Nutrition education topics are integrated within the physical education programs. Grades 6-8: Health education is being taught using the MSC for Health. Grades 9-12: The nutrition education programs focus on students’ eating behaviors based on effective research that is consistent with the state’s/district’s health education standards/guidelines/framework.
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Health & Wellness Initiatives Food Supplement Nutrition Education University of Maryland Extension Uma Borkar, Family and Consumer Sciences (Nutrition)
The Wellness Connection QAC Health Department Dr. Joseph Ciotola, Health Officer Iris Carter, R.N.C., B.S.N., Wellness Connection Coordinator Margaret C. Kaufman, R.N., B.S.N., School Health Program Coordinator Citizen CPR Training for Teachers QAC Health Department Dr. Joseph Ciotola, Health Officer National School Lunch Program New Food Guidelines Sodexo Education: General Manager Queen Anne's County Board of Education 16
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