Go for the Gold: Join the HealthierUS School Challenge

Refuel After-school with Food and Fitness

Whole Grains for Healthy Schools

School wellness policy training

8 Culinary Techniques for Healthy School Meals (33 CEU's) - The National Food Service Management Institute developed six short courses to help school nutrition teams prepare healthier school meals that appeal to the taste of today's students. Learn about nutrition, food production and culinary techniques that will improve your school nutrition programs. School foodservice

HealthierUS School Challenge (Now available to middle and high schools too!) - Be part of the childhood obesity solution! Join over 700 schools nationwide that have met the HealthierUS School Challenge. Discover how schools can excel at supporting children’s health by ensuring students receive healthy school meals and other foods sold in schools, nutrition education and opportunities for physical activity. Take home strategies
and resources that will ensure success. School staff

Evaluating School Wellness: Easier than You Think! - Bring your wellness policy to this interactive workshop and learn how to evaluate your progress in implementing wellness policy goals for nutrition education, physical
activity, school meals, and other foods. Learn how to develop realistic and measurable goals. Learn about ready-to-use evaluation tools you can tap into. School staff

Marketing Meal Appeal - Discover innovative ways to get the word out and promote your healthful, tasty new options, like whole grains, fruits, vegetables and nonfat and lowfat dairy foods. Learn how to create an eye-appealing serving line that will entice students to choose new healthy options. Walk away with ideas and resources to involve teachers and parents in reinforcing healthy choices in the cafeteria too. School foodservice

Updated Dec 2011! Putting Your Local Wellness Policy into Action - The 2010 Federal legislation that renews the child nutrition programs,includes new expanded rules for local wellness policies. This workshop addresses wellness policy requirement, old and new, and provides strategies and tools schools can use to implement and evaluate their policy. Learn about effective nutrition education programs, physical activity programs for the classroom and tools for wellness policy assessment. Walk away with a list of key resources that will make you a school wellness policy expert! K-Grade 12 school staff.

Training for Child and Adult Care Food Program

Color My Meals Healthy -This three-hour on-site workshop, developed in collaboration with Illinois Association for Education of Young Children, is a fun and interactive training for child care staff to learn how to plan and prepare healthy meals and snacks affordably. Discover how to make menu enhancements that align with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Learn to read labels to identify whole grain, low sodium and lowfat foods.
Child care foodservice staff

8 NEW! Color My Meals Healthy Online - This online version of the Color My Meals Healthy training will make it easy for you to prepare for the menu changes required by The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. Child care staff completing the course will be able to: spot healthy foods using the food label; keep costs down and nutrition up; create meals with kid-appeal; and download ready-to-use healthy cycle menus and recipes. Earn three FREE Professional Development Hours at your own pace.  

Training for preK-12 teachers and coaches

Body Walk ( Health, Science, Afterschool) - A hands-on workshop that provides teens and their advisors the tools and resources needed to plan and implement a fun, interactive tour of the body for elementary children. Each school receives classroom lessons and step-by-step instructions to set up an event. Ideal for a health fair or parent night, the Body Walk excites teens about health advocacy, role modeling and community service. To reserve the Body Walk trunk, containing educational props you need for the event, contact ISBE at cnp@isbe.net or call (800) 545-7892 or (217) 782-2491. Download the Body Walk Manual to see what it is all about. K-Grade 5 teachers

Color Me Healthy (Available for limited time) — Learn how to utilize the award-winning Color Me Healthy curriculum kit to turn nutrition and physical activity lessons into fun and exciting experiences for kids. Learn how you can use color and music to show toddlers that eating healthy and being active can be an adventure. PreK-K teachers

Got Dirt? - Growing Healthy Kids (Multidisciplinary) — Go green! Discover how to create a garden project to bring core subjects alive, encourage healthy eating and increase physical activity for children and adolescents. Got Dirt? – a garden toolkit for the Midwest – will help you plan and grow a garden to support child wellness initiatives. PreK-Grade 6 teachers

Multicultural Make and Taste (Social Science)
A hands-on, interactive workshop that provides cross curricular teaching strategies and activities to allow children to explore cultural diversity. Find out how ethnic foods fit in the MyPyramid food groups. Make and taste new recipes from around the world and walk away with lesson ideas that
intertwine culture and nutrition. PreK-Grade 6 teachers

8 Nutrition A3 Teacher’s Online Course (4 CPDUs) This training introduces teachers to Nutrition A3–a series of six technology-enhanced projects that engage teens in improving their own lifestyle choices and influencing peers to do the same. Created in collaboration with Northwestern University’s iCollaboratory, the program focuses on changing specific behaviors shown to impact teen health. Grades 7-12 classroom and afterschool teachers. Preview Teacher's Guide

Coming in 2012! 8 Raise the Grade with Nutrition Education
Teachers can make a difference in their students’ health and achievement! Learn how you can integrate nutrition education into your curriculum and “walk the talk” by creating a classroom environment that supports healthy choices. Brush up on the latest dietary advice and learn how to snag student interest with fun, interactive nutrition education activities you can plug in to your existing curriculum. Energize students and improve their focus with active breaks.  Discover how you can improve student lifestyle choices while supporting Illinois Learning Standards. Tap into the link between nutrition and learning and reap the benefits in your classroom! Grade K-12 teachers

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