Training programs to initiate and enhance your school's local wellness policy

NEW! Linking Community, Parents and Schools for Children’s Health
School staff will learn how to plan awareness, education and outreach programs that promote healthful food choices and daily physical activity. Discover how to create fun and engaging wellness outreach activities to hook your audience’s interest and reel them in. Ready-to-use ideas
and resources provided. School staff

ONLINE Training for Food Service Staff: Culinary Techniques for Healthy School Meals - 33 CEUs - 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

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

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

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

Putting Your Local Wellness Policy Into Action - Have a wellness policy, but stuck on where to locate nutrition and physical education resources? Discover resources available and effective strategies to assist school
staff with meeting the wellness policy requirements for nutrition education, physical activity and school nutrition. Explore a variety of ready-to-use, evidence-based wellness curriculum and programs to find one that meets your needs. K-Grade 12 school staff

Training programs to promote and enhance nutrition education and physical activity

NEW! Refuel Afterschool with Food and Fitness – Afterschool staff will learn new skills for teaching kids about eating healthy and being physically active. Discover fun and creative hands-on activities that promote nutrition and physical fitness. Pick up tips on how to connect to parents and reinforce healthy habits at home. Get links to federal programs that support healthy snacks and meals in afterschool programs. K-Grade 12 Afterschool Staff

REVISED! Multicultural Make and Taste (Social Science)
A hands-on, interactive workshop that provides crosscurricular 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

ONLINE Training: Nutrition A3 Teacher’s 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. Students create their own cooking show, map out physical activity opportunities in their community and more as they explore topics like MyPyramid, fruits and vegetables, fast food and screen time. Grades 7-12 classroom and afterschool teachers

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.
K-Grade 5 teachers

Color Me Healthy — 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

Color My Meals Healthy -This three-hour 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

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

A Game Plan for Sports Nutrition (Physical Education) — Students need to make smart food and beverage choices to get their “game on”. Learn the basics of sports nutrition and explore hot topics like supplements and fluid
replacement-everything student athletes need to know to win. Participating schools will leave with a nutrition playbook packed with useful information for coaches and student athletes! Grades 6-12 coaches

ONLINE Workshop-Nutrition Education That Works: An Integrated Approach–You can have the best of both worlds! Meet Illinois Learning Standards and support student health with these Team Nutrition curriculum. Each lesson has been matched to the Illinois Learning Standards. Learners can complete the online training at their own pace.
PreK-Grade 5 teachers. Access here.

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