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Atlanta ISDSchool Health Advisory Council

Annual Progress ReportTo the Board of Trustees

May 25, 2010

School Health Advisory Council

Every independent school district is required by law to have a school health advisory council (SHAC) of which the majority of members must be parents who are not employed by the school district. The SHAC is annually appointed by the local education agency Board of Trustees.

Texas Education CodeTitle 2, Chapter 28, Section 28.004

Atlanta ISD SHAC Members2009-2010

Ms. Sandra Rose: Chairperson/ParentMr. Tom Crow: Co-Chairperson/ParentMrs. Rena Schaeffer: Secretary/Registered DietitianMrs. Angela Guillory: ParentMrs. Latonia Garner: ParentMr. Ryan Jones: StudentMr. George Rowe, III: ParentMrs. Donna Wilkins: Food ServicesDr. Danny Addington: Dentist/ParentDr. Kristi Henderson: Physician/ParentMs. Bethany Marmon: StudentMr. Doug Beeman: Fitness ProfessionalMrs. Pam Lincoln: Texas AgriLifeMs. Dora Whatley: Health ServicesMrs. Teresa Allday: ParentAdvisory Capacity: Linda Howard, Health Services; Mary Dowd, Administration; Kara DeLay, Health Services

What is a SHAC?

A SHAC is a group of individuals representing segments of the community and school district which provides advice to the district on coordinated school health (CSH) programming and its impact on student health and learning.

Coordinated School Health

All Texas schools are required by law to implement a CSH program in grades K-8.

Texas Education CodeTitle 3, Chapter 38, Section 38.013

What is Coordinated School Health?

Coordinated School Health is a systematic approach of advancing student academic performance by promoting, practicing, and coordinating school health education and services for the benefit and well-being of students in establishing healthy behaviors designed to last a lifetime.

Coordinated School Health

Coordinated School HealthEight Components

• Health Education• Healthy and Safe School Environment• Counseling and Mental Health Services• Parent and Community Involvement• Staff Wellness Promotion• Health Services• Physical Education• Nutrition Services

2009-2010 Texas Goals for Districts and Campuses

Increase percentage of students able to achieve the healthy fitness zone standard in all six required test items.

Develop and implement goals and objectives for physical education/activity programs after reviewing data collected through fitness assessment and other evaluation methods.

Incorporate CSH as a part of Campus Improvement Plans.

Strengthen and utilize SHACs to support the implementation of all school health policies and practices.

The National Health Education Standards

The National Health Education Standards (NHES) are written expectations for what students should know and be able to do by grades 2, 5, 8, and 12 to promote personal, family, and community health.

The standards provide a framework for curriculum development and selection, instruction, and student assessment in health education.

http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/sher/standards/order-overview.htm


Standard 1:Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Standard 2:Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Standard 3:Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Standard 4:Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.



Standard 5:Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Standard 6:Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Standard 7:Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Standard 8:Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal,family, and community health.


Recent Legislation81st Texas Legislature

Senate Bill 283:

Requires the local board of trustees to appoint at least five members to the local school health advisory council.

The council is required to meet at least four times a year and must annually submit recommendations regarding the district's health education curriculum.

If human sexuality will be taught, the district must provide written notice, a summary of course content, and information on parents' rights.


Senate Bill 891:

Requires that full-day prekindergarten students participate in at least 30 minutes of moderate or vigorous daily activity throughout the school year. To the extent practicable, students enrolled in half-day prekindergarten must participate in the same type and amount of physical activity as those in full day programs.

Also requires the district to identify how the safety of students will be maintained if the student to teacher ratio is greater than 45 to 1. Additional regulations regarding the physical education curriculum are addressed.


Senate Bill 892:

Expands requirements of an elementary or junior high Campus Improvement Plan to develop goals/objectives for the CSH program at the campus based on the fitness assessment data, academic performance data, student attendance rates, percentage of Low SES, use and success of any method to ensure student participation in physical activities or other recommendations by health advisory council. (Not applicable for high school.)


Senate Bill 1344:

Directs school districts to choose an evidenced based alcohol awareness instructional program to use in the district's middle school, junior high school, and high school health curriculum.

The curriculum must include the causes, consequences, signs, symptoms, and treatment of binge drinking and alcohol poisoning.


House Bill 3076:

Allows districts to use the parenting and paternity awareness program developed by the State Board of Education in conjunction with the office of the attorney general in middle or junior high school curricula.

School districts and teachers may use their discretion to modify the suggested sequence and pace of the program at any grade level. Students under 14 years of age must have parental permission to participate in the parenting and paternity awareness program.


House Bill 3

Overhauls state accountability and graduation requirements.

Students in the Recommended High School Plan are no longer required to complete a ½ credit in health education and are now required to complete one credit in physical education rather than one and ½ credits.


SB 282 by Senator Jane Nelson, passed to allow the Texas Department of Agriculture to set up two grant programs: one to support schools using best practices in nutrition education and another to support community and faith-based organizations and early childhood education programs that provide nutrition education to children.

SB 343 by Senator Jane Nelson, creates an advisory committee to study the availability of healthy foods in underserved areas of Texas. The advisory committee will report back to the Legislature an implementation plan for a statewide program that would bring healthy foods to areas of the state that do not have access to fresh fruit and vegetable retailers.


SB 1027 by Senator Kirk Watson, establishes a farm-to-school task force to promote the availability of locally grown fresh foods in public schools. The task force will provide schools with training and technical assistance, create a database of available locally grown food, and implement a grant program for schools to recover the cost of purchasing locally grown fresh food.

SB 395 by Senator Eddie Lucio Jr., creates the Early Childhood Health and Nutrition Interagency Council to assess barriers and best practices to improving healthy nutrition and physical activity in early childhood care settings, and to develop a plan for increasing physical activity and healthy nutrition in early childhood care settings.

State Legislated SHAC RequirementsCommittee-related

The following are requirements of local SHACs per legislation:

A parent must serve as a co-chairA minimum of five members must be appointed to serve on the SHAC by Board of TrusteesMajority of members must be parents who are not employees of the districtSHAC must meet at least 4 times a yearSHAC must deliver an annual report to the Board of Trustees SHAC is required to submit recommendations regarding the districts’ health education curriculum

State Legislated RequirementsDistrict/Campus-Related

SHACs can provide oversight for the following activitiesrequired of local campus/districts per legislation:

Provide written notice, course content and parents’ rights regarding sexuality education if taughtEnsure that full-day pre-k students participate in 30 minutes of daily vigorous activityInclude goals and objectives for CSH in HS and MS Campus Improvement PlansAdminister FitnessGram® to all students in grades 3-12Choose an evidenced based alcohol awareness instructional programUse the PAPA program in HS or MS health classesComply with revised graduation requirements

FitnessGram®

Senate Bill 530 required beginning with the 2007-08 school year, that the FitnessGram® physical fitness assessment be administered to all students in grades 3-12.

FitnessGram® is a health-related fitness assessment developed by The Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research and is a research-based criterion referenced test.

FitnessGram®

FitnessGram® establishes a baseline of a healthy fitness zone from which students can set goals and check their progress (non-competitive) to plan for lifelong physical activity and to maintain and improve their fitness level. Health-related fitness assessment measures students’ aerobic capacity, muscular strength/endurance, flexibility and body composition.

FitnessGram® provides recommended activity program options that will help students reach healthy fitness zones in those areas where they need to improve.

FitnessGram® does not place an emphasis on skill or sports-related fitness such as speed measured by an individual’s 40 yard dash time. It does not compare students to other students.

Texas State Data

Significant Relationships Between Physical Fitness and Indicators of Academic Achievement

At schools that have earned the state’s top rating of Exemplary, about 80 percent of the students have healthy levels of cardiovascular fitness.

At schools that have received the state’s lowest rating called Academically Unacceptable, slightly more than 40 percent of the students achieved cardiovascular fitness.

Higher levels of fitness were associated with better school attendance.

Higher levels of fitness at a school were also associated with fewer disciplinary incidents. The research looked at the number of incidents involving drugs, alcohol, violence and truancy.

Counties with high levels of cardiovascular fitness tended to have high passing rates on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS). Regional and county data can be found at www.texasyouthfitnessstudy.org.

Distribution of BMI Achievement andTAKS Achievement by County

ATL ISD

Campus FitnessGram® Data

District Name Grade Gender

Total students assessed

Total % achieving HFZ five times

Total achieving HFZ more than 5 times

Total % achieving HFZ more than 5 times

Total achieving HFZ five times

ATLANTA ISD 3 Girls 44 36.3636 22 50 16

ATLANTA ISD 3 Boys 76 28.9474 39 51.3158 22

ATLANTA ISD 4 Girls 66 24.2424 40 60.6061 16

ATLANTA ISD 4 Boys 84 32.1429 29 34.5238 27


ATLANTA ISD 5 Boys 75 26.6667 15 20 20


ATLANTA ISD 6 Boys 71 32.3944 16 22.5352 23


ATLANTA ISD 7 Boys 77 24.6753 17 22.0779 19


ATLANTA ISD 8 Boys 77 22.0779 28 36.3636 17

ATLANTA ISD 9 Girls 67 16.4179 < 5 7.46269 11

ATLANTA ISD 9 Boys 75 29.3333 21 28 22

ATLANTA ISD 10 Girls 70 12.8571 7 10 9

ATLANTA ISD 10 Boys 59 22.0339 17 28.8136 13

ATLANTA ISD 11 Girls 64 14.0625 < 5 6.25 9

ATLANTA ISD 11 Boys 39 30.7692 8 20.5128 12

ATLANTA ISD 12 Girls 49 8.16327 < 5 < 5 < 5

ATLANTA ISD 12 Boys 60 21.6667 18 30 13

Atlanta ISDGrowth Data Summary 2009-2010

Body Mass Index (BMI)

School Number Screened

Number85% tile

Percent85th tile

Number95th%tile

Percent95th%tile

Number 85th-100th

% tile

Percent85th-95th

% tile

PrimarySchool

478 57 0.12 78 0.16 135 0.28

ElemSchool

413 66 0.16 105 0.25 171 0.41

MiddleSchool

409 80 0.19 107 0.26 187 0.45

HighSchool

481 88 0.19 119 0.25 207 0.44

DistrictTotal

1781 291 0.16 409 0.23 700 0.39

Other Data Sets

Atlanta ISD SHAC Goals

1. Increase number of children in healthy fitness zone as assessed by FitnessGram®

2. Improve safety and health of the school environment

3. Implement policies and procedures that impact student health

4. Implement students’ needs related to health knowledge and skill

5. Improve employee wellness

SHAC Activity Report

1. Worth the Wait2. Teen in the Driver Seat3. Fitness Now grant 4. ATL website updated to include SHAC

minutes5. School menus on the ATL ISD website6. Developed an awareness of the impact of

the Fitnessgram data

Atlanta ISD Information

Agendas and approved minutes of all meetings can be found at the www.atlisd.netClick on the Parent’s tabClick on SHAC under Parent’s information

http://www.atlisd.net

SHAC Recommendations

1. Continue Teen in the Drivers Seat program during school year 2010 – 2011

2. Purchase and implement Foundations in Personal Finance, A Financial Peace School Curriculum, during school year 2010 – 2011

3. Contract with current software provider, MCS, to make nutritional data for purchased and processed foods available to students, parents, and staff

SHAC Recommendations Continued

4. Graduation requirement should include ½ credit of Health

5. Recognition of challenges of student obesity in the District

2009-2010 SHAC Meeting Dates

1. September2. November3. January4. March5. May

(Minimum of four meetings required annually. Anyone is welcome to attend any meeting.)

Useful Web SitesTexas School Health Advisory Committee:www.dshs.state.tx.us/schoolhealth/shadvise.shtm

TXPTA Healthy Lifestyle Web page:www.txpta.org/programs/healthy-lifestyles

TEA Fitness Data: www.tea.state.tx.us./index4.aspx?id=3975

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (YRBS) Survey: www.dshs.state.tx.us/chs/yrbs/query/yrbss_form.shtm

CDC Coordinated School Health: www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/CSHP

Texas Department of Agriculture Square Meals: www.squaremeals.org/fn/home/page/0,1248,2348_2349_0_0,00.html

Regional Education Service Centers: http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/ESC

Texas Legislature Online: www.capitol.state.tx.us

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