Nutrition Education in the K-12 Curriculum The Role of National Standards: Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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6 Perspectives from Educators
6 Perspectives from Educators
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• Nutrition education standards should provide a framework that teachers and school districts can use to develop compre hensive K-12 nutrition programs. • Students need strategies, techniques, and knowledge to make healthy decisions.
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It is not." The Colorado State Board currently has four Republicans and three Democrats. Thus, for votes pertaining to nutrition education, that means "it's never quite smooth sailing." Starting in 2009, Colorado added comprehensive health education standards to its preexisting academic standards.
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"We have a lot of policies but, in many cases, we have no way of knowing if they get implemented." In Colorado, the State Board of Education has the authority to adopt academic content standards, but the curriculum is left up to the local school district. Nevertheless, many districts, and especially small rural districts, are eager to use model curricula made available by the state or other entity.
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maybe that's because they're overeating to begin with." And having sufficient time and money are always considerations in making and certifying changes in education. PERSPECTIVE OF A SUPERINTENDENT The Elk Grove Unified School District in southern Sacramento County, California, is not only the "face of California," according to its superintendent Steven Ladd, but the "face of the world." Its 62,000 students spread across 320 square miles are 26 percent Latino, 25 percent white, 22 percent Asian American, and 18 percent African American, with a wide range of other ancestral backgrounds included.
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In that regard, Ladd urged the use of SHAPE as a national model for offering healthy meals in child nutrition programs, providing nutrition education, building and maintaining partnerships, and applying nutrition policies and practices. He also urged the development of a nutritional framework that provides competencies as opposed to standards alone.
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" California is a member of one of the two consortia that are developing Common Core standards and assessments, and the state plans to impose additional requirements beyond those of the Common Core. This process will provide an opportunity to incorporate nutrition content and assessments into other subjects, whether science, the language arts, or mathematics.
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In the 1970s, during which the rate of breakups of American families grew substantially, schools added drug and alcohol abuse education, parenting education, behavior adjustment classes, character education, special education, Title IX programs, environmental education, women's studies, African American heritage education, and school breakfast programs. In the 1980s, "the floodgates opened," said Storti, and schools became responsible for keyboarding and computer education, global education, multicultural education, nonsexist education, English as a second language and bilingual education, teen pregnancy awareness, Hispanic heritage education, early childhood education, full-day kindergarten, various preschool and afterschool programs, alternative education, antismoking education, expanded health and psychological services, and child abuse monitoring.
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A key step will be to involve national organizations in the conversation, such as the National Association of Elementary School Principals, the National Education Association, and national superintendents' organizations. "Getting the right stakeholders to the table can leverage this." Principals are critical to the process and need to do five things, according to Storti: 1.
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Thus, teaching students to make good choices extends beyond foods to other types of behavior, such as the use of drugs or alcohol or personal safety measures, such as wearing a helmet while biking. Dane's goal is to give his students the strategies and techniques they need to make good decisions.
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Dane is part of a professional learning cohort at his school that is focused on fitness and nutrition and includes about 25 members, including teachers, librarians, and special education instructors. The group has looked at issues such as vending machines, the school lunch program, special events, and bake sales.
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