Monitoring and Plan Review
The superintendent or designee will ensure compliance with established districtwide nutrition and physical activity wellness policies. In each school, the principal or designee will ensure compliance with those policies in his school and will report on the school's compliance to the superintendent or designee.
School food service staff, at the school or district level, will ensure compliance with nutrition policies within school food service areas and will report on this matter to the superintendent. In addition, the school district will report on the most recent USDA School Meals Initiative (SMI) review findings and any resulting changes. If the district has not received a SMI review from the state agency within the past five years, the district will request from the state agency that a SMI review be scheduled as soon as possible.
Using the appropriate portions of the Coordinated School Health Index (CSHI), the superintendent or designee will develop a summary report annually on districtwide compliance with the district's established nutrition and physical activity wellness policies, based on survey input from schools within the district. That report will be provided to the school board and also distributed to all school health councils, parent/teacher organizations, school principals and school health services personnel in the district.
To help with the initial development of the district's wellness policies, each school will conduct a baseline CHSI assessment of its nutrition and physical activity environments and policies. The results will be compiled at the district level to identify and prioritize needs.
Assessments will be repeated annually to help review the plan compliance, assess progress and determine areas in need of improvement. As part of that review, the school district will review our nutrition and physical activity policies; provision of an environment that supports healthy eating and physical activity; and nutrition and physical education policies and program elements. The district, and individual schools within the district, will, as necessary, revise the wellness policies and develop work plans to facilitate their implementation.
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- Author: Sharon Lawrence-Benbow
- Updated: June 30, 2009