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Students are encouraged to be in work out, feel better, and eat healthy, they are tought that having healthy habits help them do better in school.
Addressing basic need and issues student face come before academics and help students succeed.
Addressing the needs of the kids individually.
Preparing students for not only school but for life.
Lessons learned as adolescents carry into adulthood.
The importance of healthy foods at school and after school.
Nutrition is in constant change. More healthy options are available and unhealthy are no longer provided.this creates positive momentum for healthy choices.
Morning movement helps students be ready to start their day, Dancing instead of sitting.
Sitting for long periods of time makes it harder to listen and process information. Teachers need to use physical activities like brain breaks to help with refocusing students.
Zones of regulation-emotions.
Teachers health directly affects the students.
Teachers need to make healthy choices together healthy lunches, getting flu shots, sharing recipes, walking during breaks, etc. teachers need to work together.
-Karli

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-Learning about and participating in fitness for all levels.
-Understanding why vitamins and avoiding sugary drinks is important.
-Support for feelings of self-esteem.
-Children who are healthy on all levels are more academically successful.
-Promote an optimal learning environment for students.
-Focus needs to be on more than academic achievement.
-Needs of all students, from academic to emotional to social to mental must be addressed.
-Address and meet student basic needs.
-Focus more on the needs of the kids as a whole instead of just test scores.
-Create a coordinated school health program to be aware of personal health to promote health in staff and students.
-School lunches should promote nutrition and offer large variety of healthy foods and include a snack shack for healthy snacks along with a milk machine.
-Physical activity is an important part of each day, include daily movement in classrooms with brain breaks.
-Support the students' emotional health and meet their needs and concerns and help them identify feelings and how to handle them.
-Help them think about their choices and self-identify.
-Address barriers families and students encounter to them attending school, be successful, and to graduate.
-Health concerns are an issue for attendance.
-If staff members aren't healthy, they can't address the health of students.
-Good health of staff helps increase the success of their students.
-Go above and beyond when it comes to addressing and meeting the whole child needs.
-Any school using the national food service must have a wellness policy.
-Education of students goes hand-in-hand with the wellness care of students.

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Morgan was part of a health class, which helped him make better life choices, like food and activity choices.
A child who is socially and physically healthy are more successful academically.
Students come to school with more than their backpack, they come with home/family issues; therefore, schools must address this to help students achieve academically.
We need to view health within the academic teaching.
Wellness lasts a lifetime.
What does health look like.
More children are obese, asthmatics, and sleep issues.
School lunch programs are serving healthier choices, which appeal to children; therefore, more students are taking advantage of lunch from school.
Allowing students to have a say, as to the food choices available at the school, gives them power in making those better food choices.
PE each day makes for more active students.
Student who move often through out the day are less likely to display behavior problems.
Health education can be integrated into all aspects of learning.
Social and emotional health needs to be addressed within the classroom.
Kids are like adults, if I didn't know where I was going to sleep that night, I too, would not be able to function and learn.
Students need to feel safe and secure at school, which then will raise academic scores.
When teachers are not feeling their best, then the student see's and feels this.
Advocate for school-wide health and fitness.

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-Making healthier decisions throughout the day helps children make better decisions in school.
-Children are more than math and language arts, they are healthy, and artistic beings.
-Social, physical, and emotional well being needs to be taught and made a part of the school day.
-Being healthy improves self image and confidence.
-Not all students are taught about nutrition and the importance of exercise.
-Health has a direct relationship with learning.
-Health programs are informative for both students and the adults in their life.
-By teaching children healthy choices and self advocacy, it empowers them to learn and grow into healthy adults.
-Less than 10% of schools have PE daily.
-More physical activity throughout the day increases cognitive function, and promotes a more positive attitude.
-Movement breaks allow students to recenter and refocus.
-Identifying emotions will help students to self regulate.
-Students will implement what they are taught into their lives.

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-Students are able to focus more.
-Feel better about yourself.
-Healthy children do better and score better in the classroom.
-Teach them life long skills on what it looks like to be healthy.
-Staff promoting health and modeling
-Encourage children to make healthy choices at lunch time with providing a variety of foods for them.
-Involve students in deciding healthy choices.
-Start the day with morning movement.
-Incorporate brain breaks throughout the day.
-Staff feeling good about themselves and working together to improve their wellness.
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-Children come with more than with just books, there is excess baggage.
-They need basic needs taken care of first before learning can happen.
-Healthy kids do better
-Unhealthy kids miss 9 more days than those that are healthy.
-Teachers are more aware of the food choices that kids make.
-Giving the kids a choice with a salad bar does great for them to help them to make a healthy choice for themselves.
-Milk machine instead of a pop machine.
-Physical activity gets cut short due to increase academic responsibilities.
-morning movement leads kids to be more ready to start the day.
-use brain breaks to get students to refocus .
-Brain breaks help students create a better learning situation.
-Easily incorporate health related into the lessons.
-The counselor can help students to find out who they are.
-Zones of regulation helps connect felling with the cognitive and behavior parts.
-Think about the choices that they make.
-Teachers that are able to stay healthy are able to provide stability in the classroom.
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- students are encouraged to be more physically active
- students are able to better focus and have better self-esteem
- social/emotional well-being leads to better academic performance
- assessment acknowledges whole child: more than academics (specifically reading and math)
- provide students with life-long skills involving physical activity
- staff promote, model, and encourage healthy decision-making
- provide healthy school lunch programs and after school snack options
- physical education includes the teaching of healthy lifestyle skills, more than just physical activity
- daily physical education improves cognitive skills, attendance, and attitudes towards schools
- reduces sedentary settings where students lose attention
- optimizes the use of brain breaks that helps students refocus
- educates students about illness prevention, social skills, mental health, etc.
- helps students identify social and emotional needs and self-regulate, building connections between cognition and behavior
- improves decision making and self-management
- raises attendance and consequently impacts achievement and drop out rates
- supports staff health needs (ex. stress) that improves morale and enables them to better meet the needs of their students
- provides community events involving families with teachers and students

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-Students self regulating their health through healthy food and exercise choices.
- Builds self image and esteem.
-Kids come to teachers with excess baggage. Those issues needs to be comforted and fixed before they can successfully learn in the class. Basic needs come first.
-If children feel loved at home, and promote healthy choices at home, they will succeed in school, scores are higher
-Important to teach kids life long skills they can apply at home and in the community.
-More health issues are rising and are missing school. Habits learned at a young age, move with them as they grow up.
-My plate is visually available in the cafeteria which is a positive influence for students to be more aware of what they are putting on their plate.
-Fun school programs that include healthy options. (snack shack)
-Let students decide and get involved into making the changes in the school
(changing out soda machines). They get excited about it and more willing to be engaged.
-Physical activity is being cut in order to meet teacher standards and curriculum
-Physical education improves many parts of the child that improves their attention and cognitive thinking. Brain breaks are essential to transition and refocus for next activity.
-Teachers can easily integrate physical education in every subject.
-Some children do not know how to identify their feelings. Adults in the school can play many roles to help children feel safe and work through home life issues so they can focus in class. Children bring many home issues to school without knowing it.
-Some schools have free healthcare to help kids stay healthy so they don't miss school.
-Getting staff involved and share healthy recipes and workout together. The school monitors staff health by checking blood pressure, flu shots.
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-understanding of good vitamins and breakfast.
-students understanding proper food choices and the benefits
-children come to school with other baggage than what is inside their backpack
-students health helps their achievement levels and success levels in school and in daily lives
-wellness will last a life time
-need to address life long beneficial choices
-supplying a "snack shack" to help support during the middle of the slumps
-better food choices are now available for school lunches and at snack time
-physical activity is recommended at 60 minutes a day for ages 6-18
-students who are participating in some sort of  physical activity are more likely to be successful through out multiple areas of curriculum and classroom time
-brain breaks can be anything and can be very creative/should be very creative
-we can easily integrate a variety of health topics into content
-school counselors can be a huge help when helping kids with behavior and developmental issues
-health of students greatly affects the students and the learning environments of kids
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*Students notice the difference, right nutrition  makes in their learning experience.
*Children that are socially and emotionally healthy score better in school. *Teachers that model the right choices impacts their classroom environment. Important to address all student needs, not just academic needs.
*Basic needs need to be met before students can learn.
*Health kids learn and score better.
*Programs that address healthy kids have been reduced and it's important to focus on the needs of students.
*Happy, health kids come to the classroom ready to learn; as a teacher we need to help them achieve life long skills.
*Lessons learned in early childhood carry over into adult life and follow students through school experience.
*Schools need to be more aware of healthier options for student lunches.
*Students are taking advantage of healthier options in the lunch line.
*"Snack Shack" helps support healthy snack options.
*Allow students to have some say in what healthy options they can have. Get them involved with their health.
*Important to allow movement in classrooms and add activity throughout the day.
*Morning Movement
*Students who participate in physical activity have positive relationships with cognitive, social and emotional skills.
*Movement helps students focus and learn.
* Brain breaks are an important tool to allow  students to relax their brain and include movement in the day.
*Brain breaks, have shown lower number of office referrals.
*Students can successfully adopt positive behaviors in order to make them healthier.
*Integrate physical education into all content
areas.
*Emotional and Social health is very important skill, students need to be taught. self- awareness, self-esteem and how to identify their feelings. Teach students to think about the choices they make.
*Teach students a sense of safety and belonging; which will directly correlate to improved test scores and higher achievement.
*Health has a huge impact on how students learn.
*Teachers need to model healthy behavior.
*School Wellness Policy
*Education of students goes hand and hand with health and wellness
*When students are fit and active they have the ability to achieve more.

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-imporves self image, and encourages fitness and nutrition
-can help raise academic sccores
-positively affects student's attitudes/mood
-addresses the problems from home that come with students
-teaches life skills rather than just math and literature
-have to teach students to take care of their basic needs before they can learn and further their education
-schools need to view health as a way to promote positive educational environments
-reducing counselors and recess were a drive for schools to focus on how they can implement changes to help students
-wellness lasts a lifetime
-teach students that life after school really revolves around nutrition and health
-hungary children have lower grades, are less alert, and unsatisfied
-utalize downtime or passing times as a way to incorporate movement
-sedentary classroom settings lead to a lack of attention, movement keeps kids awake
-brain brakes can help students get more out of a lesson
-brain breaks have lead to a decrease in disciplinary problems
-incorporate health and nutriction mini lessons into PE
-many students don't get the mental help that they need, used to talk about emotional health during health class, but that has been cut out
-zones of regulation connect feelings, thinking and behavior
-scores are raised when students feel safe, accomplished and important in schools
-if the staff isn't healthy , schools can't focus on student health

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Observations:
-Students were relating concepts to real-life impacts: weight loss, nutrition, energy, exercise.
-Students were able to see how their physical activity and health effected their ability to learn.
-Activities were real-life relatable.
-General focus of grades and assessment has been too narrow, only reading and math.
- Children come to school with their whole life/being, not just their academics. It all effects them as a student.
- Basic needs and health need to be supported and assessed first before true learning can happen.
-A child's social, physical, and emotional well-being should not take back-seat to academics.
-a well-rounded child whose needs are met are more ready to learn, and score better/more effective in the classroom.
-Health is part of a flourishing academic environment.
-recently, health ed., recess, and counselling services have been reduced.
-Higher poverty reduces availability of mental health services, nutrition, physical ed., absenteeism
-CDC saw that obesity is a issue for children, health issues are rising, so it has brought the importance of health ed for kids.
-the habits carry into adulthood.
-Coordinated School Health
includes: staff health for modelling, encouraging healthy choices
-IDEA: snack shack. math and commerce learning. Healthy nutrition choices.
-Physical education is a content area where we teach the knowledge, skills, behavior, and attitudes to keep them healthy for a lifetime.
-Daily activity of 60+minutes
-fewer than 10% of schools have daily PE
-Sedentary settings are not ideal for learning.
-Intermittent or continuous movement keeps students engaged and learning.
-Brain breaks, especially for younger grades, every 20 minutes or so. Can be seasonal or themed.
-Brain breaks can lower discipline issues.
- Try to keep content and information hands-on. Can be easily integrated into any content area.
-66% of students with mental health needs are not getting services.
-Most health education has been cut, so counselors have had to take on the social-emotional education piece.
-School-based health clinic can reduce the number of absent days.
-If staff aren't healthy, it is difficult to address the needs of students.
-Any school who gets the national lunch assistance MUST have a wellness program.

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-Knowing about our health and proper nutrition is the first step.
-Being active and healthy makes our brain healthy
-Scores increase with good social and emotional health
-Student success is more than academics
-Basic needs come before academics because they will not be able to learn until this is met
-"Wellness will last a lifetime"
-Promote student thinking about what being healthy looks like outside of school and in their life
-hunger effects grades, attendance, and attention
-offer more healthy lunch options
-"snack shack" offers healthy snacks during the day
-allow students to be part of making the decisions about what they want after they have been educated on the benefits of healthy foods and staying healthy
-Be intentional about daily physical activity
-Be creative with how you implement movement
-Students enjoy brain breaks
-Movement and physical activities can help with behavioral issues
-It is completely possible to incorporate movement into all areas
-A lot of students and their families are limited in their ability to fully take care of themselves (transportation, finances, language)
-Give students applicable things to use or do at home
-Education and health go hand in hand
-advocate for a health wellness program in your school

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- emotional and physical health
- healthy lunch choices
- more to school then math, and other subjects
-  Basic needs first to learn properly
- don't ignore other needs
- cuts can cause needs to lack
- how to be healthy (promote)
- Correct Nutrition
- movement helps to learn
- get up more (brain breaks)
- everyone has a home life of some kind but could be very stressful subject
- counseling and mental health plays a huge role
- teacher stability helps encourage students
- staff health
- healthy lunch program
- LUKE

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-Teachers are supportive coaches helping students be aware of their health and mental state helping them meet their needs.
-Physical and community activities, are offered to students, to help them feel better and be the very best they can be.
-Teachers are aware of what is going on with students, not just on the surface but see beyond that and help them address those issues.
-Teachers are aware of what it takes for students to be effective: be healthy, be happy.
-life long skills are taught, not just academics to make a positive influence on the long run.
-coordinated school health promote staff that are aware of students needs.
-Students are encouraged and taught to pick healthy choices by providing snacks and modeling.
-staff got involved and students decided what they needed to be healthy. Students are included in the conversation of what it takes to be healthy.
-Physical activity is encourage through out the day.
-Brain breaks are incorporated to lessons. Students come back ready to learn, reducing behaviors.
-Health lesson are incorporated in content areas. They learn to make healthy choices, life skills, self-awareness, identify feelings, and learn to self regulate their emotions.
-social-emotional skills are link to learning.
-health clinics, help with resources to keep the children in school.
-wellness is promoted in staff. healthy teachers can help students be healthy and successful.
-Student's health influence their learning.

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Supports students by promoting self-advocacy through activity, nutrition and making healthy choices. The focus is not just on academic skills, but considers the whole child: mental, physical, social, emotional: "Healthy kids score better" and "Wellness lasts a lifetime." This program looks at what will affect a child's health during their entire lifetime. Providing healthy food options in the cafeteria that are based off of MyPlate guidelines. Students should have at least 60 min of exercise every day. When students sit still for too long, they are not engaged and processing information well. Brain breaks gets kids moving and helps them refocus. Students are given hands-on experiences in learning. They also learn about handling their emotions, their relationships and friendships, their self-identity. Students are supported with counseling and and also health services, such as wellness checks and medical testing.