Successful Students Through Healthy Food and Fitness Policies

Learn how you can have an impact on the health, wellness and success of all students. CSBA and its partners have created this dynamic series of videos and resources to inform and educate you about opportunities for improving and increasing physical activity.

Introduction Video
This short video introduces the four video segments offered below.

• How to Establish a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program for Your District (6/10)
• PA/PE Policy Brief: A survey of district/county office of education perceptions and practices (updated 4/10)

Sample Policies/Administrative Regulations

• BP 6142.7: Physical Education and Activity
• AR6142.7: Physical Education and Activity

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Learn how to strengthen physical education by ensuring students engage in MVPA (moderate to vigorous physical activity).

• Fact Sheet: Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity in Physical Education to Improve Health and Academic Outcomes (11/09)

Physical Activity During the School Day Video
Learn how to implement low-cost strategies to improve the quantity and quality of student physical activity during the school day through recess, lunchtime, and classroom activities.

• Fact Sheet: Active Bodies, Active Minds – Physical Activity and Academic Achievement (2/10)
• Fact Sheet: Maximizing Opportunities for Physical Activity during the School Day (11/09)

Safe Routes to School Video
Create safe routes to school programs and policies that increase physical activity opportunities before and after school.

• Policy Brief: Safe Routes to School: Program and policy strategies (9/09)

Sample Policies/Administrative Regulations

• BP 5142.2: Safe Routes to School Program
• AR 5142.2: Safe Routes to School Program

Joint Use of School Facilities Video
Establishing joint use agreements is a way for school districts, cities, non-governmental and nonprofit organizations to work together to increase physical activity for students and their communities by sharing school and community facilities.

• Policy Brief: Maximizing Opportunities for Physical Activity through Joint Use of Facilities (2/10)
• Joint Use of School Facilities Fact Sheet (8/10)

Sample Policies/Administrative Regulations

• BP 1330.1: Joint Use Agreements

* The videos were produced in partnership with the California School Boards Association, California Project LEAN, California Active Communities, and The California Endowment.

Resources

• Community-Based After School Programs and Youth Physical Fitness - The Youth Data Archive, along with Redwood City partners and funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Salud America! initiative, undertook an analysis of the extent to which participation in community-run after school programs is associated with youth physical fitness outcomes.
• Physical Activity for Local Students (PALS) introduction - Addresses the following items: What is PALS; Why is the PALS process important; What are the outcomes and benefits of PALS; And what can individuals do to help this process.
• PALS guide - Provides schools with a blueprint for community-school collaboration. 
• Physical education and California schools - CSBA Policy Brief, October 2007. Provides an overview of implications of inactivity, physical education time requirements, FITNESSGRAM requirements, content standards and the role of the board in efforts to positively impact the health of California’s youth.
• Development of physical activity policy - A worksheet from the Student Wellness: A Healthy Food and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide, a joint CSBA and California Project LEAN guide to provide districts or school board members with tools and sample policies to support a healthy school environment.

Related links

• California Project LEAN
• California Healthy Kids Resource Center
• California Center for Public Health Advocacy