What's new

• Position Statement from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education: Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs - May 2008.

Resources

• Walk to school - The California Center for Physical Activity operates California's walk to school headquarters, which provides all the materials, ideas and technical assistance needed to start or maintain a walk to school program in your neighborhood.
• The New PE - Collaborative games, zip lining, and classroom aikido are part of a new physical education movement that makes kids smarter. 10 minute video from Edutopia, May 2008.
• Message to the board - PALS provides an opportunity for governing boards to look at available physical activity options for children.
• 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. 
• PE and PA academic performance - Children who are physically active and fit tend to perform better in the classroom. Research Brief: Active Living Research, fall 2007.
• Failing fitness: Physical activity and physical education - Highlights findings from a study examining the current state of physical activity and physical education in a statewide sample of 77 California schools. The California Endowment, September 2007.
• 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.
• Healthy behaviors for children and families: Developing exemplary practices – A guide to strengthen nutrition, physical activity and food security for children in afterschool programs. Center for Collaborative Solutions, September, 2007. 
• Development of physical activity policy - A Project LEAN guide to development of a physical activity policy.
• Policy Brief: Is Physical Activity by Itself the Answer (4 MB) - A look at balancing energy in and energy out. Public Health Institute, March 2009. 

Related links

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