Student Wellness Resource List

This resource list includes all CSBA documents created to support school governance teams in addressing student wellness. Click here for a printable PDF version.

Publications

• Safe Schools: Strategies for Governing Boards to Ensure Student Success (11/11)
• Monitoring for Success: Integrating Oral Health into School Health Programs and Policies (3/10)
• Monitoring for Success: Student Wellness Policy Implementation Monitoring Guide and Report, 2008
• Building Healthy Communities: A School Leader’s Guide to Collaboration and Community Engagement (14.7 MB) 
• Student Wellness: A Healthy Food and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide (Updated April 2006)
• Monitoring for Success: Student Wellness Policy Implementation Monitoring Guide and Report, 2008. This publication is available at no cost by downloading a PDF of the Guide here and the Report here. You may purchase the printed publication here. 
• Student Wellness: A Healthy Food and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide (Updated April 2006). This publication is available at no cost by downloading a PDF here. You may purchase the printed publication here.

Policy Briefs and Fact Sheets

• Expanding School Breakfast Programs to Improve Student Learning (7/11)
• Improving Student Achievement by Addressing Chronic Absence (11/10)
• Community Schools: Partnerships supporting students, families and communities (10/10)
• Joint Use of School Facilities Fact Sheet (8/10)
• Cyberbullying in Schools: Policy Considerations for Boards (7/10)
• Providing Access to Nutritious Meals During Summer (6/10)
• Providing a Safe, Nondiscriminatory School Environment for All Students (4/10)
• PA/PE Research Brief: A survey of district/county office of education perceptions and practices (updated 4/10)
• Active Bodies, Active Minds: Physical Activity and Academic Achievement (2/10)
• Maximizing Opportunities for Physical Activity through Joint Use of Facilities (2/10)
• Green Schools: An Overview of Key Policy Issues, November 2009
• Maximizing Opportunities for Physical Activity during the School Day  (11/09)
• Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity in Physical Education to Improve Health and Academic Outcomes (11/09)
  
• Safe Routes to School: Policy and program strategies, August 2009 
• H1N1 Influenza Swine Flu (4/09)  
• Indoor Air Quality Resources:  EPA’s Tools for Schools, March 2009 
• Expanding Access to School Health Services: Policy considerations for governing boards, November 2008 
• Promoting Oral Health for California’s Students: New roles, new opportunities for schools, November 2008 
• Indoor Air Quality: Governing board actions for creating healthy school environments, July 2008 
• Asthma Management in the Schools, March 2008 
• Educating Foster Youth: Best practices and board considerations, March 2008 
• Williams Settlement and the Emergency Repair Program, January 2008 
• Rights of Students with Diabetes under IDEA and Section 504, November 2007 
• Mental Health Services Act — Proposition 63: Collaborative opportunity to address mental health, October 2007 
• Nutrition Standards for Schools: Implications for student wellness, October 2007 
• Food Safety Requirements, October 2007 
• Physical Education and California Schools, October 2007 
• Pandemic Influenza, September 2007 
• School-Based Marketing of Food & Beverages: Policy implications for school boards, March 2006 
• Sun Safety in Schools, July 2006 
• Steroids and Students: What boards need to know, July 2005 

Research

• Physical Activity and Physical Education in California Schools: A survey of district/county office of education perceptions and practices, September 2009  
• Providing School Health Services: Perceptions, challenges and needs of school district teams, June 2008
  •  Summary Report 
  • Research Brief 
• School Wellness Policy Development, Implementation, and Evaluation, May 2008
  •  Report 
  • Research Implications for School Board Members 
  • Research Implications for State Public Health Nutrition Directors and School Wellness Advocates 
  • Research Implications for State School Board Association Leaders 

Articles

• How to Establish a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program for Your District (6/10)
• Lifesavers: Effective strategies pool resources to keep kids at risk of dropping out from sinking, (California Schools Magazine, Fall 2009) 
• Let’s Clear the Air: Indoor air quality affects students and staff (California Schools Magazine, Spring 2009)  
• Condition Critical: Anemic funding forces educators to get creative to address student health needs (California Schools Magazine, Fall 2008) 
• Piecing Together the Student Wellness Puzzle:  CSBA support for school leadership (Summer, 2008) 
• A Growing Trend: School gardens plant the seeds of greater understanding (California Schools Magazine, Summer 2008)  
• Going Green: Environmentally friendly schools pay off (California Schools Magazine, Spring 2008)  
• Cafeteria Plans: Nutrition standards put healthy menus on the agenda (California Schools Magazine, Summer 2007)  

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