The District promotes healthy students by supporting wellness, good nutrition and regular physical activity as a part of the total learning environment. The District supports a healthy environment where students learn and participate in positive dietary and lifestyle practices. By facilitating learning through the support and promotion of good nutrition and physical activity, schools contribute to the basic health status of students. Improved health optimizes student performance potential.
The District provides a comprehensive learning environment for developing and practicing lifelong wellness behaviors. The entire school environment, not just the classroom, shall be aligned with healthy District goals to positively influence a student’s understanding, beliefs and habits as they relate to good nutrition and regular physical activity.
Wellness Goals
The district has the following goals that will encourage wellness in students and staff:
1. Encouraging physical activity, as outlined in the Student Wellness Plan – Physical Activity policy.
2. Providing nutrition education and promotion, as outlined in the Student Wellness Plan – Nutritional Guidelines policy .
3. Establishing other school-based activities that are designed to promote student and staff wellness, as outlined in the Student Wellness Plan – Other Activities to Promote Wellness policy.
Plan for Measuring Implementation of the Wellness Plan and Nutrition Guidelines
A. Wellness Policy Committee.
1. The District will establish a local wellness policy committee that may be comprised of any of the following: representatives of the Board; representatives of the District, including administrators; representatives of the public; parents; students; representatives of the school food authority; and nutrition/wellness experts, including teachers of physical education and/or school health professionals.
2. The wellness policy committee will implement, monitor, evaluate/ measure and update the wellness policy. This committee will report at least once every 3 years to the Board and to the general public regarding these efforts.
B. Implementation
1. The District, through the committee and/or the designated official, will inform and update the public, including parents, students and the general community, about the content and implementation of the District’s wellness policy.
2. Each school and the district as a whole will periodically measure and prepare reports regarding implementation of the district’s wellness policy. The report shall describe how the school and/or district are striving to implement the goals outlined in the policy.
C. Monitoring.
1. The Superintendent, the principal at each school, and the committee and/or designee will ensure compliance with established District-wide nutritional and physical activity wellness policies.
2. Additionally, the following actions will occur:
a. Food service staff, at the school or District level, will ensure compliance with the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program as well as serve meals that are appealing and meet, at a minimum, nutrition requirements established by state and federal law.
b. Schools providing access to healthy foods outside the reimbursable meal programs before school, during school and thirty minutes after school shall meet the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA") Smart Snacks in Schools nutrition standards, at a minimum. This includes such items as those sold through a la carte lines, vending machines, student run stores, and fundraising activities;
c. Snacks provided to students during the school day without charge (e.g. class parties) will meet standards set by the district in accordance with the law. The district will provide parents a list of foods and beverages that meet nutrition standards for classroom snack and celebrations; and
d. Schools will only allow marketing and advertising of food and beverages that meet the Smart Snacks in school nutritional standards on campus during the school day.
D. Policy Review
1. To help with the initial development of the District’s wellness policy, each school in the District has conducted a baseline assessment of the school’s existing nutritional and physical activity environments and practices. The results of those school-by-school assessments will be compiled at the District level to identify and prioritize needs.
2. Periodic assessments will be conducted to review implementation and compliance, to assess progress, and to determine areas in need of improvement. As part of that review, the committee and/or the designated official will do the following:
a. Generally consider whether there exists an environment that supports healthy eating and physical activity;
b. Review the nutritional and physical activity policies and practices, at least every three years, to determine the extent to which the district and schools within the District are in compliance with the local wellness policy;
c. Consider the extent to which the District’s local wellness policy compares to the model local wellness policy. The Wellness Committee will allow for parents, students, school food service, physical education teachers, school health professionals, school board, administration and public to participate in the periodic review and update of this policy;
d. Assess the progress the District has made in attaining the goals of its local wellness policy;
e. Provide to the board any recommended updates to the District’s wellness policy.
3. The committee and/or the designated official will make the assessment available to the general public. The Board will revise the wellness policies and develop plans to facilitate their implementation.
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Approved: 7/10/06 Reviewed: 3/13/17; 6/10/19; 8/8/22 Revised: 9/17/12; 5/13/13; 3/13/17; 7/14/25