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Featured Resources and Research – Each month Action for Healthy Kids features resources and research from our partners and others that support our mission. Check out this month’s features!

Learning Opportunities

Call to Leadership: Elevating School Wellness to a Higher Priority
Action for Healthy Kids Webcast
Monday, December 8th
3:00pm ET/2:00pm CT/1:00pm MT/12:00pm PT
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Register here for this free session

Action for Healthy Kids invites you to join a live national web cast, Call to Leadership: Elevating School Wellness to a Higher Priority, on Monday, December 8, 2008. A panel of experts will lead a candid discussion about how to address gaps in school wellness, as recently highlighted in Action for Healthy Kids' report, Progress or Promises? What's Working For and Against Healthy Schools.

Confirmed panelists include:

• Dr. David Satcher, MD, PhD, 16th U.S. Surgeon General; Founding Chair, Action for Healthy Kids; Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine
• Dr. Gene Wilhoit, Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
• Honorable Bob Holden, Former Governor, State of Missouri
• Katie Wilson, SNS, President, School Nutrition Association; Food Services Director, Onalaska School District (Onalaska, WI)
• Dr. Jose Salgado, Principal, Mario Umana Middle School Academy (Boston, MA)

This free event is geared towards school administrators and governance teams, health and wellness coordinators, parents, community leaders, and others who are interested in supporting and advancing school wellness. The live session will be recorded and available for those unable to attend.

Registration is required for this session and is of no cost. Click here to register and to find out more.

Latest Reports and News

Action for Healthy Kids Newsletter: November 2008
	Local Wellness Policy Implementation: Strategies and Successes in Michigan A new field report from Michigan Action for Healthy Kids, features the Team's collaboration with the Michigan Department of Education and the Michigan Department of Community Health to facilitate statewide implementation of Local Wellness Policies. Local Wellness Policy Implementation: Strategies and Successes in Michigan highlights a four-pronged strategy to address the challenge of assisting, measuring, and influencing statewide implementation of meaningful Wellness Policies. Download Full Report [color]
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Featured Resources & Research

CDC, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity Web Course
The Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity Web course trains public health professionals in the basics of social marketing with an emphasis on implementing nutrition and physical activity social marketing programs. The course includes the following seven modules: Social Marketing Basics, Problem Description, Formative Research, Strategy Development, Intervention Design, Evaluation, and Implementation. Students have a chance to interact with and provide advice to a fictional program planner who is struggling with common challenges. The course includes tips for working with limited resources, worksheets, a glossary, and links to multiple resources.

HHS Announces Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
The comprehensive set of recommendations for people of all ages and physical conditions were released October 7th, 2008. The guidelines are designed so people can easily fit physical activity into their daily plan and incorporate activities they enjoy.

For more information, click here.

Healthy Learning News
American Association of School Administrators
This Fall 2008 issue features two school districts in Texas that are both serving populations with populations that are at-risk for childhood obesity. Both districts have strong programming and leadership in the areas of healthy eating and/or physical activity. This issue is being mailed to every superintendent in the country.

You can view the PDF on the AASA website, by clicking here. You can also visit www.aasa.org/focus and click “Childhood Obesity” to read more about their work on this issue. For a complimentary hard copy, please contact Joya Coffman, AASA project coordinator at jcoffman@aasa.org.

A national snapshot of local school wellness policies.
Moag-Stahlberg A, Howley N, Luscri L.
Action for Healthy Kids recently published a study in the October issue of the Journal of School Health around local school wellness policies. The purpose of this study was to assess district policy goals and compare them to the federal mandate and benchmarks of best practices. While some progress has been made, this study’s findings indicate schools will need assistance to meet each of the mandates provided by the federal mandate. Click here to learn more.

Time out: Is recess in danger?
The National School Board Association’s Center for Public Education
The Center for Public Education reviewed several data sources to find out if recess is becoming a relic. Click here to read about the analysis that was conducted: