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Training Tools for Healthy Schools e-Learning Series

School Health Index
A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide

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Planning for Improvement Activity

You are a physical education teacher at Jefferson Middle School and serve on the School Health Team. As the Module Coordinator for Module 7, Health Promotion for Staff, your team has completed a self-assessment, and teams for the other modules have also completed their assessments.

Now, the overall School Health Team is meeting to proceed with the Planning for Improvement process, beginning with the Overall Score Card to determine which module needs the most improvement.

Overall Score Card

  1. Which module should the School Health Team focus on first? Refer to the completed Overall Score Card in "Go Further" to help you.

School Health Improvement Plan

  1. Given that the School Health Team wants to focus on Jefferson Middle School's health policies and environment first, what actions can the school commit to implementing in the short term that are not too expensive, labor-intensive, or complex to address?
  1. Select the correct tasks that need to be taken to implement the selected action.

Congratulations! You have successfully developed recommendations to improve Jefferson Middle School's policy on nutrition standards for competitive foods. You will follow the same process to develop a prioritized list of actions in other areas to recommend for implementation. Upon approval of the School Health Improvement Plan, Jefferson Middle School can begin to implement the recommendations and monitor progress.

Go
Further

Questions

Planning for Improvement Scenario

Overall Score Card

Sample School Health Improvement Plan


Resources

SHI Online Tool

SHI for Elementary Schools [PDF - 2.5MB]

SHI for Middle and High Schools [PDF - 1.7MB]

Glossary

Full Course Content [PDF - 750KB]

Training Tools for Healthy Schools