Creating a Health Promoting SchoolAssignments
Listed below are your assignments for this course. If you have any questions about how to complete an assignment, please email Tracy at tracyw@rmc.org.
An archive of previous assignments can be found here.
Assignment #5 Using Best Practices
Due by March 31st, 2010
20 points
For this assignment, work with your Coordinated School Health team to develop one School Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) based on the results of your SHI. Refer to Phase 2 of the Roadmap for step-by-step guidance.
Working with CSH team members, do the following:
- Write a SMART objective,
- Determine measures of accomplishment for the objective,
- Identify school-level outcomes for the objective,
- Identify student-level outcomes for the objective, and
- Create action steps using best practice research (see assignment #4) and include timelines.
Turn in a completed School Health Improvement Plan using a template provided. PLEASE NOTE: For this course, you only need to submit to me your SHIP #1 by this due date. However for the grant requirements, you must complete TWO SHIPs and submit BOTH to your district/regional coordinator.
To receive credit for this assignment:
- Complete the approved SHIP template for SHIP #1 only, and email it to Tracy. You must also submit your SHIP to your district/regional coordinator.
Assignment #6 Getting to Know District Policies that Support CSH
Due by March 31st, 2010
10 points
This assignment is designed to build awareness of your district's policies that support the CSH program and the work you propose in your School Health Improvement Plan (SHIP). Your CSH team may intersect with district-level policy at several points throughout the life of the program. For example, your team may:
- take a lead role in implementing CSH-related policies at the building
level; and/or
- implement policy changes such as recess before lunch, healthy vending, healthy parties, etc. at your building.
For this assignment, work with your CSH team and other building- and district-level personnel to find out what current policies support CSH. Create some sort of awareness "presentation" to share this information with other building-level staff and stakeholders (parents, community members, students, other staff within the district). This presentation can be anything you'd like, such as a flyer that gets distributed in staff mailboxes and at PTA/PTO meetings, or a PowerPoint presentation delivered to staff.
To receive credit for this assignment your must:
- Email Tracy a copy of your presentation and explain to whom and how the information was distributed.
An important note to all independent study participants:
In an effort to help with your schedules, while still fulfilling the requirements for graduate credit, I have combined assignments 7 & 8, altered the content, and moved the due date to the end of April. Also, assignment #9 will be deleted and your final assignment – writing a success story using the approved template – will be worth 15 points rather than 5, as stated in the original Course Summary. This final assignment will be due by May 31, 2010. Hopefully this will help!
Assignment #s 7 AND 8 (combined)
Coordinated School Health Team Meeting Discussions: District-level
Policies AND Best Practice Implementation Progress Report
Due by April 30th, 2010
15 points
During the completion of assignment #6, you became aware of district-level policies that support CSH and where your work may intersect with such policies.
Assignment #7 calls for you to lead a discussion with the rest of your CSH team regarding the implications (if any) for implementation of those policies at the school level. For example, if there is a district level policy around healthy foods at school but your school site is not fully implementing that policy, you may choose to work on that policy’s implementation at the building level within your SHIP.
Assignment #8 calls for you to lead a discussion with the rest of your CSH team on how best practices are being utilized to implement your SHIP. By this time, your SHIP has been submitted. However, many of you will not be working on the implementation of that SHIP this year. That is fine.
For this assignment, please complete the “Team Discussions and April Progress Report” worksheet. This is the only document you need to complete to receive credit for these two assignments.
As always, if you have any questions about an assignment, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
To receive credit for this assignment your must:
- Download and complete the attached worksheet (this one worksheet covers BOTH assignments 7 & 8). Email the worksheet to Tracy (tracyw@rmc.org) by April 30th, 2010.
