Students Voice New Ideas for Creating Healthier Schools
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Student leaders from Chavez High School voice their opinions
about campaign slogans at the recent HISD Teen Health Summit. |
To get kids to pay attention to health promotional messages,
a subtle approach works best, using interesting factoids and
humor – definitely not focusing on the do's and don'ts.
That's just one of many pieces of advice provided by HISD students
working as part of HKHS to develop an upcoming district-wide
communications campaign to promote health and wellness. Read
more.
HKHS "Health Coaches" Step Up
 "This is a way of giving kids a sense of ownership, a
place to stay off the street. It saved me, and it saved a whole
bunch of us. It can become so much bigger than just a garden."
Become an HKHS Health Coach and you'll help design and lead
activities to create health-promoting schools. Already dozens
of volunteers have signed up, including P.E./health teachers,
school nutrition and health professionals, teachers, school
administrators and parents Volunteers will receive tools and
training as well as incentives from local Houston businesses
and organizations. Our goal is to have a Health Coach in as
many HISD schools as possible. Learn
more.
HKHS Planner Energizes Wellness Activities in HISD Schools
Tapping the expertise and contributions of numerous members
of HISD and the broader community, the just-released Healthy
Kids, Healthy Schools Planner offers a year's worth of easy-to-implement
activities to help make wellness a way of life at HISD schools.
A companion resource, Making
Wellness Happen: A Guide for School Leaders, also produced
by HKHS, translates the district's wellness policy into steps
that school leaders can take to achieve it.
Sponsor Spotlight
More than 80 organizations are involved in the HKHS initiative,
providing guidance and valuable expertise. Several partners
have recently gone a step further providing incentives for
HKHS Health Coaches and student leaders. Become
a sponsor. Thanks to the following
sponsors for their support:
Did You Know . . .
More than anything else, eating breakfast and being
physically active are what HISD students equate with a healthy day – and are the things they do to feel good about themselves.
Hear
what HISD students think about being healthy.
 Fewer than one in three Houston students meets recommended
levels of physical activity (at least 60 minutes of activity
5 days a week). How healthy are Houston students? Learn
more.
Texas is the hungriest state in the country for children,
and it also ranks 20th among states in prevalence of overweight
children. Learn more.
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