Lanier Middle School students and staff have taken several innovative concepts created at the Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Summit, and turned them into reality. DeMeco Ryans, a linebacker with the Houston Texans, recently visited the school to applaud all the ways the schools is promoting health and wellness.

Cindy Roesler, chair of Lanier's P.E. Department and one of the 70 HKHS "Health Coaches", hosted the celebration event. Thanks to Ms. Roesler's leadership, her school is participating in "Fuel Up to Play 60", the "Step it Up" walking challenge and "Change the Game", a student-created communications campaign. Lanier students also are engaged in making the school a healthier place, recently helping to create a new supplemental P.E. curriculum.

Click here to view highlights of DeMeco's visit to Lanier.