TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE HANDOUT

You are a parent who is concerned about the food that is being offered at your child’s school. You recently read online about a tool called the School Health Index. You need to pitch the idea to the school principal, but first you need to learn more about it. Use your copy of the SHI to help answer these questions.

1. What are the five health topics that the SHI currently addresses?

2.  List the eight different modules of the SHI.

3.  These modules are the eight components of what model?

4.  What do each of the following letters stand for?
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5. Place the following SHI activities in the order they should be completed, from first to last (1 to 5):
____ Create School Health Improvement Plan by identifying specific steps to implement recommended actions.
____ Carefully read through discussion questions and respond on Module Scorecards.
____ Complete the Overall Scorecard.
___   Put together a school health team.
____ Reassess annually.

True or False
____ The SHI should be completed by a school health team, consisting of teachers, administrators, parents, students, community members, and any other interested parties. 
____ The SHI is only available in a print version.
____ The SHI is a research tool to compare schools against each other.
____ The SHI includes cross-cutting questions for issues that apply to all five health topics.
____ The SHI process is complete once schools answer all the self-assessment questions in the modules.