Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco (PANT) |
Physical Activity
Washington is seeking to increase the percentage of schools
that teach about all of the following in a required course:
- Physical, psychological, or social benefits of physical activity.
- Health-related fitness (i.e., cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition).
- Phases of a workout (i.e., warm-up, workout, cool down).
- How much physical activity is enough (i.e., determining frequency, intensity, time, and type of physical activity).
- Developing an individualized physical activity plan.
- Monitoring progress toward reaching goals in an individualized physical activity plan.
- Overcoming barriers to physical activity.
- Decreasing sedentary activities such as television viewing.
- Opportunities for physical activity in the community.
- Preventing injury during physical activity.
- Weather-related safety (e.g., avoiding heat stroke, hypothermia, and sunburn while physically active).
- Dangers of using performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids.
Activities
- Provide four regional professional development sessions and three state conference sessions on the implementation of physical education standards, appropriate practices, and assessments.
- Disseminate critical information to educational service district superintendents, school district superintendents, school principals, and curriculum, instruction, and assessment administrators in response to Washington State law RCW 28A.230.095 on Classroom-Based Assessments to assure that students have an opportunity to learn the essential academic learning requirements in health and fitness.
- Develop partnerships to provide a one free pre-conference day for teachers at three statewide health and fitness conferences.
- Develop a series of video clips on “best practice” lessons to ensure that health and fitness teachers receive support in curriculum development, instructional practices, and assessment of student learning.
Nutrition
Washington is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that do not sell the following foods and beverages anywhere at school outside the school food service program:
- Baked goods that are not low in fat (e.g., cookies, crackers, cakes, pastries).
- Salty snacks that are not low in fat (e.g., regular potato chips).
- Candy (i.e., chocolate or non-chocolate candy).
- Soda pop or fruit drinks that are not 100% juice.
Activities
- Provide technical assistance to teachers and administrators on Washington State law, RCW 28A.210.365 Food choice, physical activity, childhood fitness—minimum standards—District waiver or exemption and connected them to resources across disciplines.
- Provided professional development on the Shop, Eat, Move! classroom-based assessment for middle school health and fitness teachers.
- Collaborate with the Washington Dairy Council to develop an electronic nutrition newsletter for health and fitness teachers, parents, students, administrators, staff, and/or for posting on classroom, building, and district Web sites.
Tobacco
Washington is seeking to increase the percentage of schools
in which the lead health education teacher received professional development on tobacco-use
prevention education during the past 2 years.
Activities
- Develop a partnership with Washington Department of Health's Tobacco Prevention Education Specialists and Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction's Health and Fitness Cadre to increase regional professional development capacity.
- Provide professional development to four Educational Service Districts on health and fitness standards specific to tobacco-use prevention.
- Provide professional development on the Tobacco Times classroom-based assessment to middle school health and fitness teachers.
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