How WELL are WE doing with WELLNESS

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How WELL are WE doing with WELLNESS?

• Planning to evaluate our schools
  wellness activities

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WELCOME and INTRODUCTIONS

• Purpose is to brainstorm and plan the most
  effective ways to evaluate some of our school
  wellness activities
• Every member of this group has a critical role to
  play in the process
• Brief introductions of team

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GROUND RULES

• Open brainstorming
• All ideas are welcome
• Let no good idea go unheard
• Quantity not quality
• Record all ideas
• Have fun
• Stick to positives
• Look to future

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New Wellness World

• School wellness policies are just in their
  infancy.
• No one is precisely sure how to measure success
  yet.
• Many new strategies/tools will develop to
  meet needs.

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Update on OUR Wellness Policy

• Federal requirements
• Local policy
• Assessments

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Role of Evaluation

• The key is using evaluation

to improve
Our schools approach to health and wellness for
students and staff.
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Using evaluation for improvement
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EXAMPLE Improving Classroom Rewards

• School wellness policy is originally written as
• Encourage non-food rewards in the classroom.
• Baseline survey 90 of teachers use food rewards
  regularly
• Activity Alternatives to Food as a Reward
  distributed
• Evaluation 75 of teachers still use food
  rewards at times
• Activity Staff in-service training on Effective
  Rewards for Optimal Performance with Registered
  Dietitian (RD) from Health Department and
  experienced classroom teacher
• Evaluation Most teachers have discontinued the
  use of food to reward performance in their
  classrooms
• School wellness team recommends strengthening the
  school wellness policy to read
• Only non-food rewards may be used in classrooms.

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Measurements of success for busy schools

• Level 1
• Pre-assessment
• Level 2
• OUR MAIN TASK
• Ongoing evaluation
• Level 3
• Research and replication

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EVALUATION

• Easy
• Recognizing how busy we already are
• Efficient
• Using existing data when possible
• Effective
• Working to improve wellness activities

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Current Wellness Activities

• What do we do NOW to enhance the
  nutrition and fitness opportunities for students
  and staff at school?

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Possible Wellness Activities

• What could we do IN THE
  FUTURE to enhance the
  nutrition and fitness opportunities for students
  and staff at school?

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Not every activity can be evaluated immediately

• WHICH ACTIVITIES do we choose to
  evaluate?
• Important for students and staff?
• Possible to measure with relative ease?
• In need of improvement or resources?
• Key component of our wellness program?

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BRAINSTORM

• Activity
• Goal
• Output
• SHORT-Term Outcome (6-9 months)
• MEDIUM-Term Outcome (1-2 years)
• LONG-Term Outcome (3 years)
• Impact

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Thinking outside boxes

• Be realistic
• Choosing the simplest approach to get the data we
  need.
• Be flexible
• Adapting our approach as we move through the
  process.
• Be creative
• Getting help from not-the-usual places and
  people.
• Be smart
• Maximizing our use of existing data and
  information.

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NEXT STEPS

• What do we need?
• Background information?
• Survey or questionnaire?
• Online data collection? Who is going to find it?
• Assignments?

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THANK YOU

• Next meeting
• DATE?
• TIME?