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The California Healthy Kids Resource Center

Practical and Effective: High Quality Resources for Nutrition Instruction, Assessment, and Impact Evaluation. The California Healthy Kids Resource Center. www.californiahealthykids.org.

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The California Healthy Kids Resource Center

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  1. Practical and Effective: High Quality Resources for Nutrition Instruction, Assessment, and Impact Evaluation

  2. The California Healthy Kids Resource Center www.californiahealthykids.org

  3. Practical and Effective: High Quality Resources for NutritionInstruction,Assessment, and Impact EvaluationIntroducing the Panel Moderator: Deborah Wood, California Healthy Kids Resource Center Panelists: • Jackie Russum, California Healthy Kids Resource Center • Chris Boynton, Hayward Unified School District • Robin Sinks, Long Beach Unified School District • Dorothy Tule, Santa Clara Department of Public Health

  4. Nutrition Network LIAs - Assessment of PreK through Grade 12 Nutrition Instructional Material Use, Development, and Needs • Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute - Nancy Brown, Ph.D. • Target sample - 81 2001-02 LIAs • 62 returned (76.5%) • Representing each of the 12 regions

  5. Latino 47% Caucasian 16% Asian American 15% African American 10% Native American 25% Other 5% Low-Income 78% English L.L. 34% Special Needs 14% Immigrant 7% Migrant 18% Pregnant Teens 5% Demographics

  6. Nutrition Learning Objectives - 21 - 27% Percent of students PreK 59% K - 3 76% 4 - 6 74% 6 - 8 62% 9 -12 53% Teams Selected and Developed Nutrition Education Materials Classes Taught by 19 - 43% Classroom Teacher 14 - 16% Dietician 4 - 17% Health Teacher 5 - 12% School Food Service 2 - 13% P.E. Teacher PreK - 12th Grade Instruction

  7. Material Selection and Use: 76% Used Criteria 78% Nutrition Network Guidelines 42% Nutrition Competencies 40% Health Framework 15% National Standards 68 different nutrition instructional materials Top three published materials used for instruction - 5 a Day Power Play, Healthy Choices, Healthy Me!, JumpStart Teens >50% used materials for other grade levels than designed 52% were satisfied with materials PreK - 12th Grade Instruction

  8. Instructional Materials Developed by Network LIAs • 25 Materials were developed and submitted by LIAs • Reasons for development: - Not topic specific - Did not include appropriate teaching methods - Not engaging • 72% Developed by Teams • 76% Used criteria for development • 92% Satisfied

  9. Instructional: 76% Parent and home linked lessons 74% Lessons integrating nutrition education with other subjects 74% Materials to assess student learning Technical Assistance and Training: 57% Integrating nutrition education with other subjects 43% Linking to standards 43% Creating cafeteria- linked lessons Materials and Resources Needed

  10. Assessment 77% Evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition instruction 83% Knowledge 73% Behavior 67% Attitude 39% Skill Evaluation of Nutrition Instruction

  11. Participation in Standardized Health-Related Surveys • 42% Participate in health-related surveys • 30% Participate in the CHKS • 17% FitnessGram

  12. Advisory Committee 9 Recommendations Training on integration of nutrition education and links to standards Training on assessing student skill acquisition Create processes to develop and modify materials to meet LIAs’ needs based on criteria Strategies to evaluate program impact Recommendations

  13. Chris Boynton Hayward Unified School District Integration of Nutrition Education with Other Subjects

  14. Robin Sinks Long Beach Unified School District Assessment of Student Learning

  15. Dorothy Tule Santa Clara Public Health Department Impact Evaluation

  16. Questions?

  17. Thank you! California Healthy Kids Resource Center 313 W. Winton Ave., Room 176 Hayward, CA 94544 510-670-4583 www.californiahealthykids.org

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