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Deadline For Submitting School Height And
Weight Data – June 15
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“Sodabriety” Healthy Challenge
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What Is West Nile Virus Disease?
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More Kids To Get Fresh Fruits, Vegetables
During School Day
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Resources
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Funding
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Deadline For Submitting School Height And Weight
Data – June 15 |
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The
Department of Education (DOE), in collaboration
with the South Dakota Department of Health
(DOH), has been collecting heights and weights
of children 5-18 years old since 1998 as an
effort to track childhood obesity in South
Dakota. It serves as a basis to develop state
and local strategies and is a way for
participating schools to quantify the problem of
childhood obesity. Data for the 2007-2008 school
year must be submitted no later than June 15,
2008, for inclusion in analysis.
School staff can save a great amount of time by
entering student heights and weights on the
Infinite Campus system. Other electronic
spreadsheets or hard copies will still be
accepted but Infinite Campus is preferred if
available. School nurses and health and physical
education teachers often are leading the data
collection process. Please share this
information with them and others in the
district.
The following website includes instructions for
using the Infinite Campus:
http://doh.sd.gov/SchoolWeight/.
The web site also includes instructions for
taking accurate measurements and for maintaining
confidentiality.
If you have questions, please contact Kristin at
(605) 734-4551 or
Kristin.Biskeborn@state.sd.us.
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Quote: “Using Infinite Campus saved
me a lot of time since I didn't have
to enter all of the extra
information. All I had to do was
click on a students name and enter
their height & weight. It was
great!”
Theresa Adel
South Park Elementary School, Belle
Fourche SD |
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“Sodabriety” Healthy Challenge |
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Improve your health and have a little fun but
participating in the Sodabriety Healthy
Challenge! This online challenge encourages
decreasing intake of sweetened beverages.
Sweetened beverages are the main source of sugar
in the American diet and can lead to unwanted
weight gain and tooth decay.
The Sodabriety challenge will count water intake
and run May 1-31. South Dakotans can participate
either on teams or as individuals. Sign-up
begins now so get your team together.
Sodabriety participants will receive a Healthy
SD water bottle to help them drink more water--a
healthy, non-sweetened beverage. Be sure to
drink other healthy beverages also. Ten randomly
selected participants will receive a prize at
the end of the challenge.
For more information and to sign-up, go to
www.HealthySD.gov
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What Is West Nile Virus Disease?
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West Nile virus disease is a mosquito-borne
infection that can cause mild flu-like illness
or severe encephalitis. Although chances of a
person getting encephalitis are small, there are
some steps you can take to reduce your risk of
being bitten by mosquitoes.
Go to the following website for West Nile
information as the mosquito season will soon be
here.
http://doh.sd.gov/WestNile/
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More Kids To Get Fresh Fruits, Vegetables During
School Day |
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South Dakota will add 25 sites to
its Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program for the
2008-09 school year. The program currently
serves about 4,000 students in 10 schools on the
Pine Ridge Reservation. With the additional 25
sites, the number of students served will reach
nearly 10,000 at locations statewide.
Participating agencies receive funds to provide
fresh fruits and vegetables to their students
throughout the school day. The program is
administered by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture through the South Dakota Department
of Education’s Child and Adult Nutrition
Services.
“We’re very excited for the agencies chosen to
participate. Their applications reflect a
sincere commitment to helping students develop
healthy eating habits for a lifetime,” said
Sandra Kangas, who oversees the Child and Adult
Nutrition Services program in South Dakota. For
more information and a list of additional sites
go to: (Jacci link to the below)
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program aims to
increase student consumption of fresh fruits and
vegetables, introduce students to a variety of
fresh fruits and vegetables, and encourage
students to make healthier choices in their
diets. According to federal guidelines, priority
is given to agencies with 50 percent or more
students receiving free or reduced-price meals
and those with a non-federal partnership in
place.
The additional sites for 2008-09 include:
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Bennett County School District – Martin
Grade School
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Children’s Care Hospital and School, Sioux
Falls
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Enemy Swim Day School, Waubay
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Eureka School District
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Flandreau Indian School
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Frederick Area School District
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Gayville-Volin School District
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Hyde School District – Highmore Elementary
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Kadoka Area School District – Interior
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Kadoka Area School District – Kadoka
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Kadoka Area School District – Midland
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Pierre School District – McKinley Elementary
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Rapid City School District – Canyon Lake
Elementary
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Rapid City School District – General Beadle
Elementary
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Rapid City School District – Knollwood
Elementary
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Sioux Falls Children’s Home – Loving School
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Sisseton School District – Middle School
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Sisseton School District – Westside
Elementary
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Spearfish School District – Middle School
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Spearfish School District – West Elementary
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Summit School District – Summit Elementary
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Volunteers of America-Dakotas – Group Care
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Wagner School District
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Wall School District
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White Lake School District – White Lake
Elementary
The
federal government recently gave all states
access to the program. Previously, South Dakota
had access only through a limited number of
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Resources |
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Bullying Prevention Program |
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Olweus Bullying Prevention Program now has
trainers available to SD schools. This program
is a model program that has been effective at
reducing bullying behaviors in schools. To stop
bullying, the issue needs to be addressed at all
levels of the student’s experience. This means
that it is addressed at the school wide,
classroom, individual, and community levels.
Because bullying has such wide-ranging effects,
this program is designed for all students.
The goal of the program is to change the norms
around bullying behavior and to restructure the
school setting itself so that bullying is less
likely to occur or be rewarded. The
implementation of the program needs to be seen
as a long-term effort – not something that is
“completed” in a year. More complete information
on this program can be found at
www.clemson.edu/olweus.
For more information on setting up the Olweus
Bullying Prevention Program within your school,
contact Melinda Olson at SE Prevention Resource
Center at 605-335-6474 or
m.olson@voa-dakotas.org; or Dodi Haug at the
NE Prevention Resource Center at 605-884-3516
dodih@humanserviceagency.org. |
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SD Healthy Kids Web-Based Training Modules
Available in the Fall 2008 |
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In
an effort to combat childhood obesity in South
Dakota, modules for improving nutrition and
physical activity policy in schools and
outside-of-school time (OST) programs will be
available this fall on the states’ Healthy SD
website under the Schools Tab (www.healthysd.gov).
Module topics will include implementing
nutrition and physical activity strategies,
creating and sustaining effective polices tools
& resources, and developing partnerships and
advocacy for improved nutrition and physical
activity among our youth.
This project is a joint partnership of the
health department’s Healthy South Dakota
Program, Coordinated School Health Program and
Child and Adult Nutrition Services utilizing
grant funds from the National Governor’s
Association (NGA). Schools and OST programs are
encouraged to access these web-based modules for
use with school and agency staff during
in-services, meetings with parents and community
members, and regional trainings. For more
information, contact Colleen Reinert, SD Dept.
of Health, 773-6189. |
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Lesson For Promoting Fruits And Veggies |
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Teaching materials and tips called the “More
Matters Resource Manual” have been
developed by the Florida Department of Health,
www.Florida.WIC.org. A section on
Worksite Wellness suggests conducting a healthy
snacks workshop for employees, promoting a fruit
or vegetable of the month, coordinating a
contest or challenge, and including motivating
messages at meetings and events.
Preschool and early elementary teachers may find
“Things to Remember When Teaching Young
Children” to be helpful. Tips emphasize being a
role model, children love to repeat things,
emphasize positive ways of talking and acting,
increase opportunities to listen, see, and do,
teach children new things with what they already
know, gradually introduce new words and
concepts, and build self-esteem and pride.
Lessons are provided for preschool, elementary,
teens, adults, and older adults.
Some engaging activities are:
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The Garden Game (children sit in a circle
and are given fruit or vegetable names, they
switch places when a leader calls out two
fruits or vegetables, or all switch when
“tossed salad” is called)
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Make a Garden in a Glove (place damp cotton
balls in the fingers of a plastic glove,
place several seeds in each finger, place in
a window to sprout, cut the tips of the
glove to remove sprouted seeds for
transplanting)
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Who Influences My Fruit and Vegetable
Intake? (list influences, are they negative,
can it be changed to positive)
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Write Your Own Fruit and Veggie Song or Rap.
(use a familiar tune such as “Jingle Bells”
or “This Old Man” to create a rhyme, song,
or cheer)
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Salad Contest (teams make salad from 5
fruits or 5 vegetables for judging as most
colorful, most creative, etc.)
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What Does 4 or 5 Cups Look Like?
(demonstrate with models or actual food,
place 4-5 cups on several plates to show
food throughout a day)
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Kids Gardening |
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Encouraging children to garden increases their
curiosity about tasting what they grow and their
openness to eating more fruits and vegetables.
In addition to encouraging healthful eating,
schools are using gardens to educate on science,
math, language arts, and social studies
concepts. Gardening lessons can cross all age
groups from preschool to older adults.
The
KidsGardening.com website
provides resources on gardening skills,
how-to’s, lesson plans and projects to help
children learn from the garden. Educators sign
up for the Kids Garden Newsletter and others at
www.garden.org/home. Sections of the Kids
Gardening website include classroom projects,
thematic units, classroom stories, activities,
school greenhouse guide, a school garden
registry, parent’s primer, photo contests,
grants, and more. |
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Sun Safety |
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CDC
provides leadership for nationwide efforts to
reduce illness and death caused by skin cancer.
The focus of CDC's efforts is education and
prevention. When in the sun, seek shade, cover
up, get a hat, wear sunglasses, and use
sunscreen. Click here for more information
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/. |
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Physical Education In The U.S. |
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Due
to a high number of requests- Dr. Howell
Wechsler's presentation "Physical Education in
the U.S.: A Status Report from the CDC 2006
School Health Policies and Programs Study" given
at the 2008 NASPE General Session in Ft. Worth,
Texas, is now posted on the NASPE website.
Please visit
www.naspeinfo.org and look under Hot News
Items to download. Dr. Howell Wechsler is the
director of the Division of Adolescent and
School Health (DASH) for the Centers for Disease
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Funding
Opportunities |
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Community
Tobacco Prevention Grant Opportunity |
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The Department of Human Services has a community
tobacco prevention grant available to
communities in South Dakota. Please see the
grant information and forms at this link
http://dhs.sd.gov/ada/publicat.aspx.
The grant DEADLINE
is
May 16, 2008.
The grant is open to any community coalition in
SD who has an interest in tobacco prevention. |
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Safe Routes To
School Application For Funding Deadline June 6,
2008 |
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The
South Dakota Safe Routes to School application
along with qualifying criteria, program ideas
and other resources can be found online at
www.sddot.com/srts/.
The SD SRTS Coordinator is available for free
presentations to those communities interested in
creating their own Safe Routes to School
Program. Time is running out for this first call
for applications! For more information visit
www.sddot.com/srts/ or contact South Dakota
Safe Routes to School Coordinator Angela Olson
at
angela.olson@state.sd.us.
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Highway Safety
Grant |
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Grant applications for federal fiscal year 2009
are due May 16, 2008; funding becomes available
October 1, 2008 – September 30, 2009. For more
information about the grants, view the linked
documents below.
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Upcoming Events |
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National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day |
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National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
(Awareness Day) is a day for communities to
promote positive youth development, resilience,
recovery, and the transformation of mental
health services delivery for children and youth
with serious mental health needs and their
families. Awareness Day raises awareness of
effective programs for children's mental health
needs, demonstrates how children's mental health
initiatives promote positive youth development,
recovery and resilience, and shows how children
with mental health needs thrive in their
communities. Awareness Day will be held on
Thursday, May 8th, 2008. The theme for this
year's national event is Thriving in the
Community, with a special emphasis on high
school youth who receive the services they need
are more likely to have positive outcomes such
as better grades and higher rates of education
and less likely to have negative outcomes such
as involvement with the juvenile and criminal
justice systems.
Click here for more information. |
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Power Panther Tour—Sign Up Today! |
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The
Power Panther will be touring South Dakota from
the middle of August until the middle of
October. He will stop at schools, outside school
time programs and child care agencies to
encourage children to Eat Smart. Play Hard., and
Move More. Sit Less. The Power Panther Tour is
part of the Team Nutrition grant that CANS
received from USDA. CANS staff and South Dakota
State University Cooperative Extension staff
will travel with the Power Panther costume and
provide a 15-20 minute assembly program to
promote eating smart and playing hard aimed at
children from preschool age to elementary school
age, or just visit your school during the
breakfast or lunch period. The Power Panther
especially appeals to young children up to about
3rd grade. To sign up for a visit from the Power
Panther, please complete the one page
registration form on our website at
http://www.doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/nutrition/index.asp
and mail or fax it to us at the address provided
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Professional Development |
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For
a complete list of professional development
opportunities, visit
www.southdakotapd.com.
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LifeSkills Training Curriculum Workshops |
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The following Life
Skills Training curriculum workshops will be available for
Teachers & School Counselors, School Nurses, Prevention
Advocates, and Safe & Drug-Free School Coordinators:
- May 5-6 2008
Rapid City, SD
- May 27-28
2008 Sioux Falls, SD
- August 12-13
2008 Aberdeen, SD
Cost is $20.00
per participant. Your District's Title IV funds may be used to
cover expenses such as substitute teacher pay, mileage, etc. An
application has also been made for participants to receive one
graduate/under graduate credit through Augustana College which
will be an additional fee.
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South Dakota Association For Health, Physical Education,
Recreation And Dance (SD AHPERD) Pre-Convention Workshop
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Coordinated School
Health in the Departments of Education and Health will be
hosting the SD AHPERD Pre-convention Workshop An Introduction
to the National Health Education Standards (NHES) – Achieving
Excellence from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. on November 4, 2008 at the
Best Western Ramkota in Pierre, SD. Participants must attend the
pre-convention NHES workshop in order to receive college credit
for the SD AHPERD Convention.
An Introduction to the National Health Education Standards –
Achieving Excellence is designed to provide participants
with an overview of the NHES. Participants will explore ways to
utilize the NHES document to support schools in meeting the
essential goal of enabling students to acquire the knowledge and
skills needed to promote personal, family and community health.
The 2008 SD AHPERD Convention will be held in Pierre November
5-7, 2008 at the Best Western Ramkota. For more information
about the convention go to:
http://sdahperd.sdstate.org/voodoo/confer.htm.
For information about the An Introduction to the National Health
Education Standards – Achieving Excellence pre-conference
session contact the Coordinated School Health staff at
605-773-3261. |
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Credits Approved For Science Based Drug Education Program |
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The following
credits have been approved for the Science Based Drug Education
Program which will be held June 9-12, 2008 at the Mickelson Law
Enforcement Training Center, 1302 E. Hwy 14, Pierre, SD
57501:University of Sioux Falls approved 2 Semester hours for
Undergraduate and (EDU 1980) and 2 Semester hours for Graduate
Credit (EDU 545 E), Certification Board for Alcohol and Drug
Professionals has approved 28 hours of Continuing Professional
Training, the SD Board of Counselor Examiners has approved 26.0
clock hours of continuing education credit , the South Dakota
Board of Social Work Examiners has approved 2.8 CEU's or 28
Contact hours. And the Dept. of Education has approved 1 renewal
credit.
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