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- 2010-11 Height and Weight Reports Available
- State Program Highlights
- New Resources Available for Implementing
CDC’s School Health Guidelines
- Purchase The Physical Educator’s Guide to Successful Grant Writing

2010-11 Height and Weight Reports Available

Height and weight data from the 2010-11 school years is now available. Click here for the summary or the full report. School specific data has been sent to participating schools. With a new school year starting it is important that schools begin entering height and weight information on Infinite Campus.

State Program Highlights

The Program Development and Translation Team in CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO) worked collaboratively with 805-funded state health departments to create State Program Highlights, a collection of current state activities related to DNPAO’s recommended strategies to prevent and control obesity and other chronic diseases through healthful eating and physical activity. These documents can be found here.

New Resources Available for Implementing CDC’s School Health Guidelines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) is pleased to announce the release of newly developed resources to help implement the School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (Guidelines), published in September 2011.

The public-use materials include:

• Implementing the Guidelines presentation (with narrator notes and talking points for each slide; for use in meetings, continuing education programs, training of the trainers, and conferences)
• Facilitator’s Guide for the presentation (including handouts and step-by-step instructions for delivering the presentation and implementing professional development activities)
• Frequently Asked Questions for the guidelines, presentation, and the facilitator’s guide
• Reference List (providing scientific evidence for the information provided in the presentation)

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Purchase The Physical Educator’s Guide to Successful Grant Writing by Louis E. Bowers, Ph.D. With budgets getting tighter, there is no better time for this resources which provides the guidance, instruction and tools you need to understand, find, write, secure and manage grants. To order go to http://www.naspeinfo.org/shop or call 1-800-321-0789.