Healthy Schools Act TipsD.C. Healthy Schools Act

Healthy Schools Act Tips

Welcome to a new communications tool that highlights how schools are putting the Healthy Schools Act into Action — with information on the Act, school spotlights, and tips.

The Healthy Schools Act Tips are brought to you in partnership by the Mayor’s Healthy Youth and Schools Commission, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, D.C. Hunger Solutions and many other community organizations dedicated to improving the health and wellness of District children.

If would like to share a story about a D.C. school that deserves recognition for its work to improve school wellness, physical activity, nutrition, or environmental literacy, please send an email to Alyia Smith-Parker at asmith-parker@dchunger.org.

(Files are pdf.)

2014

#5 - D.C. Healthy Schools Act’s nutrition provisions

#4 - Summer Meals Edition

#3 - National School Breakfast Week

#2 - Healthy Schools Act Implementation: How are we doing?; statistics on the 2012-2013 School Health Profiles

#1 - School Garden Grants

2013
#7 - Growing Healthy Schools Week

#6 - Improving Health and Wellness in Schools

#5 - Meeting the Act’s physical education requirement; Potomac Lighthouse PCS, Bruce Monroe Elementary School at Park View

#4 - D.C. Free Summer Meals Program

#3 - D.C. schools going green; D.C.’s Environmental Literacy Plan; Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter, Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School, Woodrow Wilson High School (2013 Green Ribbon School Winners)

#2 - Promote healthy eating, solicit feedback; First Lady’s Lunchtime Challenge; Organizations working with schools and families - American Heart Association, Turning the Page, Revolution Foods