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Wellness and Academic Success: From Policy to Action Conference On-Line Proceedings

April 30th / May 1st, 2007

Excerpts from the presenters …

"If childhood obesity/adult obesity continues at the rate it is going now, by the year 2020 — 20% of our healthcare costs will be devoted to fighting obesity." Pat Birkenshaw

"Our vision is simple. We want kids to learn now how to be healthy and to put that knowledge into action for a lifetime. " Diana Fox

"The goal was to encourage students to seek balance in their lives. Balance of eating healthy foods, being active, working hard in school, and showing every kid that you don't have to be a star athelete, or a star athelete in the making, to be fit and to be active." Dr. Calvin Johnson

"We've proven at McComb if we can get them at 5 years of age at a 3-year-old developmental level — they spend 2 years in Developmental Kindergarten with us — we can catch them up. They start 1st grade at 7- years-old, sure they have been retained for a year, but they have made that all up. They're all passing, they're not getting into Special Ed — because we took 1 extra year to get them ready." Dr. Pat Cooper

"What if you want to buy food that has been grown, raised, harvested, processed, or otherwise made in PA? Look for the Pennsylvania Preferred logo. It's a logo of the Department of Agriculture that gives you some assurance as a consumer that you really are eating homegrown food." Cheryl Cook

Day One — Session One:
Overview of Local Wellness Policies and Resources

Pat Birkenshaw
Chief — Division of Food and Nutrition, Pennsylvania Department of Education
Download Ms. Birkenshaw's PowerPoint presentation
Listen to excerpt from Pat's presentation
Listen to an extended excerpt from Pat's presentation

Overview of PA Action for Healthy Kids

Diana Fox
Chair — Action for Health Kids
Director of Prevention and Early Detection — American Cancer Society
Download Ms. Fox's PowerPoint presentation
Listen to an extended excerpt from Diana's presentation

Announcement of Governor's Fitness Challenge Winners

Dr. Calvin Johnson
Secretary of Health — Pennsylvania Department of Health
URL for PDE press release
Listen to a short excerpt from Dr. Johnson's speech
Listen to an extended excerpt from Dr. Johnson's speech

Mount Pleasant Area Junior High School — Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County
Walker Township Elementary School — Juniata County
Peters Elementary School — Washington Township, Lehigh County

Keynote Speech: A Coordinated School Health Plan

Dr. Pat Cooper
Superintendent — McComb School District, McComb, MS
Download the McComb School District Wellness Policy
Download "A Safety Net 2007" DVD (produced by the McComb School District)
Listen to a short excerpt from Dr. Cooper's keynote
Listen to an extended excerpt from Dr. Cooper's keynote

Session Two
Grandma Was Right ... You Are What You Eat

Cheryl Cook
Deputy Secretary, Marketing and Economic Development— Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
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Listen to a short excerpt from Cheryl's presentation
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Administrative Support for Local Wellness Policies and Promoting Student Health Panel

Dana Cannon
School Nurse — Charleroi Area School District
Listen to an extended excerpt from Dana's Q & A

Beth Delay
Health and Physical Education Instructional Supervisor — Pocono Mountain School District
Listen to an extended excerpt from Beth's Q & A

Mary Rochford
Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Educational Services — Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Listen to an extended excerpt from Mary's Q & A

Karen Sick
Food Service Director — Southern Tioga School District
Listen to an extended excerpt from Karen's Q & A