Program implementation and/or teaching skills – Advancing Ideas 4 School Health

PATHS Curriculum Initiative Description: The present study examined how teachers’ psychological experiences of burnout and efficacy, as well as perceptions of curriculum supports (e.g., coaching), were associated with their implementation dosage and quality of Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies, a social-emotional curriculum. Study Results: Teacher burnout was negatively associated and efficacy was positively associated with implementation […]

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Initiative Description: Nutrition in-service professional development to increase self-efficacy, outcome expectancies, outcome values and intentions to teach nutrition education. The lessons contained material on the contents and benefits of the food groups, eating based on the food groups, reading food labels, body image, and surviving fast food restaurants and the school cafeteria Study Results: The […]

Environmental Change
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Team Nutrition https://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/team-nutrition Initiative Description: Team Nutrition (TN) is an educational and promotional initiative developed by the US Department of Agriculture to change children’s eating behaviors through social marketing techniques Study Results: Importance of local coordinators to support and create a bridge between teachers and cafeteria staff and to forge links with key external partners. […]

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AFLY5 https://www.bristol.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/projects/afl/ Initiative Description: AFLY5 was a large cluster randomized controlled trial that was conducted in 60 primary schools in the UK. The intervention included 16 detailed lesson plans and 10 parent-child interactive components. Study Results: Finding a project champion within the school would enhance intervention effectiveness. Embedding diet and physical activity content across the […]

Community Partnership
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Initiative Description: Fun ‘n healthy in Moreland provided schools with evidence, school research data and part-time support from a Community Development Worker to develop health-promoting strategies. Study Results: Better policy implementation, regarding PA & healthy eating in schools increased parents engagement, and resources, improved child self-rated health, increased fruit, vegetable and water consumption. Reference: Waters, […]

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I am Moving I am Learning/Choosy Kids© (IMIL/CK) https://choosykids.com/products/im-moving-im-learning Initiative Description: curriculum recommended by Head Start (HS) for education in nutrition, physical activity, and healthy lifestyle habits. An academic-community partnership included a medical school, HS program, public school district, and the state health department to help implement the program. Study Results: Community-based participatory research principles […]

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| Physical Activity (PA), Program implementation and/or teaching skills

Initiative Description: Participatory-based, competency-/skill-building professional development workshop for physical education (PE) teachers on the use of physical activity (PA) promotion practices (e.g., eliminating lines, small-sided games) and students’ moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) Study Results: Increased motor content and lessons taught outdoors, reduced activities with lines), with three more teacher practices trending in the desired direction […]

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| Physical Activity (PA), Moderate-Vigorous PA, Program implementation and/or teaching skills

The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) https://catch.org/ Initiative Description: Intervention components included PE curricular materials, professional development (in-service) sessions, and on-site consultations with teachers. Study Results: Increased MVPA. Classroom teachers improved physical activity relatively more than PE specialists. Reference: McKenzie, T. L., Stone, E. J., Feldman, H. A., Epping, J. N., Yang, […]

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Initiative Description: Detailed schedules, professional development training, on-site booster sessions, and technical assistance for afterschool programs. Study Results: increased the skills of staff related to creating PA-promoting ASP environments, and these changes led to improvements in children’s MVPA. Reference: Hughey, S. M., Weaver, R. G., Saunders, R., Webster, C., & Beets, M. W. (2014). Process […]

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Initiative Description: A CSPAP Professional Development program constructed as a multiple-step, yearlong process for PE teachers to develop a school culture conducive to promoting and providing school Physical Activity opportunities beyond PE. Study Results: Intervention teachers reported significantly more PA offerings during school (3.35 vs. 2.37) and that involve staff. Reference: Carson, R. L., Castelli, […]