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School Wellness Weekly
October 19, 2022
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Registration Open! Election Day Professional Learning on November 8
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Join the Office of School Wellness Programs and your peers on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8. We are offering more than 30 online professional learning sessions for Physical Education and Health Education, as well as school wellness-related programs, on topics such as mental health, mentoring in coaching, food and nutrition education, and many others!
Live webinars are offered by Office of School Wellness Programs content specialists and trusted partner organizations--Advocates for Youth, Little Flower Yoga, Special Olympics New York, Teens for Food Justice, and U.S. Soccer Foundation are only a few of the many awesome partners we’ve brought together for Election Day learning.
Educators may register to attend one, two, or three live, 90-minute webinars, offered in morning and afternoon sessions:
- Session 1: 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
- Session 2: 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
- Session 3: 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Attendees will receive 90 minutes of CTLE for each eligible session.
We hope to see you there!
Photo: Elementary teachers Rebecca Infante (left) and Ariel Martinez, Office of School Wellness Programs health education event, 2019. Photo by Monica Fuentes.
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More Professional Learning: Stay In the Loop
We’ve added new professional learning opportunities for October and November to our Professional Learning Catalog (opens in new window)! Check out new live webinars like Health Education Basics, PE Basics, Strategies for Inclusion (for including students with disabilities in general PE), and virtual office hours for support with Adapted Physical Education and IEPs.
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Teachers, School Administrators, and Coaches: Sign Up for Teachers & Leaders
Be sure you are subscribed to our bimonthly Teachers & Leaders edition of School Wellness Weekly, where we share updates on live and on-demand webinars, workshops, and events specifically designed for educators.
Follow these steps to receive the Teachers and Leaders edition:
- Scroll to the bottom of this email, click “Update Profile”
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Follow the directions emailed to you. (Note: The email will go to the email address you used to subscribe to School Wellness Weekly.)
- In the "Job Title" box of the "Update your profile" page, be sure to list Teacher, Educator, Coach, AP or Principal.
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Two New York City Public Schools Win “America’s Healthiest Schools” Award
-- Muscota New School (6M314), Manhattan
-- The SEEALL Academy (20K180), Brooklyn
"America's Healthiest Schools" is Alliance for a Healthier Generation's (opens in new window) annual recognition program that celebrates schools for implementing policies and practices to promote health and well-being. Alliance for a Healthier Generation works with schools, youth-serving organizations, businesses, and communities to empower kids to develop lifelong healthy habits by ensuring the environments that surround them provide and promote good health.
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PE Success Story: Partnering For a New Fitness Room at George Westinghouse High School
Another shout-out: This one to George Westinghouse High School in Brooklyn (13K605), where the Physical Education department and school administration transformed an underused space into a working fitness/weight room, complete with a traverse rock wall, monkey bars, and medicine ball stations.
PE staff and school leaders collaborated with the Office of School Wellness Programs and Bigger Faster Stronger (opens in new window) on this project, one of the ways in which the school prioritizes physical education and the health and well-being of its students. Students will use the room for activities that cover a variety of PE content, such as obstacle course racing, strength and conditioning, yoga, kickboxing, and even outdoor pursuits. For more information on Bigger Faster Stronger opportunities, contact John Rowbotham at john@bfsmail.com.
Photo courtesy George Westinghouse High School.
Free Rising New York Road Runners Activities to Build Physical Competencies
Build your students’ athletic skills, including endurance, balance, strength, and object striking, to support their enjoyment of any sport: Join Rising New York Road Runners (opens in new window), a free resource featuring the PLAYBuilder (opens in new window) online tool with 1,000+ activities and 100+ videos to improve students’ physical competencies and skills related to your specific sport. Program Pass participants in Rising New York Road Runners also qualify for the annual Developmental Track and Field Series to be held in Spring 2023. Get details in the program brochure (opens in new window).
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New Elementary School Nutrition Education Pacing Guide Available
The Pacing Guide includes links to free supplemental resources and notes for teachers to enhance recommended nutrition lessons and provide additional skill development opportunities for students. Stay tuned for the release of the complete K-5 Pacing Guide by early November 2022!
Get Funding for Your Identity-Based Student Clubs: Apply by October 28
The NYCDOE is accepting applications from schools to receive funding for identity-based student clubs for the 2023 fiscal year. Identity-based clubs—including, but not limited to, clubs that support topics on gender and sexuality, race, ethnicity, or religion—promote respect for diversity in schools and provide a community for students who are part of marginalized groups.
Interested schools must have their club advisor(s) complete an application (opens in new window) by Friday, October 28 for each club they would like to receive funding for. The number of clubs for which a school can apply to receive funds is based on each school's total student enrollment; more information can be found at the top of the application. Note that schools that applied last school year must reapply for the 2023 fiscal year.
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Harvest Day, P.S. 321 (2016). Photo: Kirsten Luce
Find Out What a School Wellness Council Can Do For Your School
Would you like to organize a wellness fair in your school? Find and share social-emotional learning information with your students and their families? Host a kid- and budget-friendly cooking demonstration? Plan a field trip around physical activity? A School Wellness Council (opens in new window) can help you get these and other activities off the ground—with the help of like-minded members of your school community.
School Wellness Councils bring school staff, students, and parents/caregivers together to promote a healthy school community. Volunteer members work to create health and wellness activities, events, programs, and policies. The NYC Department of Education Citywide Wellness Policy (opens in new window) strongly encourages all New York City public schools to “establish and/or sustain a School Wellness Council.”
With the school year up and running, now is a great time to form or reengage your wellness council.
Last Chance! Apply for the Grow-NY Youth Competition by October 21
Applications are due Friday, October 21, for the Grow New York Youth Competition (opens in new window), where student finalists will pitch their food system and/or agriculture-related business idea to a panel of youth judges at the competition in Syracuse, New York, November 15-16, 2022. The first-place winner will receive $2,000 and product development assistance.
Want to attend for free? New York Agriculture in the Classroom is offering 50 free student registrations per day of the Grow-NY Competition. Registrations codes will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. Educators interested in bringing youth, including students, FFA chapters, and homeschool groups: email Sarah Hale at s.hale@cornell.edu with the following information: preferred date (November 15 or 16, 2022), number of students, number of adults, school name, grades or ages of students.
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