Resources for Teachers
Non Food Rewards
Useful Link
How a Great Teacher Cultivates Veggies (and Kids) in the Bronx
He and his students made bow ties out of Scrabble tiles. His Bronx classroom, a refurbished school library, has more plants than desks.
He calls the room his National Health, Wellness and Learning Center. It's got tower gardens, gleaming cabinets and counters, an industrial sink and a new, mobile cooking station.... [more]
American Heart Association:
Fit-Friendly Worksites
Check.Control.Change. Blood Pressure Program
Fit-Friendly Worksites
Check.Control.Change. Blood Pressure Program
Billion Mile Race
Activate your school
$500 Grants available, deadline is February
Other Links
Healthy Active Arkansas
Kendrick Fincher Hydration for Life (Kendrick was an 8th grader in Rogers who died from heat stroke – football practice – his parents set up this education site and foundation to try to educate others and prevent this from happening to other children)
Rethink Your Drink education materials/action steps
SSBs & obesity fact sheet
Sweet Deals” School Fundraising Can Be Healthy and Profitable
Special Olympics Arkansas:
Unified Sports
A Guide to Becoming a Project UNIFY School
Contacts: Camie Powell and Jennifer Grantham
UAMS and the Blue and You Foundation
Yoga and Mindfulness Resources
Yoga in School, Jonesboro, Arkansas:
School-Based Yoga Programs in the United States: A Survey:
Teaching Tolerance
US Schools Turn to Yoga, Meditation instead of Detention, Suspension