Working with Schools

School Culture…The Big Picture

Who Makes the Decisions?

Local Control

The Players

Healthy Children Learn Better

Health Risk Behaviors & Academic Grades NC Middle Schools 2011 YRBS

9

23 2519

47

32

3

16

3338

32

5154

4

27

48

40

28

58

65

9

43

61

50

40

68 68

13

0

20

40

60

80

Cigarette use(current)

Alcohol use(current)

TV watching3+ hrs/day

(school days)

Other screentime 3+hrs/day

(school days)

Does notmeet physical

activityguidelines

Sexualintercourse

(ever)

Needed medtreatment for

a suicideattempt in

past 12months

Mostly A's

Mostly B's

Mostly C's

Mostly D/F's

Health Risk Behaviors & Academic Grades NC High Schools 2011 YRBS

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Common Core….the mixing bowl

Visual ArtChorusWorld Languages HealthPhysical Education PhysicsKeyboarding Social

StudiesHistory GradesBus Duty Field TripsSchool Pictures

Intramurals

NC ranks No. 48 in teacher salary among the 50 states and District of Columbia, paying an average $45,947. The U.S. average is $56,383.Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/02/28/2715461/dome-nc-ranks-near-bottom-in-school.html#storylink=cpy

NC Healthy Schools

Health/PE/Middle School Athletics/Title IV

HIV

Surveillance

• YRBS

• Profiles

Policy Monitoring

• Healthy Activity Children Policy

• Healthy Youth Act

• Gfeller Waller

• Safe Schools Act

Title V Abstinence

Coordinated School Health

Family &CommunityInvolvement

PhysicalEducation &

PhysicalActivity

Nutrition Services

Counseling, Psychological & Social Services

ComprehensiveSchoolHealth

Education

HealthySchool

Environment

School-site Health

Promotion forStaff

School Health

Services

Working with Schools…It’s Knot Impossible

It’s Knot Impossible

• Place the rope on the table in front of you

• With one end of the rope in each hand

• Tie a knot in the rope without letting go

• It’s Knot Impossible

Remember the Goals

Learn from each other

Schools: Educating all NC Youth

DPH: Improving the health of North Carolinians

Getting “in” to Schools

• Build Relationships

• Learn the Culture

• Remember DPI is here to help

Relationships“Make them your friend before you make an ask.”

Mike Ward (Former State Superintendent)

Relationships• Start at the bottom

• Build not threaten

• Build on existing relationships

Learn the culture

• Who currently uses the school• Who are the gatekeepers• Who will have to do the work to make this

work• What provisions will be made for them• You are one of many groups wanting to

get in front of a captive audience, why you?

Make a Friend

Plan Jointly