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Students across the country are putting their passion for eating right, being active and living healthy into making their schools healthier places. Join them. Use this site to get ideas, plan a project and share your success!

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Brainstorming as a school

Sometimes a group of 6 or 8 students can have hard time deciding how to make their school a healthier place.  While surveys, interviews, and focus groups can all help, one school in Kansas decided to bring their whole student body together for two Students Taking Charge forums.

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Seeing is believing

Are you getting a lot of resistance from your principal or school nutrition director?  Does it seem like you're just not speaking their language?  Or do they not understand what your changes will really look like?  Find out how Northampton High School took their school leaders to visit another high school that has already put their ideas into action! 

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Quick Fact:

So does ketchup count as a fruit?

One-third of the vegetable servings eaten by youth aged 13 to 18 are in the form of potato chips and french fries. The figure climbs to 40% among African-American students.


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Transforming School Breakfast!

Feb 24, 2011

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Do you want to improve school breakfast in your middle or high school?  Check out the new Project Templates to help you bring better foods to the table, energize your cafeteria space, and promote school breakfast to your classmates.  There's even a handy survey that makes it easy to identify the reasons that your friends are skipping out on breakfast at school.  Make breakfast the easy choice at your school!

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STC students in Kentucky run a 5K

Beyond Dodge Ball: Reinvent PE for your high school!

Feb 03, 2011

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PE is the place to explore ways to stay physically active for life.  Has your gym class covered things like yoga, dance, running, and being active outdoors?  Or does it mainly focus on competitive sports like baseball or dodge ball where you need a team, athletic skill, and a good aim to have fun?  The best PE class is the one that allows you and your friends to discover creative ways to stay healthy and fit that build on your interests while challenging you to be stronger, faster, more balanced, and more active every day.  How can you improve PE at your high school?

 

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Get Text Alerts from Students Taking Charge

Jan 20, 2011

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wondering if u get txts from stc gr8 info to help ur school b healthier 2mro.  Need a translation?

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