Fact Sheet
Need some handouts to recruit more group members, stats to convince your principal, or a quick summary to pass along to the local media?
Check out the Students Taking Charge fact sheets for the latest on nutrition, physical activity, advocacy, and healthy schools. You'll learn what these things are, why they matter, and how to transform these facts into actions in your home, school, or community.
Let's do a quick True and False to see if you know your STC facts!
- If you can sing while you're working out, you're doing vigorous physical activity
- 80% of high school students eat breakfast in the morning.
- Between school and homework, most high school students put in a 40-hour work week.
Check out the Students Taking Charge fact sheets to see if you're right!
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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.
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!