About the Grant
Carol M. White Physical Education Grant
A consortium of school districts in ESU 4 has been awarded a three-year
$640,904 Carol M. White Physical Education grant by the United States
Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. The funds
will be divided as follows: Year 1 - $278,996, Year 2 - $181,653, and
Year 3 - $180,255.
The grant proposal was written by Margaret McInteer and Mitzi Hoback of
ESU 4, Judi Carter of Falls City Public Schools, and Linda Engel of
Nebraska City Public Schools. ESU 4 will be the fiscal agent of the
grant, and Judi Carter will be the project director.
Five school districts (Auburn, Falls City, Johnson/Brock, Lewiston, and
Nebraska City) participated in a 2003 grant pilot project. Teachers
from these veteran schools will be joined by five novice districts
(Humboldt/Table Rock/Steinauer, Palmyra/Bennett, Pawnee City, Southeast
Consolidated, and Tecumseh). The partners represent approximately 5290
students, and the distribution of funds will be equitably based on
student populations of individual districts.
Project name: Path to Total Body Wellness
Goals:
Teachers will
develop, expand, and enhance standards-based curriculum and assessment,
model healthy fitness and nutrition skills and habits, and change their
instruction to reflect best practice.
Students will
understand, improve, and main their physical well-being as they receive
instruction, participate in activities, analyze assessment results, and
set personal goals promoting increased physical activity and good
nutrition habits which establish wellness.
In Year 1 of the grant, the novice physical education teachers will
complete the activities that the veteran teachers did in the 2003
grant. The veteran physical education teachers will continue the
activities begun in the previous project and will share their
expertise. Year 2 of the project will concentrate on health curriculum,
focusing especially on nutrition. During the third project year,
fitness and nutrition activities will be coordinated leading to Total
Body Wellness.
Some of the activities are as follows:
Teachers:
become familiar with physical education and health standards
develop and align physical education and health curriculum with standards
learn to use tools
for technological assessment, including Fitnessgram software and video
cameras for video assessment
learn to use pedometers and other tools for wellness
plan instructional changes
plan community outreach projects
Students:
determine baseline personal fitness levels
set personal fitness and nutrition SMART goals
develop personal fitness action plans for fitness, nutrition, and total body wellness
share progress with parents
conduct formative and summative evaluation of personal fitness
increase activity minutes in physical education classes
monitor out-of-class activity levels by keeping a fitness log
take part in
nutrition activities, such as planning menus, checking nutritional
values of food items, completing What Do You Eat? interdisciplinary
units, keeping daily food intake logs
complete community
outreach projects, such as making community step guides, adopting a
parent/adult partner for Pedometer Day, presenting lessons learned at
community meetings
Budget items:
substitute teachers to replace physical education and health teachers during training days
travel expenses for required attendance at the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools annual meeting each year
pedometers, electronic scales, and heart rate monitors for every building
laptop. Personal
Digital Assistants (PDAs), software, video cameras, TVs, VCRs, and
LCD projectors for each building
$20 per student allowance for Tools for Fitness
$15 per student allowance for Tools for Skill Building
$10 per student allowance for Tools for Nutrition
curriculum materials
professional development and services (training consultants, webmaster, external evaluator, site managers)
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